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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] at **f tension. The tensioning members have a common _____ so that the application of restorative force takes p
[002] up swamps and irrigating the desert. A fund-raising _____ to buy tractors and machinery was launched. Andrei r
[003] ture and her voice clear and rather sharp. "Now _____ carefully, for God's sake"! she called, trying to at
[004] the fields all day, and she would get in the car and _____ to wherever he was working, to take him a fresh hot
[005] or those movers"! Winston watched him hurry down the _____ to his car; a handsome, fine-looking man it made him
[006] and the big pink peonies had been blooming along the _____ , and he had walked up from the bus almost singing. M
[007] rush right now. I know where the car is. Want me to _____ it out"? "I'll have one of the boys get it", he s
[008] said. "It's one of the rules on transients. Regulars _____ out their own cars". "Make it as snappy as you
[009] unger can be a gnawing torture. I had noticed a _____ -in down the road a quarter of a mile. The batteries
[010] so hungry. I got in the car, drove down to the _____ -in and ordered a couple of hamburgers with everythin
[011] , "You heard what he said about police? Why don't we _____ around the corner"? The car door crashed shut. Th
[012] me cars here. I wonder if one of you gentlemen could _____ me back to town? I'd be happy to pay for the favor,
[013] for help. Perhaps they had a car or truck and would _____ him into town. Then he realized the utter futility o
[014] e block back to the cocktail lounge on Biscayne. You _____ on and circle back and pull up beside them parked th
[015] es. Then he backed out and swung around to the front _____ . He went into the hotel and searched till he found t
[016] ent back once more to the Jeep and started the short _____ to the hotel. In the garage he checked the Jeep f
[017] or so". On the highway he relaxed and enjoyed the _____ over Lake Pontchartrain and along the coast. Gu
[018] ets to railroad stations and, at odd hours of night, _____ from smaller stations to distant homes, probably thr
[019] oin the others. They would sleep while the Gabriel's _____ would increase the acceleration to a point which the
[020] red speed, the automatic equipment would cut off the _____ , and the silent but not empty vessel would hurl towa
[021] ed. Then, after slowing the vessel considerably, the _____ would adjust to a one-gee deceleration. And the crew
[022] lay months away from the nearest Earth star by jump _____ , and no one knew what they were good for, although i
[023] ion of this or that small happening during the day's _____ . But they deliberately avoided the one subject that
[024] and, having spotted his approach, was determined to _____ him off before he could get into the fight. Cursi
[025] d drinking ..." ## Mrs. Roebuck very kindly let me _____ through Sante Fe to a road which would, she said, le
3. WORDS
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[001] e radiation are foreseen. Such projections, however, _____ highly speculative and the capacities involved are f
[002] ge intensifiers based upon the multipactor principle _____ to hold promise as far as obtainable resolution is c
[003] atic aberrations. Furthermore, the thin film dynodes _____ to have a natural diameter limitation wherever a mes
[004] right key, and then divine justice and altruism will _____ . It's like focusing a camera; the distant ship isn't
[005] at a clue to his dislike of the Vice President would _____ . It did not. Therefore, he decided he was unfair to
[006] dproof. Then the audience saw a small, dim figure _____ at the edge of the Presidential box. "Sic semper tyr
[007] ess in music and have to reject it. Or at least _____ to reject it! But what else could he do? You coul
[008] ould make one want to weep. But no. He couldn't _____ as a composer now. That glory, craved for so long, w
[009] Royal Academy", he suggested. "Your name will never _____ . No one will even suspect that it is your work".
