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A person, who writes beautiful handwriting. (one word substitution)

  • Cacographist
  • Cartographer
  • Curator
  • Calligraphist
  • Correct Option: D  [ Calligraphist ]

    Remark: "The calligraphist's precise strokes transformed the text into a work of art."

The practice of having many wives is:

  • polyandry
  • bigamy
  • polygamy
  • monogamy
  • Correct Option: C  [ polygamy ]

    Remark: Polygamy is the act of marrying multiple spouses, that means having more than one husband or wife at the same time.

Loss of memory

  • Ambrosia
  • Amnesia
  • Insomnia
  • Forgetting
  • Correct Option: B  [ Amnesia ]

    Remark:

A place where bees are kept:

  • An apiary
  • A mole
  • A hive
  • A sanctuary
  • Correct Option: A  [ An apiary ]

    Remark: Apiary is a place where bees are kept especially, a collection of hives or colonies of bees kept for their honey.

That which would burn easily. (one word substitution)

  • Incendiary
  • Inflammable
  • Incandescent
  • none of these
  • Correct Option: B  [ Inflammable ]

    Remark:

Young cow that has not yet had a calf. (one word substitution)

  • Cowlet
  • Ewe
  • Heifer
  • none of these
  • Correct Option: C  [ Heifer ]

    Remark:

The trees which shed all their leaves at a particular time of the year are called

  • Evergreen
  • Coniferous
  • Deciduous
  • Savanna
  • Correct Option: C  [ Deciduous ]

    Remark:

A study of sounds is known as:

  • Semantics
  • stylistics
  • Linguistics
  • Phonetics
  • Correct Option: D  [ Phonetics ]

    Remark:

The act of killing one's own father:

  • Parricide
  • Patricide
  • Fratricide
  • Parasite
  • Correct Option: B  [ Patricide ]

    Remark:

Money paid to employees on retirement

  • gratuity
  • gift
  • pension
  • arrears
  • Correct Option: A  [ gratuity ]

    Remark: