1. The leading lady is also absent from our stage and you can probably hear her ________ her heart out as I speak.

2. Our leading actor is unable to come on the stage at the moment because he is ________ with emotion.

3. If you want me to say nothing about it, I promise that if anybody asks then my lips are ________ .

4. It really is a crying ________ that after all that money has been spent, the project is now being abandoned.

5. Well, I won't ________ up any more excuses. I wasn't here yesterday because I went to a football match.

6. All right I ________ up, I'll tell you the truth.

7. The so-called ________ majority are the vast number of people who don't actually go out on the street and protest.

8. The hall was full of people anxious to hear what the speaker was going to say and in the few seconds before he started it was so quiet you could hear a ________ drop.

9. We will always remember the way you stood up and ________ at some of the speeches in the play.

10. As far as I'm concerned to be away from traffic, phones and radios on holiday is perfect bliss because to me silence is ________ .