marvelous stationary mysterious precise obliged condense absorbed tedious devise stationery 1. I went to the library and read whatever I could to find about the causes of the (1) disappearances of the ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle. 2. By the time when we reached Vancouver through the (2) travel at last, I was ill with a high fever and could hardly raise my head. 3. The (3) acting of these actors compensated for the play's weak script. 4. People have anticipated that in about 20 years more women will enter the work force and women with (4) skills will become more important. 5. Anyone who can (5) a means of recording television programs without recording the advertisements will make a fortune. 6. The review deals with undergraduate courses and manages to (6) a great deal of materials into a concise and readable form. 7. It's a common sense that moving parts in engines wear out much more quickly than (7) parts, just as the case everyone can see from our daily life. 8. Getting ready to go back to school in the good old days of 1999 meant a few trips to the bookstores and the (8) stores for a long list of school supplies. 9. I shall be much (9) to you, if you can send me a perfect specimen so that I may determine its proper genus. 10. I'm always fascinated about mother nature. The more I learned about the nature, the more (10) I became in its mystery.