Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE word you think appropriate. Honesty is not praised much these days. We pay it some lip (1)_________ , of course, and we tell our children to be honest in their dealings and with their feelings. But many of us would (2) _________have our children be shrewd than honest. We want them to learn how to be suspicious, how to protect themselves, and how to ward (3)_________ fast-talking people and nicely packaged, well-advertised distortions of reality. “Chumps,” as I once heard the term defined, (4)_________“people who go out of their way to be taken (5) _________of” — and we don’t want ourselves or our children to be chumps. Therefore we hesitate to praise honesty too (6)_________ , or to encourage it at the expense of common sense, or expediency or the pressures of practicality and the “real world.” Even experts in interpersonal (7) _________tell us that too much honesty can destroy a relationship. Honesty now looks like a dubious virtue (8)_________not an actual vice. It is studied and examined as a stratagem rather than (9)_________a hallmark of character. Despite our contemporary discomfort with too much honesty, the quality remains central to our (10)_________codes and counsels. Deceptions subvert the moral life, and destroy the foundations of our social arrangements. Whatever basis for humane communion is to be found in (11) _________ principles of respect for persons or faith in God is eroded by our failures to treat each other as persons worthy of being told the (12) _________ .