Practice Fillers Questions and Answers

• What the philosophers in question owe us is a ______________ explanation of how there can be a class of entities which do not behave like particulars.
• These latest scandals will provide _____________ fuel for his political opponents.
• When requested by a student, family members were _____________ of the difficulties faced by the student.
• What's more, the dominant demoiselle seemed to ________________ her power, chasing her underlings and pinning them into corners of the aquarium.     �...
• Phil's achievements in the field of instrumental and classical crossover have brought him a legion of fans and sustained critical ______________.     �...
• They have to _____________ with elephants, hippos, bushpigs, porcupines, vervet monkeys, baboons and birds which are after their crops.      ...
• Throughout the text, Graubard's lapidary prose is lucid and provocative, likely to _________ a glow of pleasure in the reader.
• _______________made her a public figure, he must have expected her to be subjected to public scrutiny and political attacks.
• That said, courts must avoid ____________ such power to look over the shoulder of business as a counsel of perfection.                 ...
• More and more governments are having to step in and override these magistrates who arrogantly refuse ____________ note of public disquiet.
• Little or no ___________ water is to be found, and only after a thundershower are the pools filled.
• The Oscar ___________ actress has been torn to shreds by the media and public for her altered face.
• The driver managed _______________ himself from the wrecked car before it burst into flames.
• His wife smelt something ________________ and went to investigate, only to find him in the act of now setting the room on fire.
• It's just that case-hardened nit-pickers like me can't help _____________ these things.
• When you finish ______________ the crossword, look for the solution on the back page.
• Among his contributions to philosophy is his claim _____________ solved the philosophical problem of induction.          
• The ______________ fabric should not be washed in hot water.
• The alien enemies' verbal taunts and blurbs also start sounding like an annoying _____________ record the deeper you get into the game.
• To avoid ______________ its audience by having any dead air at all, between songs in individual sets it'll cut away to interviews with other bands.
• To counter this a cross party committee of MP's suggested _______________ subsidized housing to teachers willing to work in deprived schools.       ...
• Despite several British attempts to persuade them, the Dutch Republic refused __________ their former allies in the war and remained neutral.
• Blogger's new image feature has ______________ my template which I haven't touched in years.          
• A storm of protest ________________ after council officials released critical figures just hours before a crunch meeting.
• Eighty of the eighty-two committee members ______________ to meet the out-of-towners.
• Like many in Russia, she blamed the country's failings on futile attempts to _____________ with the West.
• Its no use asking them what happened because they will _______________ a story, which will be believed by everyone.
• Wages are failing to _____________ with inflation.
• No one knew exactly what they would be tested on so most of the boys had moved swiftly to the library to ____________ royal etiquette and manners.
• In fact, it was his father who advised him to study law and _____________ the legal profession.
• It is possible to plug into remote databases to ____________ information.
• All the bedrooms are __________ flowers, to match the paper and cretonne.
• The charge nurse will _________ to other staff members, trying to find last-minute replacements.
• Just a wall separates it from Mangalavanam, forested with mangroves and tall trees, home to migratory birds which ___________ Kochi from afar.
• She said that the nurse had been ______________ to another part of the home on an emergency call.
• The paper ____________ an urgent shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly.
• The siege was protracted till December, when Suvorov was ____________ to assist.
• A strike by Royal Mail staff at Wythenshawe has been _______________ after a postwoman sacked for not wearing a cycle helmet was given her job back.
• I _______________ her name, but she couldn’t hear me over the music.
• The brothers were ____________ when the war began.