[010] at was your answer"? Jean Jacques asked, striving to _____ unimpressed. "I refused", Duclos said. "What else
[011] end holding his head and wiping his hot brow. It may _____ that we were cruel and callous, but no one had time
[012] tches to loosen up his thinking so that images would _____ on paper. Visually, these approximated what he was f
[013] She has a pretty bad cold". "I would like them to _____ very busy today, not busy exactly, but joyous, exube
[014] the silence. Not really startled, but careful to _____ so, Grosse sucked noisily on his pipe. Vince cursed
[015] ons to lie down in the road in all those clothes and _____ as though you might wish to turn yourself out of you
[016] hich had invested him at other times like those that _____ sometimes near the eyeballs when they are perhaps
[017] am room of the athletic club. Whenever he deigned to _____ at the studio he was "hung over", uncooperative, rud
[018] er's Digest are familiar with such items which often _____ in its lists of verbal slips, like the ad in a Calif
[019] clips of band members even though the band does not _____ in the film and the song is not included on the sound
[020] compounds called proanthocyanidins. These compounds _____ to work by restraining Escherichia coli, the leading
[021] capacitated, the durable power of attorney will likely _____ as a minor miracle to those close to you. We bring
[022] dable adjectives and the constructions in which they _____ , ranging from the syntactic distribution of gradable
[023] could accomplish with little effort. Again it would _____ that von Neumann's 'almost perfect' memory played a l
[024] s trying to conceive for the first time. Her findings _____ in Friday's edition of British Medical Journal. The m
[025] acker clan known as Global Hell who was scheduled to _____ in Dallas Wednesday to plead guilty to federal charg
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[001] ation is uniquely determined by **f and we therefore _____ of the process as deterministic. In practical situat
[002] ion D of the stage space is **f. We cannot now _____ of maximizing the value of the objective function, s
[003] cotty drove home alone in the Plymouth. They did not _____ much. Scotty gazed out at ugly gray slums and said s
[004] uch him. Scotty watched with disinterest. He did not _____ . He had no desire to. She said, "Do you think y
[005] was frowning. "That doctor annoys me". She seemed to _____ to herself. "Do you suppose his self-consciousness i
[006] mediately calmed his worries about his reception: "I _____ English", the old man said, "but I do not hear it ve
[007] "Everybody does". Ludie could be hateful. To _____ of Papa dying was a sin. It could never happen as lo
[008] f stomach, rose. Every eye was on him as he began to _____ . "What Master Calvin says is true. How can we hav
[009] grasped what Michelangelo was after, and promised to _____ to his friends .... He worked for two hours a day wi
[010] his own approaches. When Alexander Brandel rose to _____ , the hall became silent. "I do not care if your b
[011] expression in the world. We didn't have time to _____ before Eileen's voice was screeching at us from the
[012] not deny his presence. Perhaps it would be better to _____ to him, since silence could not exorcise his form. W
[013] th a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to _____ , and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud sh
[014] and groom. Mr. Black's life was an open book, so to _____ , from his birth in Jackson, Mississippi, through his
[015] genial smile seemed painted on his face. Angie knew- _____ of dangerous information! Angie knew too much entire
[016] k there was any reason to". "Maybe there isn't. _____ to him again anyway. Try talking to some of the fell
[017] g Alec had heard during their fight. "Don't you _____ English"? The man opened his mouth wider. A foref
[018] ting in his enthusiasm that he had not been asked to _____ . Macneff stopped pacing to stare at Hal with his
[019] r cherished self. I had thought we would never again _____ to each other". #5# THE Gabriel pointed towards he
[020] to teach the entire personnel of the Gabriel how to _____ Ozagen. Yet, if he used all of the little means at h
[021] the penalty on Hesperus is lifted. Hesperus, you may _____ ". "I did not perceive this essential distinction
[022] None of the men hanging around the hall bothered to _____ to him. Baldness was attacking his pate. He spoke to
[023] ht you no more". Nate turned his head, attempting to _____ in a soothing voice. "I know you ain't"! Dan affi
[024] own the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not _____ at all. Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the
[025] survival there. Often, I heard my uncles and cousins _____ of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul. T
