An apartment complex was torn down, leaving a _______ lot on which the neighborhood children played ball.

My family got a new _______ to clean up all the hair our cat sheds.

The young girl tried to sleep on a cot in the noisy gym where she had been taken as an _____ after the hurricane warning.

Thunder and lightning forced all the swimmers to _______ the pool.

Creating a _____ is a very difficult thing to do because it is nearly impossible to make a space without any air or other gases.

Farmers must _____ their grazing animals to protect them from flooding fields.

When Juan moved away, he left a _______ in the fifth grade class.

The town was like a ghost town after the mass _________.