Fill in each of the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank. You may not use any of the words more than once. A) conceded B) ceased C) embarrassing D) presumed E) realized F) labeled G) reward H) compensate I) contrast J) conflict K) confuse L) assigned M) characteristic N) peculiar O) conversely My name, Bobby, is used both for boys and girls. Girls spell it “Bobbie”. It is __1__ for little boys to be given a name with a “y” sound at the end. For example, I often had a Jimmy, Johnny or Billy in my classes. In my second grade, I also had a Bobbie. In order not to __2__ us when she called our names, our teacher __3__ us the names “Bobbie Girl” and “Bobby Boy”. This caused me a lot of trouble on the playground. There, my friends __4__ me “Bobbie Girl”. For my friends, the apparent __5__ between my name and my sex was the source of much laughter. The fact that they labeled me as a girl was very __6__. I had a tendency to __7__ for my name by acting more like a boy than I might have otherwise. I threw more rocks and yelled louder than the sum of all of the other boys added together. The real “Bobbie Girl”, __8__, acted more like a girl. When my teacher __9__ she had made a mistake, she stopped calling us “Bobbie Girl” and “Bobby Boy”. Unfortunately, my friends never forgot or __10__ calling me “Bobbie Girl”. Third grade was an improvement; the original “Bobbie Girl” was in a different class. Also, I requested the teacher just call me “Bob”.