pay; repay; place; replace 1. Finally the book was published. That ______ all the sleepless nights over those three years. 2. We can not only ______ our workers good wages, we can also ______ all our loans. 3. She was criticized for trying to ______ her daughter in a government job. 4. I don’t know what I can do to ______ your kindness. 5. Several reports were ______ on my desk to be signed. One of them said that our chief computer was out of date and needed to be ______ .