1. She was ...... because all her plans had gone ......

2. What ...... one is the total absence of a coherent programme either on the part of the ruling or the opposition party to give a ...... to the poverty-stricken people that something will be really done to improve their condition.

3. This partly explains how the Mehta family has been able to ...... its lavish lifestyle in recent times, despite the fact that all its assets have been ......

4. He warned the workers against supporting these anti-social policies, which he declared would ...... rather than ...... the plight of the common people.

5. He is usually ...... , but today he appears rather ......

6. The planting of trees on the ...... of town and villages helps the ...... of a country.

7. Insurance companies are perfectly ...... of the greed some people show in ...... illnesses in order to get big settlements in the courts.

8. We have criticized our university students for preferring the security of political silence. and the safety of ...... to the excitement of social ...... and humanitarian action.

9. He gave me an additional ...... of Rs. 200 a month by ...... of the Commissioner.

10. Foreign multinationals may be ...... in implementing the infrastructural plan on c6ndition of introducing labour intensive techniques which generate a minimum ...... level of rural employment.