1. Although the leader's life was both ...... and painful, it was not without ...... for he had accomplished many of his goals.

2. Instead of ...... prove your worth by ...... something.

3. There is no glory in war ...... the blood it ......

4. The ...... words of the mother comforted the ...... child.

5. The domestic and foreign policies of a nation state with a long ...... and continuous historical tradition like India have a certain ...... about them.

6. I have just the memory of my father to ...... now, but my faith in him has never been ...... .

7. When it comes to back stabbing, a quill ...... be ...... than a dagger.

8. Nothing is so ...... to a nation as an extreme of self partiality, and the total want of ...... of what others will naturally hope or fear.

9. Fiction approximates to science, first in accepting the obligation of being ...... to life as it is, and secondly, in asserting the right to ......

10. The security forces fired at the ...... who was armed to the ......