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[001] was an oil painting of a nude Al had accepted from a _____ at the Corcoran Gallery who needed to eat and drink
[002] ss on the Gold Coast, that I had once been a medical _____ and was thinking of returning to the university to
[003] word and felt closer grokking. Repeating it like a _____ telling himself that the jewel is in the lotus he sa
[004] s life in Asian studies. Richard was a solitary _____ in New York and acquired, in his remoteness, a thoro
[005] he had replaced his biwa with a friend. An American _____ named Charlotte Adams had refused to take notice of
[006] studied very hard. Getting elected president of the _____ body took a lot of time and politicking. ## He p
[007] heater, swimming team, and had been president of the _____ forum as well as treasurer of the science club. H
[008] got turned down by Dartmouth and he is a straight- A _____ ". Anne said it wasn't surprising because Charles
[009] ry, but, Cady, Dave was only acting president of the _____ forum for a few days. That was when half the school
[010] they do different social roles (e.g., husband, boss, _____ ). Depending on the situation, individuals act differ
[011] u can announce the song yourself. Castaldo, fellow _____ Sean Graves and the families of shooting survivors P
[012] their missile capability. Firstly, If you are a new _____ who has applied through TISC then you are given the
[013] f study for the first semester of your enrolment. _____ campaigners, how- ever, fear that the report will be
[014] y 2000. Whatever the leanings of parliament, however, _____ finance in Scotland seems set to change as early as
[015] and evaluation techniques are so crucial for today's _____ . That much said, I should note that in my opinion the
[016] estion. During a lecture on Neurological Disorders, a _____ nurse asked me a question which sparked a small ray o
[017] say that was right 10, maybe even 5, years ago when _____ celebrations outside bars on Sunnyside Avenue includ
[018] cored the need for a voluntary national test to spur _____ achievement at pivotal stages in their educational de
[019] s. - which Mr. (Thomas D.) Perry attended as a music _____ during its opening season, in 1940 - was doubled to e
[020] e White Rose " (1982), a dramatic reconstruction of a _____ group that fought the Nazis. "My Mother's Courage,
[021] s satisfying desires for those items without which a _____ would feel ill- equipped (multiple swim-gear bags, N
[022] ucator whose last posting was as principal of an 850- _____ elementary school in Greenwich Village, has almost u
[023] the students' burdens. To do so, Iona has opened a _____ retention office, which provides incoming freshmen wi
[024] are, " said Brother J. Kevin Devlin, director of the _____ retention office. "We try to be their guide, their co
[025] tions company. Ms. Blair, a former dance and biology _____ at Purchase College, borrowed $40, 000 from her fami
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[001] parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own _____ and to a specialist at the University Hospital- Mr.
[002] he covers he had forgotten about seeing Kate. The _____ , since Scotty was no longer allowed to make his regu
[003] ed foot could tap the floor. Scotty did not mind the _____ 's unsmiling teasing as he used to. "Husky young
[004] "I don't go to school any more". "Pardon"? The _____ had to bend close to hear; his delicate hand, as vei
[005] again in a few days". Rachel stayed on after the _____ had gone. She smoothed the covers on Scotty's bed an
[006] d kiss him, then moved away. She was frowning. "That _____ annoys me". She seemed to speak to herself. "Do you
[007] the corridor door from the inside, and called for a _____ . Somehow Dr. Charles Leale was forced through the mo
[008] how sorry I was to hear about your baby. I wish our _____ could have saved her". "It was a terrible loss to
[009] ire that raged six days and nights. "But tell me, _____ , where do you plan to conduct the hatching"? Alex as
[010] x asked. "That will have to be in the hotel", the _____ retorted, confirming Alex's anticipations. "What I
[011] help smuggle the hen back into the hotel". The _____ paid the bill and they repaired to the hotel, room n
[012] tiate Alex further into these undertakings. The _____ opened the smallest of his cases, an unimposing stra
[013] time to contemplate them, however; in an instant the _____ was stalking across the room with an antique ledger
[014] of the breed. Alex's instruction was rapid, for the _____ had to go off to the Rue Ecole de Medecine to hear m
[015] wine to sustain him through them all. But after the _____ 's return that night Alex could see, from the high wi
