One advantage of playing the guitar is it can give you a great deal of pleasure.
I wanted to _______ them the trouble of buying me a present. So I didn’t tell them about my birthday party.
Jack, to his _______, refused to get involved although his friends insisted on his trying the drug.
People sometimes think that shy people are cold and uninterested in other people _______ actually they are just afraid to meet them.
Many memories of old times were _______ by the conversation we had together that evening.
If I had ever feared death before, it was _______ compared to how I felt as the roller coaster moved faster and faster.