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SSC CGL Word Building — practice questions

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A word formed by rearranging all letters of another word exactly once is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →An anagram whose meaning is opposite to the original word is termed what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which anagram of 'evil' is also a synonym of it?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair is an antigram, having opposite meanings?Read the answer and worked solution →How many different arrangements, other than the original, can the letters of 'MARK' form?Read the answer and worked solution →In how many ways can all five different letters of 'GRAPE' be arranged?Read the answer and worked solution →'Anagrams' can be rearranged into a Latin phrase meaning 'the great art'. Which one?Read the answer and worked solution →A person who creates anagrams may be called what?Read the answer and worked solution →The word 'anagram' can be rearranged into which phrase?Read the answer and worked solution →Which phrase is an anagram of 'New York Times'?Read the answer and worked solution →Which sentence is an anagram of 'Tom Marvolo Riddle'?Read the answer and worked solution →What was the ancient English word for 'bird', a letter-switched form?Read the answer and worked solution →How many letters does the modern English alphabet contain?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two English letters may function as either a vowel or a consonant?Read the answer and worked solution →The word 'alphabet' joins the names of the first two letters of which script?Read the answer and worked solution →Earliest Old English writing used which runic alphabet?Read the answer and worked solution →A morpheme attached to a word stem to form a new word is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Adding a morpheme at the beginning of a word is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which affix is inflectional, turning a singular noun into a plural?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is a derivational affix that creates a new word?Read the answer and worked solution →Which prefix forms the opposite of 'possible'?Read the answer and worked solution →Which suffix added to 'friend' forms a noun for the state of being friends?Read the answer and worked solution →Which suffix added to 'child' names the period of being a child?Read the answer and worked solution →Which suffix added to 'care' gives a word meaning without care?Read the answer and worked solution →Which word results from joining 'foot' and 'ball'?Read the answer and worked solution →Change the first letter of 'CAT' to get a flying mammal.Read the answer and worked solution →Drop the first letter of 'PLATE' to get a word meaning not on time.Read the answer and worked solution →Add one letter before 'ARM' to get a word for land used for crops.Read the answer and worked solution →Reading 'LIVE' backwards gives which word?Read the answer and worked solution →How many vowels does the word 'EDUCATION' contain?Read the answer and worked solution →

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A word formed by rearranging all letters of another word exactly once is called what?

  1. Palindrome
  2. Anagram
  3. Acronym
  4. Homonym
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Correct answer: B. Anagram

Reusing every original letter once in a new order is exactly what defines an anagram.

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An anagram whose meaning is opposite to the original word is termed what?

  1. Epigram
  2. Metagram
  3. Antigram
  4. Pangram
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Correct answer: C. Antigram

An anagram with an opposed meaning is named an antigram, as with restful and fluster.

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Which anagram of 'evil' is also a synonym of it?

  1. Evils
  2. Veil
  3. Vile
  4. Live
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Correct answer: C. Vile

Vile uses the same four letters as evil and carries nearly the same meaning.

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