Lexico Test 12

Holiday accommodation owners in Cornwall are being _____ with enquiries from Britons planning a summer holiday, after the new travel restrictions dampened hopes of overseas trips.

• deluged

• streamed

• bombed

• submerged

The artistic administrator is the person ultimately responsible for casting; his taste is a major _____ of what, or whom, you hear onstage.

• referee

• forerunner

• arbiter

• precedent

Answer explanation

arbiter = someone who makes a judgment, solves an argument, or decides what will be done

Seeing something piled ______ on the shelves, Bennett moved closer and found hundreds of wooden palettes stacked in complete disarray.

• punctiliously

• spottily

• fortuitously

• haphazardly

Answer explanation

haphazardly = in a way that does not have an obvious order or plan

Though their house was tiny, they were always ______ in their generosity, often inviting homeless or other vulnerable people in for a meal.

• undying

• unending

• unyielding

• unstinting

Answer explanation

unstinting = extremely generous

My house is by ______, so it can be quite noisy.

• a children playground

• a child playground

• a children's playground

• a child's playground

Robert Burton knows melancholy from the inside; (a)   combat at close quarters has familiarised him with the adversary. (LONG)

His description of melancholy distinguishes it from madness and frenzy, but it sometimes comprises mania and even persistent florid (a)   as in schizophrenia. (PSYCHE)

Burton (a)   the cases of melancholy persons who thought they were giants or dwarves, or that they were made entirely of glass and dared not sit down for fear of shattering. (COUNT)

For the most part, he maintains a(n) (a)   medical demeanour in discussing such fantasticos. (PERTURB)

His personal favourite among (a)   melancholics is the man who held his water because he feared that it would flood the entire town. (POSTERIOR)

Answer explanation

preposterous = very silly or stupid