We are going to lose anyway, so I can't see the    of playing this game. 

After a short ________, I got my bag from the thief’s hand successfully.

 It’s hard to imagine a large city without policemen, but such was the ______ in London in the early 18th century.

What he has done is far from___________.

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