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Each item contains 7 lines of text. In the middle of each line is a gap (a blank line). Which word fits in all of the gaps in each set? Use the drop-down menu to make your choice. If you choose an incorrect word, it will appear next to the drop-down list. Keep trying until you choose the right word. When you finish the quiz, you will see your score. Click START OVER to try the quiz again.
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word/phrase fits all the gaps in each set? (Corpus=corpus_awl.txt )
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[001] his perpetual justification empties the heart of all _____ feeling. The emptier our hearts become, the greater
[002] not done with style or verve. It is the gait of the _____ who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swi
[003] was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the _____ body, but multiplied innumerable times because of th
[004] sensibilities. Water, air, fruit, poetry, music, the _____ form- these things are important to Persians, and th
[005] to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all _____ truth there is some error, and in all our error, som
[006] about its applicability to people. Will advances in _____ sciences help us build social structures and governm
[007] re are certainly large areas of understanding in the _____ sciences which in themselves and even without politi
[008] nly not adequately trained to describe or enlarge on _____ fears, but there are certain features of the fears d
[009] and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of _____ action has been more adequately indicated. Appa
[010] Beckett's writing had seemed permeated with love for _____ beings and with a kind of humor that I could reconci
[011] ve. Though sex in some form or other enters into all _____ activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasiz
[012] as a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of _____ nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in ter
[013] a with far greater force, as a unifying principle in _____ relationships, than at any other time except, perhap
[014] on the sinister dreams which form the sources of any _____ life. The music which La^utner has composed for
[015] ual qualities, and complete objectification in sub- _____ and quasi-mechanistic powers. The image of the world
[016] om. Aristotle also tended to stratify all aspects of _____ nature and activity into levels of excellence and, l
[017] on the top level. The Poetics, in affirming that all _____ arts are "modes of imitation", gives a more serious
[018] the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important _____ truths. For both Plato and Aristotle artistic mimesi
[019] ain presuppositions concerning the nature of primary _____ experience which require some exposition before the
[020] hilosophical scepticism. Whitehead contends that the _____ way of understanding existence as a unity of interlo
[021] ciple of divine justice. Each aspired to be a god in _____ form, but with each it was a different kind of god.
[022] ortance comparable with that of production and other _____ factors, a point like f in Figure 2 would (other th
[023] done only by assuring a humane society; and for this _____ beings must be firmly in control of the economics on
[024] e economics on which our society rests. Such genuine _____ leadership the proprietorship can offer, corporation
[025] can establish a meaningful identity, representing a _____ personality, and thus establish sincere relationship
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[001] or implicit burden the cruelty and injustice of the _____ domination. And these days, of course, in terms incr
[002] bilant, it speaks of the end of that domination. The _____ policeman standing on a Harlem street corner finds h
[003] ssibly much more to the point, he is exposed, as few _____ people are, to the anguish of the black people aroun
[004] lls to expand, and this expansion is always violent. _____ people hold the line as long as they can, and in as
[005] of the world falls into the hands of the ghetto. The _____ people fall back bitterly before the black horde; th
[006] is "worse". I know Negroes who prefer the South and _____ Southerners, because "At least there, you haven't go
[007] ere is but one great difference between the Southern _____ and the Northerner: the Southerner remembers, histor
[008] s addressing the Assembly shocked and baffled most _____ Americans. Stevenson's speech, and the spectacular d
[009] disguised- that Negroes are, somehow, different from _____ people, I do not see how one can escape the conclusi
[010] he schism between central city and suburb, Negro and _____ , blue collar and
[011] , blue collar and _____ collar can be viewed as symptomatic of this deeper p
[012] lmers' assistants, Menshikov went abroad gorgeous in _____ tie and tails. Overnight he became the most availabl
[013] e out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by _____ Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississipp
[014] ing, it seemed, a "high yellow gal" smooching with a _____ man. It is true, of course, that the end or objectiv
[015] of injustice is clear also in light of the fact that _____ Citizens' Councils seem resolved to maintain segrega
[016] on people the color of whose skins happens not to be _____ ". Both the conditions and the complicity are documen
[017] e just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the _____ House, in offices of key scientists across the count
[018] ees of horizon it obscured only a degree, no more. A _____ man would not have seen it. The aborigines fastene
[019] ght sky peeping down at them. No one came". The _____ men died. And countless others like them have died.