[016] him at six o'clock the following morning. It was the _____ , dressed and ready for the expedition to the market,
[017] nd Alex was obliged to prepare himself in haste. The _____ stood about, waiting for Alex to dress, with a show
[018] street. The market was not far and, once there, the _____ 's sense of immediacy left him and he fell into a sta
[019] ed geese. The dawn progressed and it seemed that the _____ would never be done with his ministrations when quit
[020] of feathers in the under region of the abdomen. The _____ , with the air of a man whose professional interests
[021] rt of communication had been set up, nestling in the _____ 's arms. The clocks struck seven-thirty as they ap
[022] d began to rise in Alex's well exercised breast. The _____ was wearing a long New England greatcoat, hardly nec
[023] of hens. Alex entered first and was followed by the _____ who, for all his care, manifested a perceptible bulg
[024] had been out for a stroll before breakfast while the _____ edged around behind him, attempting to hide the pr
[025] separation of the persons before and behind him. The _____ , he noticed, was attempting a transverse movement to
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[001] and the shelf life of chicken can be extended to a _____ or more under refrigerated storage as compared with
[002] "Miss Rak. I am a Jew". Day by day, week by week, _____ by
[003] by _____ , the betrayal gnawed at Andrei's heart. He ground hi
[004] success as compared with Shelley's failure. The same _____ that Alastor was published, Murray sold twenty thous
[005] oesn't cost anything. They even pay me six dollars a _____ . I think it's a good deal. I'm going to become a goo
[006] for a date- I mean, after I'm out of the hospital, a _____ or so from now". "My father is a sergeant of dete
[007] ver, won't you"? "Yes, I'll get one overnight a _____ ". "We'll go up to the Edgewater Beach Hotel for d
[008] n business so long because I'm careful. Two weeks, a _____ , we talk it over again, and maybe if nothing happens
[009] In Dunston the rent would run close to two hundred a _____ ; in Medfield, perhaps twenty-five less, not all of i
[010] r case, as you would call it, till yesterday. One _____ ago, on the 20th of October, was the opening of the
[011] rough the long sluices. A million dollars' of gold a _____ . A million tons of rock and soil and brush. The m
[012] nded. It went to church on Sunday and one Saturday a _____ went to confession. But youth asked nothing of its p
[013] it. "She's in a mood", he thought "There's not a _____ she doesn't get herself in a mood". Well, what
[014] or emphasizing the finer aspects of his text. "Every _____ , f'r three days", he said happily, "I take no water
[015] the world. Ships from the West Coast rotated on six- _____ tours of duty with the Seventh Fleet, and Yokosuka
[016] one or another of the slick national magazines every _____ . Life had included him in its "Modern American Artis
[017] eek, when his doctor had prescribed it. "Take a full _____ ", the doctor had said. "Lots of sun, lots of rest. T
[018] le was not insurmountable .... They took nearly a _____ to investigate, marshal statistics, and put their ar
[019] in Catatonia. We didn't even know them till about a _____ after we moved- at that time, they had called on us,
[020] term, given the limited volatility seen over the past _____ as share prices have edged higher. From there, th
[021] ancestors as a potential future Pioneer Family of the _____ , as well. The artifacts, photographs, and biographic
[022] aphical records included in the Pioneer Family of the _____ exhibits at the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive
[023] Judicial Election Practices Committee, went out last _____ to each of the county's 27 judicial candidates. Schne
[024] 's historic celebration also marks the beginning of a _____ - long festivity throughout the country. Pomp and page
[025] p and pageantry will be the order of the day in this _____ -long festive season. The ruler will once again make
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[001] hard, sharp, tungsten carbide knife which is pushed _____ the substrate to remove the coating. The force requi
[002] strength of the coating and failure occurs by shear _____ a plane starting at the tip of the knife and extendi
[003] removed paint chip against the face of the knife and _____ the shear plane, which makes an angle |f with the s
[004] ckness t from the substrate. **f is the shear force _____ the shear plane; **f and **f are the thrust forces a
[005] usly without fracture, rupture intermittently occurs _____ the shear plane. The detailed mechanisms of this typ
[006] angle rapidly decreases. Eventually, rupture occurs _____ the shear plane (9 e), and the cycle repeats itself.
