Italy Population – C2 – Vocab 1 / 20 In the text, ‘problematic’ most nearly means: popular difficult harmless inevitable 2 / 20 In the text, ‘notoriously’ most nearly means: quietly randomly famously (for a bad reason) briefly 3 / 20 In the text, ‘over-burdened’ most nearly means: getting unexpected rewards avoiding hard work carrying too much responsibility sharing tasks equally 4 / 20 In the text, ‘wafer-thin’ most nearly means: highly generous very limited fully automated legally binding 5 / 20 In the text, ‘predominant’ most nearly means: hidden dominant temporary irrelevant 6 / 20 In the text,’paradoxically’ most nearly means: in a strictly logical way as a personal opinion without any evidence in a way that seems contradictory 7 / 20 In the text, ‘rock-bottom’ most nearly means: extremely low carefully regulated unexpectedly high moderately stable 8 / 20 In the text, ‘afford’ most nearly means: have enough money for be willing to try have time to travel agree to share 9 / 20 In the text, ‘declined’ most nearly means: decreased improved stabilised multiplied 10 / 20 In the text, ‘astonishing’ most nearly means: remarkable inevitable ordinary unclear 11 / 20 In the text, ‘outlier’ most nearly means: exception cause solution trend 12 / 20 In the text, ‘ever slimmer’ most nearly means: suddenly taller unexpectedly older gradually richer increasingly smaller 13 / 20 In the text, ‘affectionate’ most nearly means: hostile formal skeptical fond 14 / 20 In the text, ‘milling around’ most nearly means: working intensely wandering aimlessly travelling abroad queuing silently 15 / 20 In the text, ‘glimpse’ most nearly means: predict accurately catch sight of briefly ignore completely measure precisely 16 / 20 In the text, ‘dipped’ most nearly means: risen sharply stayed constant doubled quickly fallen slightly 17 / 20 In the text, ‘per annum’ most nearly means: each month at the start each year by chance 18 / 20 In the text, ‘inverted’ most nearly means: carefully measured briefly explained partly hidden turned upside down 19 / 20 In the text, ‘ratio’ most nearly means: exception sequence proportion estimate 20 / 20 In the text, ‘revealed’ most nearly means: denied imagined disclosed postponed Your score is