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attempt,        generous,        agree,       threat,       brevity,     compare,     significantly

1. I had a ________ look at her report before the meeting.
2. I had the constant ________ to look out of the window. It was snowing so heavily.
3. This information on its own is of little ________. I just ignore it.
4. We will never forget the ________ shown by the local people. They have given up so much.
5. By ________, a cup of Starbucks brewed coffee contains three hundred thirty milligrams caffeine in four hundred seventy-three milliliters.
6. The weather is really ________. It has been raining for the whole month!
7. The terrorists ________ to blow up the plane if their demands were not met.