Directions: Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words. 

It was a year like no other. Amid the massive ______(1)______ inflicted by a global pandemic, ____(2)_____ political divisions and racial unrest that exploded into violence, glimmers of light shone through the darkness. 

Frontline medical workers and those in other essential jobs risked their own ____(3)_____ to help others. _____(4)______ of protesters took to the streets in a widespread outcry over systemic racism and injustice. And, by year's end, tens of millions of Americans cast their votes in a presidential election, mailing in ballots or heading to the polls in larger numbers than ever before in the nation’s _____(5)______.