1. Andrew: If you say so. But I'd like to make it ________ that I'm dead against it.

2. Henry: Certainly not! I'm not going to let ________ be scared by some stupid crank.

3. The sound of the waterfall goes on all day and night and in the end the ________ noise gets on your nerves.

4. He always follows that old ________ : early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

5. There was absolutely no call for him to criticise her so cruelly and in almost a ________ manner.

6. I find these mathematical puzzles too ________ and prefer the more straightforward type.

7. If you invest that money, you will find it will grow and ________ interest.

8. He didn't really give speeches because he used to scream and shout and you could hear him ________ a hundred meters down the road.

9. The sands of ________ are running out and you'll have to hurry up.

10. In order to get children to go to sleep, parents sometimes say that the sand ________ will soon come and put sand in their eyes.