I don’t think your lecture ________ the audience, for they appeared quite puzzled.
It was _____ by the railway board that the cost of rail fares would be increased by ten percent.
What makes the space shuttle _____ is that it takes off like a rocket but lands like an airplane.
No one imagined that the apparently _____ businessman was really a criminal.
Mary had taken _____ to see that her guests had everything that they could possibly want.
Jack almost fell off the cliff, but managed to _____ until help came.