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(tirade, precede, stunned, catapulted, assembly, attendance, struck, extremely, incriminating, recording)
You saw Subbu always with The Boss but in the _______rolls, he was grouped under a department called the Story Department comprising a lawyer and an_______ of writers and poets. The lawyer was also officially known as the legal adviser, but everybody referred to him as the opposite. An ______ talented actress, who was also extremely temperamental, once blew over on the sets. While everyone stood _________, the lawyer quietly switched on the ______equipment. When the actress paused for breath, the lawyer said to her, “One minute, please,” and played back the recording. There was nothing ______ or unmentionably foul about the actress’s ______ against the producer. But when she heard her voice again through the sound equipment, she was ______ dumb. A girl from the countryside, she hadn’t gone through all the stages of worldly experience that generally ________a position of importance and sophistication that she had found herself ______ into. She never quite recovered from the terror she felt that day. That was the end of a brief and brilliant acting career.

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Attendance, assembly, extremely, stunned, recording, incriminating, tirade, struck, precede, catapulted

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