Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family were executed (1) _______________ Lenin.
Anna Anderson was the most famous (2) _______________ .
The fact that in 1979 Anastasia's body was not found (3)________________ of her escape.
This moving photo shows Kennedy's (4)_______________ family side.
Kennedy's son John also died young like other members of this (5)______________ family.
Francoise wrote a (6)_______________ description of Picasso in a book. This is why Picasso (7)_________________ to see his own children again.
Gandhi and his wife married young because it was an (8)_________________ marriage.
Gandhy's (9)________________ to achieve the independence of India lasted 32 years.
The thought of meeting his wife was always (10)______________ Gandhi.
Sofia was (11)______________ to Tolstoy's views and was also (12)___________ of his followers.
Tolstoy left his wife one winter in the (13)___________________
Before dying Tolstoy had been (14)_________________ love and non-violence.
Einstein and his sister (15)___________________ each other.
At the (16)_________________ of World War II Maja had to leave Italy and (17)______________ refuge with Einstein in the US where she had a (18)_______________ just after the war.
KEY
1. on the orders of
2. impostor
3. fuelled the myth
4. softer
5. ill-fated
not lucky and ending sadly, especially in death or failure.
E.g.
an ill-fated expedition
She regretted ever meeting him at that ill-fated party.
6. damning
7. refused
8. arranged
9. struggle
10. haunting
11. strongly opposed
12. jealous
13. dead of night
in the dead of night
(British English also at dead of night) in the quietest part of the night
E.g.
I crept out of bed in the dead of night and sneaked downstairs.
14. preaching
15. resembled
16. outbreak
17. sought
18. stroke.
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