When he first went for treatment at the hospital he seemed to be a hopeless _____. 

He did not find a job yet because he had no _____ to men who could help him.

The detective_____the spy to_______.

We forgave his bad temper because we knew that his son's illness had put him under great _____.

There is an obvious _______ between children spending too much time playing computer games and their bad grades at school.