. In order to learn the _______ of the family business, Bill took a job as messenger boy in one of the offices.
. Don't _____ the news to the public until we give you the go-ahead (许可,准许).
The farmers were more anxious for rain than the people in the city because they had more _____.
When I took his temperature, it was two degrees above _____.
His landlady gave him a week's _____ to leave the flat.
Her skirt had been so _____ in packing that she had to iron it before going out.