Though ______ to see us, the professor gave us a warm welcome.
Traditionally, local midwives would ________ all the babies in the area.
________, Mr. Wells is scarcely in sympathy with the working class.
I know he failed his last test, but really he’s ________ stupid.
There are still many problem ahead of us, but by this time next year we can see light at the end of the ________.
I went there in 1984, and that was the merely occasion when I ________ the journey in exactly two days.