Banked cloze anxiety introduce acquaint acquisition saddled indicated resent reinforce expressed sensible transition equivalent regretting acceptable shifting There is a special life stage that our generation goes through. It is the 1)________ period, during which we move from teenage to adolescence. We learn who we are and what we stand for and what inspires us. Also, in this period we are 2)________ with a lot of pressure from our parents who want us to make something out of ourselves. My parents have already expressed feelings of 3)________ over my future with academics and life. When I expressed to them recently that I would not mind graduating in five years instead of four in order to study abroad to 4)________ myself with the world, they seemed so shocked. That idea sounded foreign and to them was 5)________ to lack of ambition. Apart from that, my mother has 6)________ to me that she is worried that I am not searching for a boyfriend. I 7)________ this stupid idea of marrying out of college since it does not suit me one bit. Women today can get what they want out of life without a man, even children, as it becomes more 8)________ for women to adopt children.