[020] of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk- _____ rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls
[021] rs has forsaken the firmly entrenched concept of the _____ -suited big-daddy colonel sipping a mint julep as he
[022] in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the _____ -dominated society, a problem that has been reflected
[023] al rebellion. He has frequently refused to move from _____ lunch counters, refused to obey local laws which he
[024] phously defined socio-political organizations of the _____ man. The modern Negro has not made a decisive deb
[025] suhs" and "sho' nufs" with blissful deference to his _____ employer (or, in Old South terms, "massuh"), this st
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[001] gregation show by their friendly attitudes that they _____ for new people; the new people respond in kind by jo
[002] ning and in receiving guests. They learn how to take _____ of children and sick members of the family. They hav
[003] he final stages of Reconstruction and they will take _____ of themselves. Or else the North really believes tha
[004] ow. I followed them in the jeep and now they did not _____ . The games were over, this was life. Occasionally, f
[005] of the imminence of some natural disaster. In child _____ , the opposite extreme prevails; procedures change ra
[006] were the beneficiaries of responsible, paternalistic _____ . Emerson- Platonist, idealist, doctrinaire- sound
[007] onjures up before us the bazaars of Damascus. In the _____ -free indolence of the East he sees the last reflecti
[008] ed. In the end, he gets his man, but no one seems to _____ ; virtue is its own and only reward. A similar tone o
[009] her too stupid to catch the killer or too corrupt to _____ . In either case, they do not appreciate the private
[010] lly landing in India was sent to her mother: "I _____ not how soon we reach Calcutta, and are placed in a
[011] d Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take _____ of her needs. Mama said she was one of the prettiest
[012] assured me that the hospital expense would be taken _____ of by a leading merchant in Strasbourg whom she had
[013] lank movement or an advance was to gain time to take _____ of his horses. Well led, properly organized caval
[014] book is coming out, isn't it? but if you are able + _____ to come, you know how glad I shall be. Ever you
[015] Instead she waited for Alfred to get better and take _____ of her. Spring was life- and Alfred Alpert in his
[016] e accuracy of the basic inventory information, great _____ is being taken that the inventory is as complete as
[017] tment of Defense on instruction in emergency medical _____ , the Medical Illustration Service developed casualty
[018] e to him and draws these resources into play, taking _____ to examine at least some of the raw material which u
[019] ional-type to missile-type warfare must be made with _____ , mindful that the one type of warfare cannot be safe
[020] r weapon system is now so enormous that the greatest _____ must be exercised in selecting new systems for devel
[021] behavior for the here and now. Overwhelmed with the _____ of five young children and concerned about persisten
[022] rning the welfare of the entire family. Inability to _____ for the other children, difficulty in feeding the ba
[023] r temporary economic aid, intelligent use of nursing _____ , accompaniment to the well-baby clinic for medical a
[024] and social worker indicated continued success in the _____ of the new babies as well as a marked improvement in
[025] variety of concrete social resources- homemaker, day _____ , medical and financial aid- must be reasonably avail
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[001] hich is precisely what, and where, he is, and is the _____ he walks in twos and threes. And he is not the only
[002] iences came to see the movement, there seemed little _____ to adventure further. Motion-picture exhibitions too
[003] y dates from The Great Train Robbery, and there is a _____ for the continued popularity of the device. The chas
[004] ate Department than a displeased congressman. The _____ for this bears explaining for those who may wonder w
[005] st a conspiracy of silence veiling it. I suppose the _____ is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the
[006] games were over, this was life. Occasionally, for no _____ that I could see, they would suddenly alter the angl
[007] lant a fork and spoon. Events occur without apparent _____ . Their consequences are irrelevant- or there are no
[008] spel our present fears. Lucretius has remarked: "The _____ why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they
[009] ith graceful flattery, bearing tidings of the Age of _____ . "Not this. This is clear. This does not allow the m
[010] he expression of ungratified sexual desire. For this _____ , too, their language is more forthright and earthy.
