OAVS English Grammar: Set 5
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1. A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person:
- A) Anecdote
- B) Antidote
- C) Allegory
- D) Fable
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Answer: A) Anecdote
Explanation: An Anecdote is a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
2. A post with little work but high salary:
- A) Honorary
- B) Sinecure
- C) Voluntary
- D) Tenure
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Answer: B) Sinecure
Explanation: A Sinecure is a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit.
3. To give up one's authority or throne formally:
- A) Abdicate
- B) Abduct
- C) Usurp
- D) Abolish
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Answer: A) Abdicate
Explanation: To Abdicate is to fail to fulfill or undertake a responsibility, or to formally renounce one's throne.
4. A mild or indirect expression substituted for an offensive or harsh one:
- A) Eulogy
- B) Euphemism
- C) Euphoria
- D) Epilogue
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Answer: B) Euphemism
Explanation: A Euphemism is a mild or indirect word substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt.
5. A person who believes that pleasure is the most important thing in life:
- A) Ascetic
- B) Stoic
- C) Hedonist
- D) Philistine
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Answer: C) Hedonist
Explanation: A Hedonist is a person who believes that the pursuit of pleasure is the most important thing in life.
6. A person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging:
- A) Vagrant
- B) Itinerant
- C) Migrant
- D) Exile
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Answer: A) Vagrant
Explanation: A Vagrant is a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.
7. One who believes in no government and therefore incites disorder in a State:
- A) Monarchist
- B) Anarchist
- C) Dictator
- D) Autocrat
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Answer: B) Anarchist
Explanation: An Anarchist is a person who believes in or tries to bring about anarchy (absence of government).
8. A partner in crime:
- A) Alibi
- B) Accomplice
- C) Acquaintance
- D) Adversary
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Answer: B) Accomplice
Explanation: An Accomplice is a person who helps another commit a crime.
9. An unexpected piece of good fortune:
- A) Windfall
- B) Bounty
- C) Catastrophe
- D) Miracle
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Answer: A) Windfall
Explanation: A Windfall is a piece of unexpected good fortune, typically one that involves receiving a large amount of money.
10. Those who go onto someone else's land without the owner's permission:
- A) Intruders
- B) Trespassers
- C) Burglars
- D) Vagrants
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Answer: B) Trespassers
Explanation: Trespassers are people who enter someone's land or property without permission.
11. Intentional damage to arrest or stop production:
- A) Sabotage
- B) Treason
- C) Mutiny
- D) Espionage
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Answer: A) Sabotage
Explanation: Sabotage is the act of deliberately destroying, damaging, or obstructing something, especially for political or military advantage.
12. A record of historical events, arranged year by year:
- A) Chronicle
- B) Annals
- C) Almanac
- D) Archive
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Answer: B) Annals
Explanation: Annals are a record of events year by year.
13. A broad road bordered with trees:
- A) Boulevard
- B) Alley
- C) Avenue
- D) Highway
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Answer: A) Boulevard
Explanation: A Boulevard is a wide street in a town or city, typically one lined with trees.
14. A place where Jews worship according to their religion:
- A) Mosque
- B) Temple
- C) Synagogue
- D) Chapel
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Answer: C) Synagogue
Explanation: A Synagogue is the building where a Jewish assembly or congregation meets for religious worship and instruction.
15. Doing something according to one's own free will:
- A) Obligatory
- B) Compulsory
- C) Voluntarily
- D) Mandatory
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Answer: C) Voluntarily
Explanation: Voluntarily means doing something of one's own free will, without being forced or paid.
16. A place that provides refuge or safety:
- A) Sanatorium
- B) Asylum
- C) Orphanage
- D) Arsenal
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Answer: B) Asylum
Explanation: An Asylum is a place that offers shelter, protection, and safety.
17. A person who gambles or bets:
- A) Punter
- B) Usurer
- C) Bookmaker
- D) Broker
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Answer: A) Punter
Explanation: A Punter is a person who gambles, places a bet, or makes a risky investment.