[007] formula, this curve may be moved forward or backward _____ the coordinates to produce any desired compression s
[008] for our noise". Soon they were picking their way _____ the edge of the stream which glowed in the night. On
[009] o grasp and embrace and sit in the back seat of cars _____ a dark country lane. No, they must look the other wa
[010] gress is full of politicians, and if you want to get _____ with them, you have to be politic. This is why I say
[011] beyond the Erie roundhouse and the machine shop, and _____ the Delaware and Hudson Canal, and northward to Broo
[012] trength at the heavy, brass-bound door, and shuffled _____ the wainscoted wall. The cold, mysterious presence o
[013] very front rank, two men were wounded and staggered _____ , trailing blood behind them. No drummers here, no pi
[014] and hung as sadly in the drizzle, creeping back down _____ the sopping canvas of the roof. Over the door w
[015] dy of the anatomy of folds. He improvised as he went _____ , completing a life-size clay figure, then bought y
[016] lpless and unable to move. The road leading south _____ the river was shaded with old trees, and in the moon
[017] ty, the very smell of the river on his right purling _____ to the bay past fish weirs and rocks, and ahead the
[018] south, the fishers and mooncursers- smugglers- lived _____ the churning Great South Bay and the narrow barrier
[019] hich nested farms, cattle barns, and berry thickets. _____ Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white c
[020] e silent. "I do not care if your beliefs take you _____ a path of religion or a path of labor or a path of a
[021] rs younger than Ernest. We didn't expect him to come _____ ; thought for the longest he was a tumor". This
[022] after ice", Howard said, "and thought maybe you'd go _____ and keep us company". There was really no reason
[023] nda Kay had never ridden in a Cadillac. Driving _____ the caliche-topped road to town, Howard talked. Fina
[024] he tulips and the big pink peonies had been blooming _____ the drive, and he had walked up from the bus almost
[025] ing or only when crossing the street? Should I bring _____ a corsage or send one to her? Was it preferable to m
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[001] eliefs were still unsettled, he knew that he did not _____ in killing. Yet, he was here. He had come because he
[002] (how often had he had to play that part, who did not _____ a word of it), he raised his arm and declaimed: "Whe
[003] at university did you study"? he asks. He refuses to _____ that the bandit chief never attended a higher instit
[004] d you'll have a delightful operetta". He didn't _____ them. "Nonsense", he said. "This is the sort of stuf
[005] ad to follow the light. Unless God expected a man to _____ the Holy Scriptures, why had He given them to him?
[006] aged over the person of Christ. Those who refused to _____ that He was the eternal Son of God were termed Arian
[007] increase rather than be done away with. One had to _____ in final events or one was stranded in the abyss of
[008] onism. It had sounded good to Andrei, but he did not _____ it. In his heart he had no desire to go to Palestine
[009] I will never live to see Palestine because I did not _____ . By late afternoon the train inched into the mars
[010] e a massive cry of indignation". "Do you really _____ that, Jan"? "I have to
[011] that, Jan"? "I have to _____ it". Styka shook his head slowly. "I am only a si
[012] lost faith, Styka. I used to love this country and _____ that someday we'd win our battle for equality. But n
[013] id, feeling annoyed, "she was very pretty. You don't _____ that I'm going back to medical school and finish, do
[014] deeply about every patient on the ward and wanted to _____ that they might benefit from their treatment there.
