Mixed Bag of Words

1. As my exam is next week, I’ll take advantage of the day off to ________ on some reading.

2. If you want to telephone him you will have to ________ the number in the book.

3. His carelessness ________ the whole enterprise.

4. She ________ all her savings from the bank to pay for her flight to Australia.

5. I enjoyed that book so much that I read it from ________ to end in one day.

6. My father had to take private pupils in order to ________ his salary as a teacher.

7. The trader asked a high price, but I managed to ________.

8. The council members were dissatisfied with the wording of the recommendation, but passed it after ________ had been agreed.

9. Ann refused to take _______ in the preparations for the school concert.

10. Yesterday Stephen studied for five hours ________.

11. ________ 100 if you want to speak to the telephone operator.

12. The people who objected to the new road were told that since work had already started there was no point in ________.

13. After his heavy defeat in the local elections he decided to ________ from the campaign for the Presidency.

14. Inflation is very hard on people of ________ means.

15. I congratulate you on your ________ in jewelry.

16. Not knowing he had ________ out with his girl friend, I made the mistake of inviting them both to the party.

17. Ask the publishers to send you their latest _____ of English text-books.

18. When I was staying in Germany last year, I ____ quite a lot of German.