18. An abandoned child of unknown parents who is found by somebody:
- A) Orphan
- B) Foundling
- C) Siblings
- D) Juvenile
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Answer: B) Foundling
Explanation: A Foundling is an infant that has been abandoned by its parents and is discovered and cared for by others.
19. Parts of a country behind the coast or a river bank:
- A) Isthmus
- B) Peninsula
- C) Hinterland
- D) Archipelago
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Answer: C) Hinterland
Explanation: A Hinterland is the often uncharted areas beyond a coastal district or a river's banks.
20. A written statement about someone's character, usually provided by an employer:
- A) Testimonial
- B) Memorandum
- C) Manifesto
- D) Affidavit
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Answer: A) Testimonial
Explanation: A Testimonial is a formal statement testifying to someone's character and qualifications.
21. A system of naming things, especially in science:
- A) Taxonomy
- B) Nomenclature
- C) Terminology
- D) Glossary
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Answer: B) Nomenclature
Explanation: Nomenclature is the devising or choosing of names for things, especially in a science or other discipline.
22. Pertaining to or relating to cattle:
- A) Feline
- B) Canine
- C) Bovine
- D) Equine
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Answer: C) Bovine
Explanation: Bovine means relating to or affecting cattle.
23. To look at someone in an angry or threatening way:
- A) Glower
- B) Glance
- C) Glimpse
- D) Stare
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Answer: A) Glower
Explanation: To Glower is to have an angry or sullen look on one's face; to scowl.
24. To confirm or give support to a statement, theory, or finding with the help of evidence:
- A) Contradict
- B) Corroborate
- C) Fabricate
- D) Validate
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Answer: B) Corroborate
Explanation: Corroborate means to confirm or give support to a statement, theory, or finding.
25. The action of delaying or postponing something:
- A) Acceleration
- B) Procrastination
- C) Execution
- D) Delegation
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Answer: B) Procrastination
Explanation: Procrastination is the action of delaying or postponing something, often intentionally and habitually.
26. A scale used for measuring the strength of an earthquake:
- A) Celsius
- B) Fahrenheit
- C) Richter
- D) Kelvin
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Answer: C) Richter
Explanation: The Richter scale is a numerical scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake.
27. A large group of girls or women:
- A) Swarm
- B) Bevy
- C) Pack
- D) Shoal
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Answer: B) Bevy
Explanation: A Bevy is a large group of people or things of a particular kind, historically referring to maidens or women.
28. An exceptional or unusually gifted young person:
- A) Genius
- B) Prodigy
- C) Novice
- D) Amateur
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Answer: B) Prodigy
Explanation: A Prodigy is a person, especially a young one, endowed with exceptional qualities or abilities.
29. A person who works for an employer for a fixed period of time in order to learn a trade:
- A) Professional
- B) Novice
- C) Apprentice
- D) Veteran
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Answer: C) Apprentice
Explanation: An Apprentice is a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages.
30. The state or quality of being holy, sacred, or saintly:
- A) Sanctity
- B) Blasphemy
- C) Sacrilege
- D) Profanity
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Answer: A) Sanctity
Explanation: Sanctity is the state or quality of being holy, sacred, or saintly.
31. An underground place for storing wine or other provisions:
- A) Attic
- B) Cellar
- C) Pantry
- D) Wardrobe
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Answer: B) Cellar
Explanation: A Cellar is a room below ground level in a house, typically one used for storing wine or coal.
32. The branch of medical science dealing with the classification of diseases:
- A) Pathology
- B) Oncology
- C) Nosology
- D) Neurology
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Answer: C) Nosology
Explanation: Nosology is the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of diseases.
33. One who is not concerned with right or wrong:
- A) Immoral
- B) Amoral
- C) Moral
- D) Ethical
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Answer: B) Amoral
Explanation: Amoral means lacking a moral sense; unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something.
