Mixed Bag of Words

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

2. His carelessness ________ the whole enterprise.

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

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

5. I congratulate you on your ________ in jewelry.

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

7. Yesterday Stephen studied for five hours ________.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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