In the following question, two statements are given with a part missing. From the options, choose the word that can fit in the sentences to make it grammatically and contextually correct. 1. As finance minister in the Rattazzi cabinet of that year he had been ________ with a public debt of nearly 120,000,000. 2. Dean did feel a pang of regret at not having __________ Joseph Dawkins on one important matter.