Everyone Obama meets seems to be _________with his pat-on-the-back signature

They didn’t ________ the true meaning of what the boss had said, and thus their task almost completely failed.

I’m cooking breakfast for my ________ mother. She’s ________ in hospital now.

I would like to sit in _______ front of the bus.—Me,too. And we can have__________better view.

The manager finally agreed to our new marketing proposals —It never occurred to me you could succeed in persuading him to change his mind