[015] ly that any girl as sharp as Mary Jane Brennan would _____ it without proof. But I had the proof, all documente
[016] - I don't give a damn what you tell them- only don't _____ a word they say- they're out to make trouble for me
[017] opium by its odor. It was not very reasonable to _____ that Lucien had procured unprocurable opium and come
[018] himself. Mainly of what Conrad had tried to make him _____ . There was nothing coherent about his thinking. I
[019] said the fingerprint man. "Also, if you're going to _____ those prints, you'll have to look for a killer who's
[020] it, Andy. God knows how, but I got it. You'll never _____ the places I've been today. I practically had to sig
[021] a week. There was, of course, no special reason to _____ that the man or woman they sought had stayed only ov
[022] ving was much more dangerous than he had been led to _____ . Yet tension existed. The same taut-nerved relations
[023] that- well, 1105 is being redecorated". "I don't _____ it". Alec leaned on the desk, holding the clerk's ey
[024] have got hit by that truck if it wasn't for you. I _____ in returning favors. I'll do anything for somebody I
[025] a bath. He says the neighbors complain, but I don't _____ it. Why don't they tell me themselves if it bothers
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[001] ponsible for the rapid spoilage of foods. Of special _____ is the growth of bacteria such as Clostridium botuli
[002] ut seeming to, Virginia openly, her eyes filled with _____ . Scotty was neutral. He did not resent their supervi
[003] n. He did not care. He felt her irritability did not _____ him, yet he knew he would not care even if it did. H
[004] , politics, economics, and social issues that are no _____ of the Church"? And John's reply was always the same
[005] always the same: "Anything that affects souls is the _____ of the Church! We will have righteousness"! Tears
[006] red, for his hand to reach out, for his face to show _____ or stoicism. It was nothing to him if rain fell and
[007] kick to the groin, the deadly hand was his exclusive _____ . The kick came, sudden and vicious but short. Mic
[008] of New Orleans. Hank was beginning to feel sharp _____ for Mr. Black. If Mrs. Black was who he thought she
[009] . He hadn't. And now she was feeling sick, both from _____ about Stanley and hunger. Why hadn't he called?
[010] if she mentioned it, and say that it was none of her _____ . "Pat, get out of that creek! You too, Sean! Elen
[011] Don't get yourself killed for something that doesn't _____ you". He strode past the now frightened man, en
[012] re mostly to himself. "Don't". There was a gentle _____ in Benson's voice. Ramey looked down and saw the whi
[013] t there looking at him, without an expression except _____ for him. "We're all God's creatures, aren't we"?
[014] r scarf". Never, "Quit that, you sor'l devil"! Never _____ for his wife's nerves, or the danger that the curled
[015] a rule was very high. At present the doctor's main _____ was in seeing to it that Japanese salvage firms were
[016] blazer. She seemed overly tall, her brow knitted in _____ . "Well, at least you won't have to do that", she was
[017] oing to do. Whether or not Wally lost his job was no _____ of mine. I drove home, found Chris still asleep. I s
[018] t", Chris said, his nice lean face grave with honest _____ . But I couldn't help thinking that Nadine and Wally
[019] and faced the huge tractor wheel, without fright or _____ . I let the engine idle then, and I got down and w
[020] toward deeper involvement by familial loyalty and a _____ for his grandchildren. Gerry began to aid Freddy wit
[021] changed in 300 years, and sociology was born out of a _____ with this rapidly changing character of the modern, i
[022] itted by adults; for the same reason, parents express _____ about who their children's friends are. In a rapidly
[023] asis of their place in the organizational hierarchy. _____ for productivity, more than
[024] for productivity, more than _____ for democratic fairness, is responsible for the tren
[025] o push for physical comfort for each worker. 7 But _____ for productivity may eventually do something for fai