1.
A ______ is a person who is paid to hurt or threaten people.
2.
The ______ is used in expressions such as walking down the ______ to refer to the activity of getting married.
3.
Someone who is ______ behaves in a way that is morally wrong, especially by doing dishonest or illegal things in return for money or power.
4.
If you ______ off someone who is following you, you manage to get away from them, for example by running faster than them.
5.
A ______ is an offer or a suggestion that someone makes to you, usually concerning some work or business that you might be able to do together.
6.
Some people say like ______ to emphasize that they strongly disagree with you or are strongly opposed to what you say.
7.
If a group of factory workers, nurses, or other people work ______s, they work for a set period before being replaced by another group, so that there is always a group working. Each of these set periods is called a ______. You can also use ______ to refer to a group of workers who work together on a particular ______.
8.
A cold ______ is a police inquiry that has been suspended with the crime still unsolved.
9.
Someone's Achilles ______ is the weakest point in their character or nature, where it is easiest for other people to attack or criticize them.
10.
Short for it ______ or that ______, and either means that it makes sense
11.
If you ______ out with someone, you have an argument and stop being friendly with them. You can also say that two people ______ out.
12.
This makes us ______ means this makes us even.
13.
If you ______ somewhere, you remain there or walk up and down without any real purpose.
14.
Someone's ______ is the area which is most familiar to them or where they feel most confident.
15.
If you say that someone is looking over their ______, you mean that they feel anxious all the time about what someone may do to them.
16.
I didn’t ______ this coming means I didn’t expect this would happen.
17.
If a vehicle or other moving thing ______s or if you ______ it, it suddenly changes direction, often in order to avoid hitting something.
18.
If you come away from somewhere ______, you have failed to get what you wanted.
19.
Right out of the ______ means at or from the very beginning