[011] existential alienation. The mind has betrayed them, _____ is the foe of life; they will trust only their physi
[012] and finally confesses that she loves sex and sees no _____ why she must justify her passion. If it is an honest
[013] reflection of the old happy existence, and for that _____ he loves it. And yet amid all the gay hedonism in Pi
[014] sible to no one but himself and his client. For this _____ , he appears as an independent and self-reliant figur
[015] national problems? Man, we are told, is endowed with _____ and is capable of distinguishing good from bad. But
[016] tellectual relations. Reactionary theories, for this _____ , usually assume some form of organismic theory. In i
[017] happening, and this is especially difficult for the _____ that "we are busily being defended from a knowledge
[018] tle argue, although this may not be an observational _____ in favor of circularity. The discoid shapes of sun a
[019] pler' than Ptolemaic. Some even say that this is the _____ for the ultimate acceptance of the former. Thus, Mar
[020] in Copernicus' formulation does not provide another _____ for the acceptance of De Revolutionibus, another
[021] for the acceptance of De Revolutionibus, another _____ beyond its systematic superiority. It provides exact
[022] systematic superiority. It provides exactly the same _____ . 1543 A.D. is often venerated as the birthday of
[023] l be " w", and "that" will be " tt". The second _____ for his popularity is his complete spontaneity with
[024] his cited Bang-Jensen's 'aberrant conduct'". "The _____ for that report was to settle the matter of the list
[025] your press conference three days later- what was the _____ for that? Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents t
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[001] Everything, thereafter, is permitted him except the _____ he remembers and has never ceased to need. The resul
[002] the actual location of the unjust policy which, for _____ 's sake and for the sake of justice, must be removed,
[003] word of God are for them concentrated in Christlike _____ , it seems clear to them that non-violent resistance
[004] tainly assert the great difference between Christian _____ and any form of resistance, and then go on beyond th
[005] ond the Mennonite position and affirm that Christian _____ -in-action must first justify and then determine the
[006] . It was not a pet. It was a worker. "The buggers _____ shade", the rancher said. "I suppose because it save
[007] most important to the most ordinary. The men crying _____ poems in an orchard on any summer's night are as oft
[008] one inducing pleasure, another generosity, another _____ , and so on, to include all of the emotions. The sing
[009] ith a thousand foes, and he was one". Or the mode of _____ to this fragment by a recent poet: "Know ye, fair fo
[010] lies. In this true lover's tomb interred A world of _____ lies sepulchred ...". These songs (practically
[011] Hamilton counseled the young nation. This new force, _____ of country, super-imposed upon- if not displacing- a
[012] whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and _____ ". All sought the fruition of that nationalism in
[013] tanding of and belief in the federal balance, and in _____ of their Union. Repeated efforts- beginning with the
[014] ut to me Beckett's writing had seemed permeated with _____ for human beings and with a kind of humor that I cou
[015] nsity they reveal what they hate, but their faith in _____ , inspired by the revolutionary rhythms of jazz, culm
[016] gaged in a systematic derangement of senses. If _____ reflects the nature of man, as Ortega y Gasset belie
[017] f man, as Ortega y Gasset believes, if the person in _____ betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in
[018] betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in _____ , then the writers of the beat generation are creatin
[019] ry briefly here and revert to in a later essay. _____ is the crucial dilemma of experience for Mann's hero
[020] someone is simultaneously compelled and forbidden to _____ . The release, the freedom, involved in loving anothe
[021] toward it brings disaster. This prohibition on _____ has an especially poignant relation to art; it is pa
[022] fers from it. The specific analogy to the dilemma of _____ is the problem of the "breakthrough" in the realm of
[023] by any transgression against the commandment not to _____ are almost invariably associated in one way or anoth
[024] ially middle-class, he is compelled by an impossible _____ to exhibit himself dressed up, disguised- that is, p
[025] ndividualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor _____ reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic
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[001] arrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an _____ with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end- el
[002] a center orchestra seat at a play. The plane of the _____ in the scene is not parallel with the plane of the f
[003] congregation. (Co-optation means to choose by joint _____ in order to fill a vacancy; it can also mean the ass
[004] ous exclusiveness have fought a desperate, rearguard _____ against the expanding interdependence of the metropo
[005] gregation of certain lunch counters not only by wise _____ by local community leaders but by voluntary
[006] by local community leaders but by voluntary _____ following consultation between Attorney General Roge
