Despite_____efforts by the finance minister, inflation rose to 36 points.
A. absurd
B. grimy
C. valiant
D. fraudulent
The rain looked as if it had____for the night.
A. set off
B. set up
C. set out
D. set in
In____I wish I had thought about alternative courses of action.
A. retrospect
B. disparity
C. succession
D. dissipation
Students who get very high marks will be____from the final examination.
A. expelled
B. banished
C. absolved
D. ousted