1. The Government published a report clearing the minister of any guilt and ________ that he had acted correctly.

2. You can tell that this piece of furniture is ________ to America because of the strong colonial style.

3. They are in fact twins but are not at all alike physically but are not ________ from one another in attitude.

4. In this biography she is ________ as a kind sweet old lady but in reality she was a bad tempered old witch.

5. There's little point in those two firms competing for the same market as they would be much better ________ with one another.

6. It was a totally new experience for us visiting that factory abroad as we were ________ to all sorts of new techniques.

7. Let's look at it this way it's not so much a problem ________ a challenge to our efforts.

8. This is a sort of shortened version of what happened and has been ________ to fit into the newspaper.

9. No one had a clue what had actually happened neither the police ________ the public.

10. His attempt to make fun of the situation was considered to be in bad taste and ________ in the extreme.