1. The police feel that the ...... shown by the judges to first offenders unfortunately ...... many youngsters to commit more and more crimes.

2. The region is likely to witness a ...... up as competition for its precious resources ......

3. How many of the books published each year in India make a ...... contribution towards improving men's ...... with each other?

4. Conditions in the country have grown so ...... that many refugees have risked death to ......

5. I would like to ...... your attention to the second paragraph of my letter ...... to the terms of sale of the machinery.

6. He was ...... of playing ...... and loose with the sentiments of his dearest friends.

7. The human infant is a life-long bundle of energy with a ...... array of potentialities, and many .......

8. Somesh ...... me coming to his table, he smiled and ...... me a chair.

9. The mill workers were not ...... with their low wages and non-payment of wages for last three months ...... fuel to the flames.

10. In Buddhism, it is impossible to keep ethics and psychology ...... from one another, because they ...... at so many points.