The novel is so badly written that I can hardly ________what the writer is trying to say.
With everything needed ___, she declared that the party began.
When we were alone, she ___ out her heart to me about her broken marriage.
He held my hand very ___ at first but gradually his hold loosened.
Mothers holding jobs outside the home should have ___ schedules to make it easier to care for their children.
Mary was much kinder to Jack than she was to the others, ___, of course, makes all the others upset.