What's the mystery word (3)?

This is the 3rd in our What's the Mystery Word? Series.

The exercise is very simple. You fill in the blanks in all the sentences below with the same word - yes, the same word in all 10 sentences. When you've finished, click on the link at the bottom of the exercise to check your answers and read some comments about collocations and useful phrases.

Exercise

1. Our company faces a very uncertain __________.
2. I think some of these students will have a very bright __________ ahead of them.
3. He met his _________ wife while he was still at college.
4. I think we should keep this report in a file for _________ reference.
5. They'll be opening up a new branch of this store in the very near __________.
6. I can't see myself buying a new house in the foreseeable ___________
7. Nobody really knows what the __________ holds.
8. Don't worry about the mistakes you made in the past - look to the _________.
   

When you've finished the exercise, please click here to check your answers and to read some helpful comments about collocations and common phrases.

Click below if you want to try some of my other one-point lessons:
Bob's One-Point Weekly Lesson Archive

For previous lessons in the What's the Mystery Word? series, please click below:
What's the mystery word? (1)
What's the mystery word? (2)


© Robert E. Jones, 2006