1. Genevieve’s stunning debut performance at the city opera has earned her ________ from some of the city’s toughest critics.

2. The reformed criminal could not forget his guilty past; he was in a living state of ________.

3. After performing a ________ of the cow, scientists determined that it did not have mad cow disease, and there was no need to notify the board of health.

4. Although it was supposed to be written for the general public, the report was so ________ that only those with inside knowledge of government workings could understand it.

5. The police officer ________ the crowd to step back from the fire so that no one would get hurt.

6. Sanji went abroad as a ________ young man; when he returned two years later, he seemed like an experienced man of the world.

7. It is helpful for salesmen to develop a good ________ with their customers in order to gain their trust.

8. For years Henry bore the ________ of being the only man in five generations of his family not to make the varsity baseball team.

9. The dissatisfied workers spread their ________ attitudes among themselves until there was a danger of a full-scale rebellion against the owners of the factory.

10. Tai was ________ by a series of setbacks that nearly made him miss his deadline.