Mixed Bag of Words

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

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

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

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

5. His carelessness ________ the whole enterprise.

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

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

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

9. I congratulate you on your ________ in jewelry.

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

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. Yesterday Stephen studied for five hours ________.

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

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

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

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

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