"ort"s
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     All of the following missing words sound like "ort". All are of one syllable only.


1.   The child custody battle took place in the High ___.

2.   An act for which damages may be claimed is called a ___ in legal terminology.

3.   All his efforts came to ___ when the project was cancelled.

4.   A ___ is a small castle with no housing for troops.

5.   The dead man's children ___ over the terms of his will.

6.   The incident in which the road collapsed was ___ with danger.

7.   Australians are mad about ___, much more so than New Zealanders.

8.   "The long and the ___ and the tall" is a line from a well-known war-time song.

9.   The meal was ___ to me on a tray as I lay in bed.

10.  He is not the ___ of person to let you down.

11.  She ___ her marriage certificate all over the house.

12.  The blacksmith made us a ___ iron gate.

13.  The drummer pulled the new drum-head ___ after replacing the torn one.

14.  He ___ me well at school.

15.  "Pass the ___" he said after dinner, pointing to the decanter.

16.  "I ___ I saw a pussy cat" is what the song-writer really meant.

17.  I ___ three new coats in the clothing store for the children yesterday.

18.  He gave a ___ of disgust as he looked at the greasy meal on his plate.

19.  "Give me a ___," said the drug addict to his friend.

20.  Access to the ___  was very difficult for the cruise liner.

21.  Squash is played in a ___ by bouncing the ball off the end wall.

22.  I had to stay behind at school and ___ out all the papers I had dropped.

23.  "Thanks for the ___, though," she said, declining his offer of tea.

24.  The power failure was caused by an electrical ___ in the transformer.

25.  The batsman was ___ in the slips to end his innings.