Please remember _____ wins you respect is not your background but your knowledge and virtues.
He's _____ drink and never does a stroke of work.
We could see that he was trying to _____ his own responsibility for the delay, instead of accepting his fault.
Neither of them thought highly of him and they both tried to _____ him in his work.
One _____ needed when making a cake is flour; another is sugar.
The _____ of the trees in the water was very clear.