1. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for your ________ of our performance.

2. Don't worry I'm sure it's only ________ and that he'll soon recover before the next performance.

3. Right. What's this? Oh no, you're ________ me out of the firm.

4. Why didn't you ________ up for work yesterday?

5. Thank you for your honesty. Now ________ up that piece of paper.

6. As she was on a very dangerous mission for the government she had to keep ________ about what she did for a living.

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

8. There were lots of rumours about what the son had done but as it was a very wealthy family the father tried very hard to ________ everything up.

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

10. To be honest I was feeling a bit ________ down.