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]: debray could but give her advice she must apply to some one more powerful ____ he
[EX A]: than

[EX Q]: but missus rachel lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain she was a notable ____ her work was always done and well done she ran the sewing circle
[EX A]: housewife

[EX Q]: set about on one side with great patriarchal willows and the other with prim lombardies not a stray stick nor stone was to be seen for missus rachel would have seen it if there had been privately she ____ of the opinion that marilla cuthbert swept that yard over as often as she swept her house
[EX A]:
was