He..... get the Head’s job provided there isn’t a last- minute hitch.

I don't like either candidate but Joe Biden is the _______.

We all _______ to buy our teacher a present.

They had _______ before they even met him.

When the business failed, we had to ______ our savings.

She really knows how to ______ people into doing what she wants.

He was criticized for his_______handling of the situation.

The president seems _______ to the likely effects of the new legislation.

In response to the _____ criticisms of its budget by powerful ethnic lobby groups, the government retreated.

There is an element of the impromptu about it, even of ______.