My deskmate admires my fluent English very much and I usually feel   (encourage) by his compliments.
One day, when we learned the new word “eccentric” in class , we   (ask) to make a sentence with it. I volunteered to do     by saying “My deskmate is an eccentric boy      clothes never fit him.”      (hear) this, the whole class burst into     (laugh) and my deskmate’s face turned red.     class, I learned from the teacher that my deskmate would have dropped       of school if he hadn’t been helped by others. My mindless words must      (hurt) him deeply.
Not until then did I realize words could be     (power) in both positive and negative ways. We should avoid hurting others if we can’t always be encouraging when we speak.