[007] rument, and therefore of questionable justification. _____ located where the evil is concentrated will prove mo
[008] to fall when pushed, the results of direct economic _____ everywhere upon national chain stores will likely be
[009] s true, of course, that the end or objective of this _____ was different. But since this is a world in which pe
[010] nd injustice, and since, in a situation where direct _____ and economic pressure are called for, the justice of
[011] f more obviously brutal means. The end or aim of the _____ , of course, is also important, especially where it i
[012] inevitably) and not by deliberate intent and direct _____ against them. It is clear that non-violent resist
[013] It is clear that non-violent resistance is a mode of _____ in need of justification and limitation in Christian
[014] in non-violent resistance will be convinced that his _____ is based on sounder values than those of his opponen
[015] Mennonite position and affirm that Christian love-in- _____ must first justify and then determine the moral prin
[016] ifying either on occasion and always limiting either _____ . Economy in the use of power means more than inflict
[017] eration a hard case which seems to require either no _____ employing economic pressure or else
[018] employing economic pressure or else _____ that would seem to violate the principles set forth
[019] onal government assumed the responsibility of taking _____ to insure conditions of maximum employment. Hands-of
[020] lly yellow- phones connects him with the offices and _____ stations of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chie
[021] bellum years of hesitation, uncertainty, and lack of _____ from the Negro in defining his new role in the amorp
[022] s all subjectively motivated continuity, any line of _____ related to the concept of cause and effect. He bases
[023] by compromise, rather than clear thought and timely _____ . Even so, confusion in this period gained such stren
[024] efused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union _____ even in the Border States that stayed with the Union
[025] ce our former elaborate rituals with the appropriate _____ which, in this case, amounts to doing nothing. Yet w
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[001] ch the church on the Via d. Baullari you are passing _____ yards of the remains of the Roman Theatre of Pompey,
[002] ove to New York, they move to Harlem. The pressure _____ the ghetto causes the ghetto walls to expand, and th
[003] ading to greater decentralization and local autonomy _____ the company, or even (as the final self-defeat of an
[004] aintained an adequate measure of certainty and order _____ its territorial borders. Outside those limits it ass
[005] responsibility existed for the welfare of the people _____ the territorial state was strongly resisted. Social
[006] east, broadened the capacity for individual liberty. _____ their confines, moreover, technological and industri
[007] accidental war is a silent guest at the discussions _____ the Kennedy Administration about the urgency of disa
[008] e first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box _____ Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle
[009] sion could be made and announced on the gold circuit _____ minutes after the first flash from BMEWS. If c
[010] t matter) are limited to a range of two octaves. Yet _____ this limitation there is an astonishing variety: des
[011] tra in 1958, he conducted one hundred fifty concerts _____ nine months, "commuting" between the two cities. Thi
[012] ociety with the rapidity of an avalanche- especially _____ recent decades. As the New South snowballs toward fu
[013] rned himself with these matters; such are simply not _____ his bounded province. Where are the writers to tr
[014] himself upon another. His light blue eyes, set deep _____ the face, are actively and continually looking. He s
[015] ut that she moves toward the dark. That is the play. _____ this notion clarity is possible, but for us who are
[016] he plays. He says nothing that compresses experience _____ a closed pattern. "Perhaps" stands in place of commi
[017] curb his instinctual desires but release the energy _____ him that makes him feel truly and fully alive, even
[018] r the influence of marijuana the beatnik comes alive _____ and experiences a wonderfully enhanced sense of self
[019] reenness. From high in the tree, the whole block lay _____ range of the eye, but the ground was almost nowhere
[020] other. They bring an inextricable component of value _____ themselves, with attractions and repulsions native t
[021] , such as "The Spark": "There is a spark dwells deep _____ my soul. To get it out into the daylight's glow Is m
[022] sually in a room small enough so that all guests are _____ sight and hearing of one another. The information is
[023] Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive _____ Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American c
[024] individual having purpose and comprehensive ability _____ one mind. When we "forced" individuals to assume the
[025] nse with the other socialistic form that has emerged _____ governmental bureaucracy. But while the corporation
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[001] e, about one hundred yards on your right, you pass a _____ restaurant, La Sacrestia, where you can have the bes
[002] diences began staying away in large numbers from the _____ -minded, one-minute shows. In response, the industry
[003] revolver straight at the audience. All this is _____ enough, but in telling the story Porter did two impo
