1. She soon got to know one of the local big wigs (important people) in a local organisation ________ at stopping cruelty to animals.

2. The rest of the organisation thought that she and Winton were a dream team (ideal partners) because she was enthusiastic and he was very ________ .

3. They lived in a des res (very attractive house) and her father, John Fortune, who was really a bit of a fat cat (wealthy businessman) thought that all this animal ________ was a lot of hocus pocus (nonsense).

4. One morning there was quite a hubbub (loud noise and activity) in the Fortune ________ when Cathy came rushing into the sitting room helter skelter (running at great speed),

5. She felt ________ and was pleased she had come to the demonstration.

6. She just wished that her father could ________ and be even steven (fair) about her side of the argument.

7. As it drew near she found she was asking herself ________ whether she had done the right thing. She looked at the horse and it was actually nodding its head and she could have sworn it said okie dokie (all right).

8. Cathy and her father had several pow wows (conversations) about her decision but it usually ________ up with a lot of argy bargy (arguments).

9. On the train journey she began to think about what her father had said with his ________ to the rag bag (muddled collection) of ideas in her organisation.

10. These people were not at all fuddy duddy (uninteresting) or indeed hoity toity (supercilious) and their main interest in life was to ________ that all animals were well treated.