An explosion is a sudden increase in amount（）

I could not persuade him to accept it,（）make him see the importance of it.

She had clearly no（）of doing any work, although she was very well paid.

The price they offered for my old car was so low that I（）it down.

I don't know who on（）stole the diamond last night.

Shall we request the chairman（）our suggestion again?

The weakening housing market continued to take its（）on the industry.

I expected a bigger payment, but I suppose you have to be（）for small mercies.

Our department（）courses in several foreign languages.

The aircraft vanished without（）