34. The act of calling upon God or any other power for help or protection:
- A) Invocation
- B) Revocation
- C) Provocation
- D) Convocation
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Answer: A) Invocation
Explanation: Invocation is the action of invoking something or someone for assistance or as an authority.
35. One who has become physically or psychologically dependent on a substance or behavior:
- A) Addict
- B) Novice
- C) Ascetic
- D) Stoic
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Answer: A) Addict
Explanation: An Addict is a person who is addicted to a particular substance, typically an illegal drug.
36. A succession of rulers belonging to one family:
- A) Democracy
- B) Dynasty
- C) Dictatorship
- D) Oligarchy
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Answer: B) Dynasty
Explanation: A Dynasty is a line of hereditary rulers of a country.
37. To cut something into two pieces:
- A) Sever
- B) Sow
- C) Sew
- D) Suture
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Answer: A) Sever
Explanation: To Sever means to divide by cutting or slicing, especially suddenly and forcibly.
38. A flat metal or porcelain plate fixed on a wall as an ornament or memorial:
- A) Plaque
- B) Poster
- C) Banner
- D) Billboard
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Answer: A) Plaque
Explanation: A Plaque is an ornamental tablet, typically of metal, porcelain, or wood, that is fixed to a wall or other surface.
39. The act of deceiving somebody in order to make money:
- A) Treason
- B) Fraud
- C) Burglary
- D) Robbery
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Answer: B) Fraud
Explanation: Fraud is wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.
40. A short poem or speech addressed to the spectators after the conclusion of a drama:
- A) Prologue
- B) Dialogue
- C) Monologue
- D) Epilogue
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Answer: D) Epilogue
Explanation: An Epilogue is a section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened.
41. Capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses, and therefore not definite:
- A) Lucid
- B) Ambiguous
- C) Explicit
- D) Transparent
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Answer: B) Ambiguous
Explanation: Ambiguous means open to more than one interpretation; having a double meaning.
42. Something that is capable of being done or carried out:
- A) Feasible
- B) Impracticable
- C) Impossible
- D) Ineffable
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Answer: A) Feasible
Explanation: Feasible means possible to do easily or conveniently.
43. One who is excessively greedy for food:
- A) Gourmet
- B) Voracious
- C) Ascetic
- D) Epicure
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Answer: B) Voracious
Explanation: Voracious means wanting or devouring great quantities of food (or engaging in an activity with great eagerness).
44. An area of land that is controlled by a specific ruler or government:
- A) Province
- B) Dominion
- C) Continent
- D) Peninsula
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Answer: B) Dominion
Explanation: A Dominion is the territory of a sovereign or government.
45. A person who is severely mentally ill:
- A) Psychiatrist
- B) Lunatic
- C) Therapist
- D) Neurologist
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Answer: B) Lunatic
Explanation: A Lunatic is an antiquated term for a person who is mentally ill (from the Latin 'luna' meaning moon).
46. Pertaining to or resembling a dog:
- A) Feline
- B) Bovine
- C) Canine
- D) Equine
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Answer: C) Canine
Explanation: Canine means relating to or resembling a dog or dogs.
47. Pertaining to or resembling a cat:
- A) Feline
- B) Canine
- C) Bovine
- D) Equine
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Answer: A) Feline
Explanation: Feline means relating to or affecting cats or other members of the cat family.
48. Pertaining to or resembling a horse:
- A) Feline
- B) Canine
- C) Bovine
- D) Equine
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Answer: D) Equine
Explanation: Equine means relating to or affecting horses or other members of the horse family.
49. A person who is skilled at writing beautifully:
- A) Cartographer
- B) Lexicographer
- C) Calligrapher
- D) Choreographer
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Answer: C) Calligrapher
Explanation: A Calligrapher is a person who writes beautifully by hand.
