Cloze procedure - vocabulary

So, here it goes, my secret is that I'm really an alien from a planet far, far away. A planet where three ​ (a)   moons glow at night and where purple rain falls from the clouds.​

• separate
• precedence
• genuinely
• remarkable
• attention
• anticipating
• novelty
• gravitated
• gesture
• hesitation

Just kidding! Of course I'm not an alien... I got your ​ (a)   though, didn't I?

• precedence
• genuinely
• remarkable
• attention
• anticipating
• novelty
• gravitated
• gesture
• hesitation
• immense

I started my new school four months ago. Everyone already had their best friend, their little group that they ​ (a)   towards in the playground.

• precedence
• genuinely
• remarkable
• anticipating
• novelty
• gravitated
• gesture
• hesitation
• immense
• gravitate

I started my new school four months ago. Everyone already had their best friend, their little group that they ​ gravitate towards in the playground, their ​ (a)   partners in PE.

• precedence
• genuinely
• remarkable
• anticipating
• novelty
• gravitated
• gesture
• hesitation
• immense
• preferred

Sure, they were interested in me for the first few days. I was a ​ (a)   , something for them to look at in a classroom that had been the same sea of faces for years.

• precedence
• genuinely
• remarkable
• anticipating
• novelty
• gravitated
• gesture
• hesitation
• immense
• preferred

And that pretty much set the ​ (a)   for how my life would pan out at my new school.

• precedence
• genuinely
• remarkable
• anticipating
• gravitated
• gesture
• hesitation
• immense
• preferred
• novelty

I stopped my pen mid-sentence and looked up to see one of my classmates had sat down on the bench next to me. I waited for the snarky comment to come, ​ (a)   that they were urge their friends to come over to make fun of me. But, it didn't come.

• genuinely
• remarkable
• anticipating
• gravitated
• gesture
• hesitation
• immense
• preferred
• novelty
• precedence

They actually looked ​ (a)   interested and, for a moment, I forgot my shyness.

• genuinely
• remarkable
• gravitated
• gesture
• hesitation
• immense
• preferred
• novelty
• precedence
• anticipating

Seeing my ​ (a)   , they stood up as if to return to their friends.

• remarkable
• gravitated
• gesture
• hesitation
• immense
• preferred
• novelty
• precedence
• anticipating
• genuinely

It is so simple. A kind word. A kind face. A kind ​ (a)   .

• remarkable
• gravitated
• gesture
• immense
• preferred
• novelty
• precedence
• anticipating
• genuinely