Fill in the blanks in the sentences below using the appropriate forms of the words given in the following box.


guide, succeed, chair, travel, pale, draw, true



(i) I met a ______ from an antique land.


(ii) I need special _____ in mathematics. I can’t count the number of times I have failed in the subject.


(iii) The guide called Stephen Hawking a worthy _____ to Issac Newton.


(iv) His other problems ____ into insignificance beside this unforeseen mishap.


(v) The meeting was _____ by the youngest member of the board.


(vi) Some people say ‘yours ____ ‘ when they informally refer to themselves.


(vii) I wish it had been a ____ match. We would have been spared the noise of celebrations, at least.

(i) traveller


(ii) guidance


(iii) successor


(iv) paled


(v) chaired


(vi) truly


(vii) drawn


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