1. On the train journey she began to think about what her father had said with his ________ to the rag bag (muddled collection) of ideas in her organisation.

2. One morning there was quite a hubbub (loud noise and activity) in the Fortune ________ when Cathy came rushing into the sitting room helter skelter (running at great speed),

3. In fact because he had refused to kow tow to (accept without question) some of the official regulations, he had been forced to take ________ retirement.

4. And then one incident at the end of the rally convinced her that she had ________ the right decision to work for the organisation.

5. In London, which ________ on the river Thames, people make a lot of noise all the time.

6. These people were not at all fuddy duddy (uninteresting) or indeed hoity toity (supercilious) and their main interest in life was to ________ that all animals were well treated.

7. As far as he was concerned this would be a ________ of time because the speakers at the rally would just talk mumbo jumbo (nonsense).

8. He simply thinks to himself: I live in a small village by a little stream and ________ this time of year lots of creatures start to wake up and make a lot of noise.

9. Andrew worried about the weather, the state of the pound, his health, the cost of ________ and once he even worried because he thought he wasn't worrying enough.

10. After all she thought her brother was enjoying himself and had gone ________ to work in America as a result of the brain drain (talented people leaving their own country to work for better pay in another).