After the meeting was over, the secretary _____ the new workers to the master’s office.

I was grateful to Anna for being open and giving me the opportunity to explain and ______ the misunderstanding between us.

—Hi, I hear you’re going to London this summer vacation.                    

—            , I was going to, but now I have changed my plan.

At the end of the year 2010, some species of birds ddn’t survive the _____ winter in some European countries.

The only drawback of the voyage was the ______ sea, which made me very seasick.

We need to spend more time researching these suggestions so that we can make a(n)      choice.

The sentence doesn’t make any             , no matter how you read it.      

The term paper was due to December 1, but hard as he tried, he was unable to meet the _____ for it.

I like to put everything            so that I can find it easily.            

It was a cold winter. The day my husband fell to his death, it started to snow, just  31 any November day. His   32 , when I found it, was lightly covered with snow. It snowed almost every day for the next four months, while I sat on the couch and watched it   33 . One morning, I walked slowly   34  and was surprised to see a snow remover clearing my driveway and the bent back of a woman clearing my walk. I dropped to my knees and crawled back upstairs,  35 those good people would not see me. I was   36 . My first thought was, how would I ever  37 them? I didn’t have the  38 to brush my hair,   39 clear someone’s walk.

Before Jon’s death, I felt proud that I   40 asked for favors. I identified myself by my competence and  41 . So who was I if I was no longer capable? How could I   42 myself if I just sat on the couch every day and watched the snow fall?

Learning to receive the love and   43 from others wasn’t easy. Friends cooked for me and I cried. Finally, my friend Kathy said, “Mary, cooking for you isn’t a   44 for me; it makes me feel good to be able to do something for you.”

Over and over, I heard   45 words from the people who supported me during those  46 days. One wise man told me, “You aren’t doing nothing because being fully open to your  47 may be the hardest work you will ever do.”

I am not the person I   48 was, but in many ways I have changed for the   49 . I’ve been surprised to learn that there is incredible freedom coming form  50 one’s worst fear and walking away whole. I believe there is strength, for sure, in accepting a dark period of our life.