Please fill in the blanks with the correct form of the given words.

*Demonstrate

1. There is a -------------- link between poverty and malnutrition.

2. The students are holding a -------------- to protest against the increase in their fees.

*Persuade

3. Some gentle -------------- by his wife got John to change his mind.

4. Mrs. Hamilton spoke very -------------- about the needs for funding the project.

*Sequence

5. There is a problem with this pamphlet as the pages are not numbered --------------.

6. Normally, logical thought develops in a series of --------------steps.

*Defy

7. Many Americans have visited Cuba in --------------of U.S. law.

8. The demonstrators stood on the roof, -------------- waving banners and throwing stores.