| 1. The queen rewarded the people for their _______________ by reducing their taxes. | | |
| 2. I want to _______________ for getting angry with you. It wasn't your fault I didn't get the job, so I shouldn't have yelled at you. | | |
| 3. I hate babysitting my little brother when my parents go out. He's a total _______________ and always refuses to go to bed. | | |
| 4. I'm not surprised they split up. They seemed to have a major _______________ every week. | | |
| 5. Cloning may some day allow doctors to transplant organs into patients without their bodies rejecting the organ as a _______________ object. | | |
| 6. I had a long _______________ with my son about the importance of doing his homework. | | |
| 7. Everyone in the church bowed down their heads in _______________. | | |
| 8. The Bicycling Association has been able to increase its _______________ through advertising at the local bike stores. | | |
| 9. Sonya is very shy, and finds it difficult to be in _______________ situations. | | |
| 10. I enjoyed my time living and studying in India, but I really felt like I didn't _______________ there, so I was glad to finally come home. | | |
| 11. Anyone caught _______________ on an exam will receive a "0" for the test. | | |
| 12. If you fail your test, you'll only have yourself to _______________ because you didn't study a bit. | | |
| 13. My boss showed a lot of _______________ by letting me take time off work after my mother died. | | |
| 14. Listen, why don't we _______________? Neither of us feels like washing the dishes, so let's each do half of them. | | |
| 15. We got _______________ at school, and eventually became good friends. | | |