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1. My aunt and uncle are really sitting _____. They made a lot of money in the stock market.
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2. Lighten _____! You need to stop taking your job so seriously.
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3. After a week, my houseguests really started to get _____ my nerves. They made long-distance phone calls to Singapore, drank all my wine, and slept until noon every day.
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4. Amber likes to stay up past midnight every night. She's what you'd call a _____ owl.
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5. Mildred thought she'd have trouble remembering to take her pills. But now, after ten months, it's _____ nature.
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6. Susan messed _____ and left the cookies in the oven for 25 minutes too long. They were ruined.
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7. Andrea didn't cheat. She won the election fair and _____.
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8. Bob didn't know anything about baking when he and Susan started selling cookies, but he quickly learned the _____.
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9. Ted and his friends were fooling _____ in the chemistry laboratory when they accidentally started a fire.
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10. Mary's daughter wanted the new Harry Potter book. But by the time they got to the bookstore, it was already sold _____.
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