to go spontaneously to another place - What if we _________ and visit your parents quickly.

by chance - We ran out of petrol on the way home, but as _________ , we were very near a garage.

not willing to accept ideas different from your own - The villagers were too ________ to see that a new shopping centre would be good for the economy.

smelling or tasting unpleasant as a result of being old and stale - After five days camping, we had to throw away the meat because it was becoming _____.

from the time when something started - The project had problems with funding right from the __________.

to care about what is best for someone - I don’t feel that the company has the best interests of its staff __________.

to try to understand a hidden meaning from what someone says - If we read ________ we can see that she really did not want to leave her boyfriend after all.

to work hard to achieve something - She has clearly put a lot of _____ into this work.

the feeling of finding something extremely interesting - My _________ opera started when I lived in Italy.

to work on your own, without help from other people - To be a successful student, you need to be able to work _________.

to have very strong feelings or emotions about something, - He is _________ the need to educate these children.

food that has gone bad or is decaying - We could not eat any of the apples because they had all gone _______.