1.
Today's football match has been ______ because of bad weather. They will play next Thursday instead.
2.
I liked her. She gave me the ______ of being clever but modest, which is quite unusual.
3.
The boxer recovered, although he had been ______ for ten minutes after the fight. His doctor has told him to give up fighting.
4.
According to the weather ______, there will be more snow tomorrow.
5.
After hours of walking across the desert they thought they saw an oasis, but they were wrong. There was nothing there; it was only a ______.
6.
The ______ of the ship now lied under 300 meters of water, and we shall probably never discover its secrets.
7.
Heavy snow ______ the train for several hours.
8.
The very idea of my sister being a thief is quite ______! She is a qualified dentist, a mother of three and a governor of a primary school.
9.
If workers and bosses cannot agree, they sometimes bring in professionals from outside to ______ in the dispute.
10.
The soldiers ______ around the square in a perfect display of discipline, watched by the President and his foreign guests.