1. The reason for this is possibly that you thought it was a ________ but in fact it is a tragedy.

2. That is the reason why I am standing here and making this short ________ .

3. To be honest I was feeling a bit ________ down.

4. The hall was full of people anxious to hear what the speaker was going to say and in the few seconds before he started it was so quiet you could hear a ________ drop.

5. Now, I must insist as your supervisor if you really want to ________ on in your career, you must tell me the truth.

6. As it was very late when he came home he was as quiet as a ________ in order not to wake anybody up.

7. There were lots of rumours about what the son had done but as it was a very wealthy family the father tried very hard to ________ everything up.

8. It really was a large and spacious garden but it cried out ________ something colourful to be planted.

9. There was a noisy crowd of about a dozen people in ________ cry chasing after the child who'd stolen an apple from the fruit market.

10. For crying out ________ how many times do I have to tell you how to work that machine?