50. A connoisseur or lover of good food and drink:
- A) Glutton
- B) Gourmet
- C) Cannibal
- D) Voracious
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Answer: B) Gourmet
Explanation: A Gourmet is a connoisseur of good food; a person with a discerning palate.
51. To secretly store a large amount of goods or money:
- A) Spend
- B) Donate
- C) Hoard
- D) Distribute
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Answer: C) Hoard
Explanation: To Hoard is to amass (money or valued objects) and hide or store away.
52. A large, tall cupboard in which clothes may be hung or stored:
- A) Pantry
- B) Wardrobe
- C) Cellar
- D) Attic
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Answer: B) Wardrobe
Explanation: A Wardrobe is a large, tall cupboard or recess in which clothes may be hung or stored.
53. One who steals or copies from other writers:
- A) Plagiarist
- B) Novelist
- C) Journalist
- D) Lexicographer
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Answer: A) Plagiarist
Explanation: A Plagiarist is a person who uses another person's ideas or work and pretends that it is their own.
54. Men or people living in the same age or time:
- A) Ancestors
- B) Contemporaries
- C) Descendants
- D) Pioneers
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Answer: B) Contemporaries
Explanation: Contemporaries are people living or existing at the same time.
55. Property inherited from one's father or male ancestors:
- A) Matrimony
- B) Patrimony
- C) Alimony
- D) Parsimony
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Answer: B) Patrimony
Explanation: Patrimony is property inherited from one's father or male ancestor.
56. A person who loves wealth but spends as little money as possible:
- A) Spendthrift
- B) Miser
- C) Philanthropist
- D) Altruist
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Answer: B) Miser
Explanation: A Miser is a person who hoards wealth and spends as little money as possible.
57. A person who spends money recklessly and wastefully:
- A) Miser
- B) Spendthrift
- C) Usurer
- D) Banker
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Answer: B) Spendthrift
Explanation: A Spendthrift is a person who spends money in an extravagant, irresponsible way.
58. Extreme or irrational fear of water:
- A) Acrophobia
- B) Hydrophobia
- C) Pyrophobia
- D) Claustrophobia
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Answer: B) Hydrophobia
Explanation: Hydrophobia is an extreme or irrational fear of water.
59. Extreme or irrational fear of enclosed spaces:
- A) Claustrophobia
- B) Acrophobia
- C) Agoraphobia
- D) Xenophobia
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Answer: A) Claustrophobia
Explanation: Claustrophobia is the extreme or irrational fear of confined places.
60. Extreme or irrational fear of heights:
- A) Claustrophobia
- B) Hydrophobia
- C) Acrophobia
- D) Nyctophobia
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Answer: C) Acrophobia
Explanation: Acrophobia is an extreme or irrational fear of heights.
61. Extreme or irrational fear of darkness or the night:
- A) Nyctophobia
- B) Arachnophobia
- C) Pyrophobia
- D) Xenophobia
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Answer: A) Nyctophobia
Explanation: Nyctophobia is an extreme or irrational fear of the night or of darkness.
62. Extreme or irrational fear of spiders:
- A) Cynophobia
- B) Arachnophobia
- C) Nyctophobia
- D) Ophidiophobia
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Answer: B) Arachnophobia
Explanation: Arachnophobia is the extreme or irrational fear of spiders.
63. A solution or remedy for all diseases or difficulties:
- A) Elixir
- B) Panacea
- C) Antidote
- D) Antibiotic
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Answer: B) Panacea
Explanation: A Panacea is a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases.
64. The intentional murder of a king or monarch:
- A) Patricide
- B) Regicide
- C) Homicide
- D) Suicide
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Answer: B) Regicide
Explanation: Regicide is the action of killing a king.
65. The intentional murder of one's sister:
- A) Fratricide
- B) Sororicide
- C) Matricide
- D) Patricide
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Answer: B) Sororicide
Explanation: Sororicide is the act of killing one's own sister.
