You are given an English sentence with a blank, and you need to predict the missing word. After completing, the whole sentence should be gramatically correct and non-ambiguous.

[EX Q]: no matter what mistake had been made so all questions and explanations might as well be ____ until he was safely back at green gables i'm sorry i was late he said shyly come along the horse is over in the yard give me your bag oh i can carry it the child responded cheerfully
[EX A]: deferred

[EX Q]: for in a society such as ours satire inflicts ____ painful and incurable wound
[EX A]: a

[EX Q]: a child of about eleven garbed in ____ very short very tight very ugly dress of yellowish gray wincey she wore a faded brown sailor hat and beneath the hat extending down her back were two braids of very thick decidedly red hair
[EX A]:
a