1. It had rained all afternoon, but the fans were still ________ that the baseball game would still be played.

2. Carson was at first flattered by the ________ of his new colleagues, but he soon realized that their admiration rested chiefly on his connections, not his accomplishments.

3. A decade after the ________, the members of the tribe began to drift home again, hoping to rebuild the community they had fled during the war.

4. Shakespeare, a(n) ________ writer, entertained audiences by writing many tragic and comic plays.

5. The goal of any company is to have its product name become ________—constantly at the forefront of the consumer’s mind.

6. Sunlight shining through a window was an obvious ________ in the nearly every one of the artist’s works.

7. Simona’s ________ with her money caught up with her when she didn’t have the resources to buy a badly needed new car.

8. The budding flowers, warm breezes, and birth of young animals suggest the much-welcomed ________ atmosphere in the country after a long, hard winter.

9. Kendrick’s talent ________ under the tutelage of Anya Kowalonek, who as a young woman had been the most accomplished pianist in her native Lithuania.

10. Much to my surprise, my teenage daughter was ________ to the idea of going out with me on Friday night instead of with her friends.