(GK) General English - 3

(GK) General English Part - 3

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51. Person who loves or collects booksBibliophile

52. Person having uncontrollable urge to set fire to thingsPyromaniac

53. Somebody who has an irresistible urge to steal, especially when there is no economic necessityKleptomaniac

54. Person who achieves pleasure in suffering pain, humiliation and the acceptance of physical and verbal abuseMasochist

55. The gaining of sexual pleasure by causing physical or mental pain to other people.Sadist

56. Somebody who chooses a plain and simple life of self-denialAscetic

57. A person who always expects the worst to happen in every situation and see the worst in all thingsPessimist

58. Person who tends to feel hopeful and positive about future outcomes; Person who habitually looks at the bright side of the things.Optimist

59. Person who hates marriageMisogamist

60. Person who hates womenMisogynist

61. Person who hates humankind in general, or dislikes and distrusts other people and tries to avoid their companyMisanthropist

62. A desire to improve the material, social, and spiritual welfare of mankind, especially through charitable activities; A lover of mankindPhilanthropist

63. A manuscript or other document entirely handwritten by its authorHolograph

64. A typewritten document or textTypescript

65. A book or other text written by hand, especially one written before the invention of printingManuscript

66. An account of somebody’s life written by that personAutobiography

67. An account of somebody’s life written or produced by another personBiography

68. The killing of all the people from a national, ethnic, or religious groupGenocide

69. The killing of an infantInfanticide

70. The murder of a kingRegicide

71. The act of killing another human beingHomicide

72. The act of killing of his or her own brotherFratricide

73. Murdering your own motherMatricide

74. The murder of a father by his own child or childrenPatricide

75. Somebody who deliberately kills himself or herselfSuicide

76. Government controlled by a mobMobocracy, Ochlocracy

77. A government based on the principle of majority decision-makingDemocracy

78. Government by clergy (Priests)Hierocracy

79. Government by a god or by priests.Theocracy

80. Any wealthy social class that controls or greatly influences the governmentPlutocracy

81. Government of a country by a small group of people, especially a hereditary nobilityAristocracy

82. One who believes in anarchyAnarchist

83. The absence of any formal system of government in a societyAnarchy

84. Government or control by a small group of peopleOligarchy

85. A government ruled by a kingMonarchy

86. Government in which one person has absolute power, dictatorshipAutocracy

87. Eating any kind of food, including both plants and animalsOmnivorous

88. Animal that feeds on fleshCarnivore

89. Feeding mainly on the flesh of other animalsCarnivorous

90. Eating only or mainly grass or other plantsHerbivorous

91. That feeds on grass (of animals)Graminivorous

92. Producing eggs that hatch outside the bodyOviparous

93. Bringing forth young aliveViviparous

94. An animal with a thousand legs (name of a worm like creature having many more legs than a centipede)Millipede

95. An animal with a hundred legs (name of an insect like creature with many legs)Centipede

96. Animal with four legsQuadruped

97. Animal with two legsBiped

98. Present everywhereOmnipresent

99. All knowingOmniscient

100. All powerfulOmnipotent

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