One Word Substitution

Paying back injury with injury

  1. Repression
  2. Vendetta
  3. Reprisal
  4. Subjugation

Acutely affected by external impressions

  1. Ingenious
  2. Impressionable
  3. Credulous
  4. Sensitive

What should be the one word substitution for “To slap with a flat object”?

  1. How
  2. Swat
  3. Chop
  4. Gnaw

An assembly of hearers

  1. Audience
  2. Crowd
  3. Congregation 
  4. Assemblage

An associate in an office or institution

  1. Companion
  2. Ally
  3. Colleague
  4. Accomplice

One who is unrelenting and cannot be moved by entreaties

  1. Infallible
  2. Inexorable
  3. Impregnable 
  4. Inexplicable

Regard for others as a principle of action

  1. Cynicism
  2. Nepotism
  3. Philanthropy
  4. Altruism

Person who claims to have great love and understanding of what is beautiful in nature, art, etc.

  1. Critic
  2. Aesthete
  3. Connoisseur 
  4. Artist

What should be the one word substitution for “A disease which spreads by contact”?

  1. Infectious
  2. Contagious
  3. Contextual
  4. Contiguous

An animal story with a moral

  1. Fable
  2. Tale
  3. Parable
  4. Anecdote