A support or base for a column, statue, or some other object.

No one had voted or named him captain, but he had built the boat, after all, and he was the one at the ___________ steering it, so that put him in charge.

to take in or out of the country illegally

All the shops were closing as they walked back through town, but Mahmoud _ _______________at how clean everything looked here in Turkey.

A phrase or melody that is repeated regularly during a song or poem.

The __________________ black clouds made us take cover and prepare for a terrible storm.

being thin, fine, or feathery in appearance

All the people in the concentration camp had _________________ looks on their faces.

not famous or little known; not discovered or known about; uncertain.