[004] oup of geniuses any art has seen. In that apparently _____ shift Porter opened the way to the sensitive use of
[005] and from stage to stage of the journey of both. The _____ , naked idea of one man chasing another is of its nat
[006] en five miles southwest ... that sort of thing. Very _____ ". He was right. The landscape kept repeating itse
[007] pure movement, have tended to dress their dancers in _____ lines and solid colors (often black) and to give the
[008] elestial motions. This understanding provides a very _____ example of the fact that one can eliminate fear with
[009] My wish to meet Samuel Beckett had been prompted by _____ curiosity and interest in his work. American newspap
[010] to the churchyard belongs to death. But that is too _____ , and won't hold up. As the first sentence suggests,
[011] nd they drive Praisegod Piepsam away. This is _____ enough, but several more points of interest may be m
[012] orse we cannot regard "imitation" in the arts in the _____ mode of classical rationalism or detached realism. A
[013] ed. Thus the fictional detective is much more than a _____ businessman. He is, first and foremost, a defender
[014] , nothing raises more surely for us the difficulties _____ goodness faces in dealing with complex moral problem
[015] mands in such a situation is quite distinct from the _____ courage that can proceed with battles to be fought,
[016] anent structure of the society. The first involves a _____ shift of interests in the society. The second involv
[017] e of himself. Its massive contours are rooted in the _____ need of man, since he is always incomplete, to compl
[018] y". Others call it "alienation", and mean by that no _____ economic experience (as Marx does) but a deep spirit
[019] t of existence. Moreover its posture of stubborn but _____ resistance is doomed to failure because of the metap
[020] , when Mr. O'Donnell wrote his essay, reveal no such _____ attitude toward the South. If he is a traditionalist
[021] ity. The number of primitive ideas in systematically- _____ theories is reduced to a minimum. The axioms require
[022] character is either foolhardy, overconfident or too _____ and childlike in faith in mankind to see the danger.
[023] Although it is constantly made to look foolish (too _____ to come in out of the rain, people say, who have fou
[024] her hair, everything about her is both graceful and _____ . She has small, broad, capable hands and an enormous
[025] d a loaf of Indian bread. I can hardly think of this _____ fare without exclaiming, oh, what a luxury. I have
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[001] Donato Bramante's most beautiful creations. Now _____ to the Piazza Navona and leave it on the opposite si
[002] at Nasser was ready to make a concrete commitment in _____ for Israeli concessions. The deep water is used by m
[003] can always find work immediately. Occasionally they _____ for additional training. Masu's home economics train
[004] , as well as concerts in Munich and Cologne. "Then I _____ to the United States for engagements at the Hollyw
[005] hat too". "But you want a job guaranteed when you _____ ", I continued my attack. "You must have some securit
[006] st long voyage I did not even have the money for the _____ fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a su
[007] th the catastrophes of Mann's stories. We shall _____ to these statements and deal with them more fully as
[008] an classic style now in existence. On the eve of his _____ to their native Naxos he speaks with his wife of the
[009] y or another the same song. Its refrain was: "Let us _____ to the individualistic democracy of our forefathers
[010] lai Stevenson expressed some reservations about this _____ . Others invoked technology and common sense. Only Wa
[011] l reserve discussion of it for a moment, however, to _____ to President Kennedy. As symptomatic of the common m
[012] ished from England in 1290 and were not permitted to _____ before 1655, when Shakespeare had been dead for thir
[013] process of disruption rapidly reaches a point of no _____ . Indeed, it is probable that this point is reached t
[014] ion: the situation in which man is no longer free to _____ to a status quo ante. At that point men become aware
[015] that, unlike the Mondrian school, Helion "sought a _____ path to the fullness of nature within the framework
[016] zenship; but after war came to Europe, he decided to _____ to France, arriving there in January, 1940. "I hated
[017] will and love of life. After that, he declared, "to _____ to freedom was to fall to one's knees before the rea
[018] s of completely perfect celestial existence. To _____ now to the four-element physics, a mixture of muddy,
[019] or Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his _____ on January 22, except that the Secretary General wou
[020] begun some years before. The film they did after his _____ was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out of
[021] k had been mailed from Chicago, the envelope bore no _____ address, and the check was not signed. "That's
[022] uffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to _____ to the dry climate of the West to live and work.
[023] ly ignore the contemporary scene. He will frequently _____ to it. The continuities, contrasts, and similarities
[024] enter Germany and, as a matter of fact, no permit to _____ to France once I leave". That was all they need
[025] ew Year put an end to that project. I wish you would _____ them to her. I have not the heart. ... I never had