To make members of a team perform better, the trainer first of all has to know their ______ and weaknesses.

The magazine is a(n) ______ number. You can take it out of the reading room.  

People complain that decisions to approve or deny a permit are often________rather than based on fixed criteria.                                               

 Because the lights happened to ______, no one noticed the thief enter our bedroom. 

— I didn't mean ______ my mother.— But talking to her like that meant ______ her.