Fill in the blank (vocab)

Snow and ice have caused (a)   on the roads. 

A new tax was (a)   on consumers of luxury goods.

Food protests and (a)   have erupted in more than 30 countries.

The (a)   of the plot were arrested and punished.

(a)   me interrupting, but there's a client to see you.

I was (a)   that so many people turned up to the party.

The new government has (a)   all foreign diplomats.

Now that you have a job and I don't, our situations are (a)   .

There are more and more homeless people (a)   on the streets these days.

Cambridge University Press was (a)   in 1534.