When different cultures, we often pay attention only to the differences without noticing the many similarities.
— Can I go now, sir? — If you _______ leave, do it quietly.
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.