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Read the excerpt from “a century ride.” it seemed to coax her, to whisper of the long, lonely stretch ahead, of the indians in their tepees, in the hollow; of a host of vague and nameless terrors; of how lonely and weary and defenseless she was, on that vast plain, twenty-five miles—twenty-five miles—and the half-way house flashed past and was soon left far behind! which word in the excerpt the reader to determine the meaning of “vague”? a. whisper b. lonely c. nameless d. far

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