To ensure that children from poor areas can receive fair education, the government has planned to _______ more money to improve the miserable conditions of local schools.

What he said at the meeting suggested that he      with us.

Hard work ______ success while failure often ______ laziness.

I didn’t ________ my primary school classmate Jane until I listened to her self-­introduction. 

Sometimes we can’t _______ being persuaded to buy things that we don’t need at all.