Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words. 1. The principal would be less (insist) on kids wearing school uniforms if the school had to pay for them. 2. It’s so (depress) the way no one seems to care what’s happening to this country. 3. I really miss my mother. My only (console) is that her suffering was not prolonged. 4. The progressive Chinese intellectuals in the early days of the 20th century drew much of their (inspire) from the revolutionary ideas flooding out of Europe at that time. 5. Three people were killed in a head-on (collide) between a bus and a car. 6. Much progress has been made in the (diagnostic) of genetic disease. 7. Then suddenly, despite all their (assure) they broke the agreement and signed a deal with a rival company. 8. A heavy concentration of the drug may produce dizziness or even (unconscious).