reading... listenung

brace oneself for

to prepare yourself physically or mentally for something unpleasant: Before working with people as a psychiatrist you need to ___ ____ for tough cases through your own therapy.

fine by me

Whatever the people want is ___ ___ ___

shed light on sth

to provide information about something or to make something easier to understand: He was never able to __ __ __how an average kid from upstate New York came to commit the worst act of domestic terrorism in history.