SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 13 September 2024, Shift 2 · English Comprehension · Question 2 of 99

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Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words. One who eats a lot

(a)Chef
(b)Steward
(c)Chauffeur
(d)Glutton

Answer

Why

Correct — D. A glutton is a person who habitually eats and drinks to excess. The word is defined by how much is eaten, which is exactly what the clue measures.

The other three name occupations — what a person does for a living, not what a person's appetite is like. Option (d) is the word built on appetite.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Chef — A chef is a professional cook, typically the one in charge of a kitchen. The word says what he prepares for others, nothing about his own appetite.
(b)
Steward — A steward looks after passengers on a ship or aircraft, or manages another person's property and affairs. It is a role of service, not a description of eating.
(c)
Chauffeur — A chauffeur is a person employed to drive someone else's car. The word has no connection with food at all.

Concept

One-word substitution asks you to compress a definition into the single word that already carries it. Work from the load-bearing part of the clue, not from its general area.

Here the load-bearing part is eats a lot — the quantity. Cooking, serving and driving are all in the neighbourhood of the clue without answering it.

Glutton comes through Old French from Latin gluttire, to swallow. The abstract noun is gluttony, one of the traditional seven deadly sins, which is why the word carries disapproval.

Watch the spelling. Glutton has a double t, while glutinous, meaning sticky, has one and comes from a different Latin word, gluten, meaning glue.

Key facts

Glutton — a person who eats and drinks to excess. The abstract noun is gluttony.
Chef, steward and chauffeur all name occupations, which is why they cluster as distractors.
Glutinous means sticky and is unrelated to glutton, coming from Latin gluten, glue.

Study next

Substitutes for appetite and excess, such as gourmand, epicure and teetotallerOccupation nouns SSC reuses as distractors, such as steward, chauffeur and floristLatin roots that recur behind one-word substitution answers

Common traps

Reading eats a lot as cooks a lot and reaching for chef.
Choosing the option you have met most often instead of the one the clue defines.

SSC builds a whole eating family of substitutes.

18 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.3 asks for one who eats the flesh of his own species and keys Cannibal, and 25 Sep 2024, 12:30, English Q.6 asks for one who eats human flesh and keys Cannibal again.

Bare one-word substitution also runs at English Q.5 and English Q.6 of this 13 Sep 2024, 12:30 paper.

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