1. My job has gone because my boss has ________ me.

2. Elizabeth realized that it had been a ________ to take her daughter to the house where her father was killed some years before.

3. There was very little reaction to Henry's speech, except from one or two people at the back who kept on asking what Henry's party intended to do about the ________ price of fruit and vegetables.

4. After the speech he shook hands with some of the women. One of them lifted up a baby for him to kiss, but the ________ of Henry's beard must have frightened it because it began to scream its head off.

5. At lunch time he went to his sister's house to see his wife and daughters. They had spent the morning addressing envelopes for the leaflets he was sending out. His sister, Vera, thoroughly ________ of his involvement in politics.

6. My literature teacher speaks so quickly that he often makes ________ of the tongue.

7. Even nowadays ________ are still ranging the oceans and no one can feel safe against them.

8. It is written here that I have a sister but there must be some ________ because I am an only child.

9. Don't even think of shifting the blame on me, please! It's not my ________ for what happened.

10. All vehicles driving through this wild godforsaken region have been attacked by ________ .