lex syn 13

The sap causes swelling that can ... breathing

• arrest

• suppress

• forestall

• impede

Answer explanation

You're not supposed to park in the hard ... except in an ểmgency

• head

• lane

• area

• shoulder

Answer explanation

HARD SHOULDER: a hard area at the side of a main road -> a driver can stop if there's a serious problem

He drove out of Brighton cheerfully enough, munching his sandwich, climbing the London road until he had ... the Downs

• aped

• winged

• capped

• breasted

Answer explanation

BREAST (v): face and move forward against or through (st)

One end of the channel ... let to the Gulf, the other to a dead end

• circuitously

• felicitously

• gratuitously

• fortuitously

Answer explanation

CIRCUITOUS [fm]: not straight or direct

The car was launched with a massive media ..., involving newspapers, magazines, television and radio

• raid

• blast

• spree

• blitz

Answer explanation

BLITZ: a lot of energetic activity

After the floods, volunteers ... with trucks to help the three thousand residents

• flung off

• dealt in

• touched up

• pitch in

Answer explanation

PITCH IN: start to do st as part of a group, esp st helpful

Barker was doing what Johnson would call a ... of honour, circling the room saying goodbyes

• knot

• round

• ring

• lap

Answer explanation

a run or drive around a track or sports field that is made by a winner of a race or a team that has won a game

Floodlighted, the white marble gleamed with a snowy ...

• opalescence

• phosphorescence

• fluorescence

• incandescence

Answer explanation

INCANDESCENCE: the act of producing a bright light from a heated part
OPALESCENCE: the quality of reflecting light and changing colour like an opal

A robin was ... on the fence

• branching

• roosting

• rodding

• perching

Answer explanation

PERCH (v): sit on or near the edge of st

She leaned forward to watch the ... children from the window

• meddlesome

• peroxisome

• nettlesome

• frolicsome

Answer explanation

FROLICSOME: enthusiastic and liking to play

NETTLESOME: annoying, and causing problems or difficulties