someone help me please


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