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from the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. some words
will not be used.
this are the words:
humility, dolorous, agrarian, gadfly, epistles,
avid, explicit, formidable, gargantuan

the atmosphere at aunt agnes’s farmhouse was _1_
during the wake. no one could believe that agnes was
gone. at least, they reasoned, the _2_ equestrian died
while doing something that she loved. there was no
definite explanation as to why agnes’s horse bucked her
off, but by the looks of the _3_ animal tracks, the horse
had been spooked by a _4_ wolf, perhaps the largest
ever seen.
the threat of wolves was nothing new to the _5_
van ness family, who had been farming the
northern valley for six generations. wolves had
attacked horses on the farm in the past, especially
during extremely cold winters such as this one.
children on the farm always had _6_ instructions to
stay within sight of the house, but sometimes not
even that was enough to protect the family from the
hungry, silver predators.
needing a break, vicky wandered up the stairway
to the second floor. memories of her youth flashed
through her head as she entered agnes’s room and
sat on the corner of the bed. that’s when she
noticed the dusty corner of an old shoebox
protruding from beneath the vanity. curious, vicky
retrieved the box and, to her surprise, she found
thirty years of hand-written _7_, some of which
were for agnes, and some of which agnes never
sent