66. The intentional murder of one's mother:
- A) Patricide
- B) Matricide
- C) Fratricide
- D) Sororicide
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Answer: B) Matricide
Explanation: Matricide is the killing of one's mother.
67. The intentional murder of one's father:
- A) Matricide
- B) Patricide
- C) Uxoricide
- D) Mariticide
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Answer: B) Patricide
Explanation: Patricide is the killing of one's father.
68. The intentional murder of one's brother:
- A) Sororicide
- B) Fratricide
- C) Infanticide
- D) Genocide
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Answer: B) Fratricide
Explanation: Fratricide is the killing of one's brother.
69. To banish someone from their native country:
- A) Repatriate
- B) Expatriate
- C) Immigrate
- D) Emigrate
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Answer: B) Expatriate
Explanation: To Expatriate is to send someone out of their native country or to live outside one's native country.
70. A person who tends to be hopeful and confident about the future:
- A) Pessimist
- B) Optimist
- C) Fatalist
- D) Realist
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Answer: B) Optimist
Explanation: An Optimist is a person who tends to be hopeful and confident about the future or the success of something.
71. An official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses:
- A) Amnesty
- B) Alimony
- C) Patrimony
- D) Acquittal
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Answer: A) Amnesty
Explanation: Amnesty is an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses.
72. A person who makes pots, bowls, and plates from clay:
- A) Carpenter
- B) Potter
- C) Cobbler
- D) Blacksmith
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Answer: B) Potter
Explanation: A Potter is a person who makes pottery (pots, bowls, plates) from clay.
73. A person who makes and repairs wooden objects:
- A) Blacksmith
- B) Plumber
- C) Carpenter
- D) Cobbler
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Answer: C) Carpenter
Explanation: A Carpenter makes and repairs wooden objects and structures.
74. A person who mends or repairs shoes:
- A) Tailor
- B) Cobbler
- C) Milliner
- D) Draper
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Answer: B) Cobbler
Explanation: A Cobbler is a person who mends shoes as a job.
75. A person who drives cattle or sheep to market:
- A) Drover
- B) Jockey
- C) Chauffeur
- D) Stevedore
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Answer: A) Drover
Explanation: A Drover is a person who drives cattle or sheep to market.
76. A person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop:
- A) Fishmonger
- B) Butcher
- C) Greengrocer
- D) Baker
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Answer: B) Butcher
Explanation: A Butcher is a person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop.
77. A person who sells fish:
- A) Butcher
- B) Fishmonger
- C) Florist
- D) Confectioner
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Answer: B) Fishmonger
Explanation: A Fishmonger is a person who sells fish for a living.
78. A place where weapons and military equipment are stored or made:
- A) Arsenal
- B) Granary
- C) Museum
- D) Mint
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Answer: A) Arsenal
Explanation: An Arsenal is a place where weapons and military equipment are stored or made.
79. A pen or enclosure for pigs:
- A) Kennel
- B) Stable
- C) Sty
- D) Hutch
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Answer: C) Sty
Explanation: A Sty is a pen or enclosure for keeping pigs.
80. A building set apart and adapted for keeping horses:
- A) Stable
- B) Sty
- C) Kennel
- D) Hangar
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Answer: A) Stable
Explanation: A Stable is a building set apart and adapted for keeping horses.
81. A government by a few powerful people:
- A) Democracy
- B) Oligarchy
- C) Theocracy
- D) Autocracy
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Answer: B) Oligarchy
Explanation: Oligarchy is a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.
82. A government by the wealthy:
- A) Plutocracy
- B) Aristocracy
- C) Gerontocracy
- D) Bureaucracy
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Answer: A) Plutocracy
Explanation: Plutocracy is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth.
83. A government by the nobility or best citizens:
- A) Autocracy
- B) Aristocracy
- C) Plutocracy
- D) Theocracy
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Answer: B) Aristocracy
Explanation: Aristocracy is a form of government in which power is held by the nobility or highest social class.
