distractors: acknowledge conclude recognize
sentence: As  he gave out the bread to the children (mostly handicapped), he  received  cheers and bows from these  unfortunate  children.For the first time in his life, he understood  how  people could give up their  dignity  for a loaf of bread.He came to  [MASK]  how fortunate he was to be able to have a sound body, have a job, have a family, have the chance to  complain  about food that didn't taste good, and have the many things that these people in front of him  never  dreamed of having.Perhaps life wasn't bad at all.