#86 VOCABULARY TEST QUESTIONS 851 TO 860

(Charles Lambs's diction used in his ELIA AND Last Essays of Elia).
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Answering these questions will help you to appreciate the types of words used by the writer Mr. Charles Lamb.

851. Supply the missing word in the following quote:

Layers of dust have accumulated (a _____ of dirt!) upon the old layers.

d) superfetation.

852. Supply the missing word in the following quote:

With what reverence have I paced thy great bare rooms and courts at eventide! They spoke of the past:-- the shade of some dead accountant, with visionary pen in ear, would _____ by me, stiff as in life.

b)flit.

853. Supply the missing word in the following quote:

His intellect was of the shallowest order. It did not reach to a ____ or a proverb.

d)saw.

854. Supply the missing word in the following quote:

She had a neat _____ person, which it was evident she had not sinned in over-pampering; but in its veins was noble blood.

c)meager.

855. Supply the missing word in the following quote:

A little less facetious, and a great deal more ______, was fine rattling, rattleheaded Plumer.

a)boisterous b)clamorous c) noisy d)obstreperous.

856. Supply the missing word in the following quote:

"Nothing can be more unlike than the inflated ______ rhapsodies of Shaftesbury, and the plain natural chit-chat of Temple."

b)finical.

857. Supply the missing word in the following quote:

This noble benefit--gratitude forbids me to conceal their names--I owe to the kindness of the most munificent firm in the world--the house of Boldero, Merryweather, Bosanquet, and Lacy. ____ ________

(Context: The writer was granted a pension of 2/3 of his accustomed salary on his retirement. He was expressing his gratitude to the employer).

b)Esto perpetua.

858. Supply the missing word in the following quote:

"Still the prospect of its coming threw something of an illumination upon the darker side of my captivity. Without it, as I
have said, I could scarcely have sustained my _______."

(Context: The writer was referring to his working conditions in his 36 years of job which was like a jail).
d)thraldom.

859. Supply the missing word in the following quote:

"_______ was the transition at fourteen from the abundant play-time, and the frequently-intervening vacations of school days, to the eight, nine, and sometimes ten hours' a-day attendance at a counting-house."

d)melancholy.

860. Supply the missing word in the following quote:

"If ________, Reader, it has been thy lot to waste the golden years of thy life--thy shining youth--in the irksome confinement of an office; to have thy prison days prolonged through middle age down to decrepitude and silver hairs, without hope of release or respite; to have lived to forget that there are such things as holidays, or to remember them but as the prerogatives of childhood; then, and then only, will you be able to appreciate my deliverance."

b)peradventure.