One-Word Substitution: previous-year questions

Answer: (C) Loquacious

'Loquacious' (also garrulous, talkative) describes a person who talks a great deal. 'Voracious' means having a huge appetite (a voracious eater or reader), 'Impecunious' means having little or no money, and 'Avaricious' means greedy for wealth. All four end in '-cious', which is why the question is built to confuse; link loquacious with Latin loqui, 'to speak' (as in eloquent).

Answer: (D) Hermaphrodite

A hermaphrodite is an organism having both male and female reproductive organs, e.g. earthworm, leech, tapeworm and most flowering plants (botanists use the term 'bisexual' or 'monoecious'). The word comes from Hermaphroditus, child of Hermes and Aphrodite in Greek myth. A homosexual is attracted to the same sex; a masochist gets pleasure from his or her own pain (a sadist from others' pain); 'sodomite' refers to a particular sexual practice, not to anatomy.