1. First he started shouting and then he began to throw things round the room and it was clear he had just lost his ________ .

2. It's good that we both have the same way of ________ at things.

3. Putting all your money in that enterprise is futile it's like playing a losing ________ .

4. All I can do now is simply beg your ________ and hope that in time we can get back to where we used to be.

5. I'm pleased to say that we speak on this matter with one ________ .

6. I must ________ your pardon, I mistook you for somebody else.

7. Please accept this small present as my way of making ________ for all the trouble I've caused.

8. I know I shouldn't have made those remarks about your work and I hope you now know how deeply I ________ what I said.

9. We haven't made any progress this year and are in a sense going backwards and losing ________ .

10. Do you mind repeating that last bit again as I seem to have lost the ________ of your argument?