1. If this relative is also your wife, then things become even more disastrous because it could end in ________ .

2. If you ask someone for their ________ on supermarkets as opposed to the small corner shop, you will get varying replies.

3. Months go by and most people forget their problems and get used to the idea of paying more and then talks ________ and the whole process starts all over again.

4. This piece of information was discovered by one keen local reporter and was ________ up out of all proportion by the national press.

5. Other papers asked the question: How can we trust our politicians if they ________ on society?

6. Then the final result is announced that there is to be a ________ between EASISHOP and GOSHOP, which will then become a super supermarket.

7. The only ________ to me is as they were successful on the first attempt, how come some years before it had taken me four tries!

8. Chief executives then start making pleasant speeches and smile a lot because they want to ________ the concerns of their borrowers.

9. The problem is that if your learner doesn't understand, you can both end up in the ________ .

10. Invariably if interest rates go up, the building societies pay more to their savers and borrowers complain at the increase they have to pay and maintain the societies are ________ their affairs.