Vocabulary Check

quasar - rear - premise - ebb - tacit - haul

1. _____ are relatively small objects.
2. In addition, the number of children born to unmarried women who choose  to  keep their babies and _____ them by themselves has increased dramatically.
3. The fundamental _____ of alchemy derived from the best philosophical dogma and scientific practice of the time, and the majority of educated persons between 1400 and 1600 believed that alchemy had great merit.
4. So as the crisis _____ and the bank moved to embrace retail finance, its grandees tried to appear a fraction more cuddly or less arrogantly aloof.
5. Corporate Culture is  the "shared customs, beliefs, norms, values, and _____ assumptions that make up the culture of a given organisation."
6. Moreover, if patrons were at distance from the artist, the finished work might have to be _____ in a cart.