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.
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Question: no one could suppose that he had been previously acquainted with or had lent himself to any of andrea's ____

Answer: intrigues

Question: i've never seen one but i can imagine what she would look like i don't ever expect to be a bride myself i'm so homely nobody will ever ____ to marry me unless it might be a foreign missionary i suppose a foreign missionary mightn't be very particular

Answer: want

Question: for the last month this wretched house had presented the gloomy appearance of a lazaretto infected with the plague some of the apartments were closed within and without ____ shutters were only opened to admit a minute's air showing the scared face of a footman

Answer:
the