84. A government by one person with absolute power:
- A) Autocracy
- B) Democracy
- C) Oligarchy
- D) Matriarchy
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Answer: A) Autocracy
Explanation: Autocracy is a system of government by one person with absolute power.
85. A government by divine guidance or by religious leaders:
- A) Theocracy
- B) Monarchy
- C) Patriarchy
- D) Bureaucracy
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Answer: A) Theocracy
Explanation: A Theocracy is a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
86. A government run by state officials rather than by elected representatives:
- A) Bureaucracy
- B) Democracy
- C) Aristocracy
- D) Plutocracy
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Answer: A) Bureaucracy
Explanation: Bureaucracy is a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials.
87. A state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority or government:
- A) Anarchy
- B) Monarchy
- C) Dictatorship
- D) Republic
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Answer: A) Anarchy
Explanation: Anarchy is the absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual, regarded as a political ideal.
88. Rule or domination by the masses or a mob:
- A) Mobocracy
- B) Gerontocracy
- C) Kakistocracy
- D) Autocracy
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Answer: A) Mobocracy
Explanation: Mobocracy is rule or domination by the masses or a mob.
89. A state, society, or group governed by old people:
- A) Gerontocracy
- B) Patriarchy
- C) Matriarchy
- D) Kakistocracy
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Answer: A) Gerontocracy
Explanation: Gerontocracy is a state, society, or group governed by old people. (Gero = old).
90. A system of society or government ruled by a woman or women:
- A) Patriarchy
- B) Matriarchy
- C) Oligarchy
- D) Theocracy
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Answer: B) Matriarchy
Explanation: Matriarchy is a system of society or government ruled by a woman or women.
91. A large group of insects moving in a mass:
- A) Swarm
- B) Flock
- C) Herd
- D) Pack
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Answer: A) Swarm
Explanation: A Swarm is a large or dense group of flying insects.
92. A collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition:
- A) Menagerie
- B) Aquarium
- C) Aviary
- D) Apiary
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Answer: A) Menagerie
Explanation: A Menagerie is a collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition.
93. A structure where bees are kept, typically in the form of a dome or box:
- A) Hive
- B) Sty
- C) Hutch
- D) Drey
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Answer: A) Hive
Explanation: A Hive is a structure in which bees are kept, typically in the form of a dome or box.
94. A group of lions:
- A) Pride
- B) School
- C) Flock
- D) Pack
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Answer: A) Pride
Explanation: A group of lions is called a Pride.
95. A piece of enclosed land planted with fruit trees:
- A) Orchard
- B) Vineyard
- C) Nursery
- D) Granary
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Answer: A) Orchard
Explanation: An Orchard is a piece of enclosed land planted with fruit trees.
96. A place where coins, medals, or tokens are made:
- A) Mint
- B) Treasury
- C) Arsenal
- D) Bank
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Answer: A) Mint
Explanation: A Mint is a primary industrial facility which manufactures coins that can be used in currency.
97. A place of isolation for people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to infectious or contagious disease:
- A) Quarantine
- B) Sanatorium
- C) Asylum
- D) Dispensary
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Answer: A) Quarantine
Explanation: Quarantine is a state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals are placed to prevent the spread of disease.
98. A room or building equipped for physical exercise:
- A) Gymnasium
- B) Arena
- C) Stadium
- D) Theater
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Answer: A) Gymnasium
Explanation: A Gymnasium is a room or building equipped for gymnastics, games, and other physical exercise.
99. A building containing tanks of live fish of different species:
- A) Aquarium
- B) Terrarium
- C) Apiary
- D) Aviary
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Answer: A) Aquarium
Explanation: An Aquarium is a transparent tank of water in which live fish and other water creatures and plants are kept.
100. A collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people:
- A) Archive
- B) Museum
- C) Library
- D) Gallery
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Answer: A) Archive
Explanation: An Archive is a collection of historical documents or records.