1. The fire spread all over the antique bookshop and ......... all the valuable books and manuscripts in it.

2. The plague in the nineteenth century was a terrible disease that ......... millions of people.

3. Since Alice retired, she has been deprived of some favorite diversions — business meetings, business trips and cocktail parties. The humdrum routine of her present life is literally ......... her.

4. In the Middle Ages, bandits and criminals were publicly ......... by hanging.

5. The Mafia often kidnaps children of the rich, demands money for their safe return, and then ......... them anyway.

6. The president of the country was ......... because nobody liked his hostile politics.

7. Because of a lack of evidence, the judge dismissed the case against the man accused of ......... the senator.

8. Thousands of cows and other cattle were ......... because of the anthrax epidemic a few years ago.

9. A lot of American Indians were ......... after white men settled in the New World.

10. Angela has been a Mafia informant for many years now. Knowing that the Mafia is fond of ......... its enemies, she demands and is paid exorbitant amounts of money to do this dirty job.