According to the boss, John is the most _______ for the position of executive secretary.

 I have always _____ you my best friend.

 I cannot undo the _____ in this piece of string.

You should not burn _______. You had better dig a hole and bury it.

The weather was ______ the exceptionally poor harvest.

Some of the older villagers prefer to ______ tobacco rather than to smoke it.

Chaplin's movies captivated.........throughout the world.

If you study hard, you ___________________ the exam.

My husband and I both go out to work so we share the _______.

 If the boy had ______ the dog alone it wouldn’t have bitten him.

If you want to …………your English, we can help you.

Let's wait here for her; I'm sure she'll turn up before long. (Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.)

His stomach began to _______ because of the bad food he had eaten.

I shall never manage to beat John at tennis; we are clearly not in the same ______.

He does not _______ his fellow-workers and there are often disagreements between them.

The child was told to ______ for being rude to his uncle.

 He always studies the ______ in the paper as he wants to find a good second-hand car.

 Can’t you _____ your chief to let you have a holiday?

He has impressed his employers considerably and ______ he is soon to be promoted.

Can you possibly make ______ what he has written here?

The peoples of the African interior began to ______ gold in exchange for the goods they needed from abroad.