Choose the correct word for each blank.

1. We had a beautiful house where we many people.
2. When I was in college I was happy to with other students.
3. I'm going up north to Scotland to stay with a few of mine.
4. The party yesterday was awful. It was a complete .
5. I had to get up early the next morning so I myself and left quietly.
6. Please accept my for not being at the meeting. My husband was ill.
7. of the whole staff, I would like to thank you for coming.
8. The book has been out of for many years.
9. I have just read a wonderful about a man who cares for his ill wife.
10. She has little in with her sister. they're completely different.
11. At school we had to learn a lot of poems by .
12. There is an interesting about climate change in yesterday's paper.