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Missing word exercise about a home secretary who as resigned


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Missing word exercise you must choose a word from the right column to to complete the sentence.

Home secretary missing word exercise

The (1)________________ of the Home Secretary was announced today after days of (2)________________. The minister denied that he had done anything (3)________________, though the evidence against him published in the newspapers suggested that this was not the case. Always a (4)________________ figure, he lost the support of many of his colleagues because of his (5)________________ criticisms of them which (5)________________ Speak were published in a recent biography. When the first (6)________________ that he had abused his position to help the visa (7)________________ of his lover's nanny, an (8) was set up. When an email came to light that said that no favours were given, but the process had been speeded up, the minister felt that he had no (9)________________ but to resign, though he claimed that he had no (10)________________ of the email until the day before he quit. His opponents considered him an (11)________________ politician who passed a number of (12)________________ laws, exaggerating the threat posed by international (13)________________ as a (14)________________ for passing measures to restrict our (15)________________.

  1. Resign
  2. Speculate
  3. Proper
  4. Controversy
  5. Speak
  1. Accuse
  2. Apply
  3. Inquire
  4. Choose
  5. Know
  1. Tolerate
  2. Repress
  3. Terror
  4. Text
  5. Free

missing word exercise a home secretary resigns

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