1. Tom is a perpetual .......... . He is a criminal who should spend the rest of his life in jail because he'll never change his ways.

2. Be quiet, please. I want to watch this short .......... . This is a serious and ongoing issue, and the media is about to make another announcement about it.

3. That dock worker from Maine got a lucky .......... on that television show last month. He won more than $100,000!

4. It's the final game of the year, and both teams have the same score. After two overtime periods, the officials have decided that the teams should take part in a .......... . The team that wins this will win the championship.

5. Since this is the first day of class, I've made a short list of questions that we can ask each other. These will work as .......... so that we can all get to know each other better, the teacher said.

6. I didn't realize that the weather was going to be so harsh today. I would have brought my .......... breaker with me if I'd known there was going to be such a gale!

7. These items are ..........-breakable because they are made of durable plastic.

8. Why don't you give James a(n) ..........? He just lost his mother to cancer last month, and now his wife is leaving him. Don't pick on him anymore!

9. This line of thinking is a real .......... from the past. It's kind of radical and very different from past mindsets.

10. The government is worried about an influenza .......... so they are trying to immunize everyone.