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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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[001] cal newspapers after my little adventure in Marshall _____ + Co. She knew that I lived at a good address on the
[002] f the road there were two farm hands, well back in a _____ , leaning against a plow. They, too, stared at him.
[003] ple of hundred feet in front of him, beside a fenced _____ . Then there was another sound. A second car was comi
[004] rse has variety, something for everybody- a fact you _____ workers often miss". "You mean this punk can brus
[005] the lapel gauge on his coverall. The strong negative _____ his suit set up would help to repel bacteria and ins
[006] nner sneaked out of the pilots' barracks, out to the _____ and over to Helva's slim metal hull. "Hello, an
[007] he truth was she was lonely, sitting on the darkened _____ . Always she had had the company of other shells and
[008] saw the old-style chemical rockets lift up from the _____ beyond B'dikkat's cabin, they did not make plans to
[009] up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, _____ boss for the Highlands Oil + Gas Company. Tom h
[010] o do so would make his job well-nigh impossible. Oil- _____ workers were a rough-tough lot. How could he exert a
[011] d Lord, and he laid a firmly restraining hand on the _____ boss's arm. It was strictly the deputy's game,
[012] he mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and _____ glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to
[013] and came whipping over the sideboards. We were in a _____ , in a tight, screeching turn. Prairie dogs were popp
[014] the hill away from the Dixie Highway, through a corn _____ and a patch of woods to the school. Jack knew of
[015] ert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the _____ where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of
[016] n, leaving the village street and crossing the first _____ , Folly dancing ahead of her. At the edge of the
[017] Folly dancing ahead of her. At the edge of the _____ , the wild rolling land took over, dotted with fat ro
[018] that he had held precious his naval career. Another _____ had given him fame enough to satisfy any egotist. It
[019] the world", she thought. She looked out at the corn _____ , the great green deep acres of it rolled out like th
[020] reen deep acres of it rolled out like the sea in the _____ beyond the whitewashed fence bordering the grounds.
[021] t onto a curve and smacked the ball into left center _____ . @ Eddie Lee, Riverside's redheaded playing manager,
[022] past him. Phil Rossoff cut over to center from left _____ to get the relay. Eddie caught up with the ball near
[023] into the dugout. @ Phil Rossoff, coming in from left _____ , stopped at the water fountain for a drink. Mike Dee
[024] rink. Mike Deegan was standing beside it, facing the _____ . He was eyeing the Anniston catcher warming up his p
[025] he Anniston players and their manager ran out on the _____ . They poured water over their catcher's face. He did
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[001] isastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass through a _____ house, visible all the way up through wire gratings
[002] e would cook one if he brought it home. "Cook a _____ antelope"? she exclaimed. "Why, I couldn't even cook
[003] ven saw any". "Oh, you could. I want to roast the _____ thing, and have it for the boys". Linda Kay tol
[004] issings, enthusiastic forays into the festive night. _____ platoons were taking up new positions on the steps,
[005] , Mary Jane"? "You are young, intelligent, have a _____ lifetime before you to make something worth while of
[006] when I get out of Hanover, I'd like to tell you the _____ story. I can say this: I'm dead serious about going
[007] ce and danger of getting in touch with practically a _____ new bunch of boys- Why did everything have to happen
[008] othing could make it necessary to proclaim it to the _____ world". Obligingly Gibby lowered his voice. "Feli
[009] uded the ladies we would have to that extent let the _____ world know at least that much of where we stood. The
[010] r on it, all these shades were tightly drawn and the _____ studio was as dark as night. He quickly fixed that,
[011] n we came in, he unerringly fixed things so that the _____ place was bathed in the maximum of light without at
[012] lden noticed almost absently how she chewed, how the _____ side of her cheek moved, a slab of fat that extended
[013] would offer no theory to account for her murder. The _____ thing, his manner conveyed, was so far outside the n
[014] un thought. Fight with Sam Schaeffer, fight with the _____ damned Bureau. But leave me alone. Because I'm looki
[015] ight. Mission Street at this hour was populated by a _____ community that Gun could not have seen on his tour o
[016] t-were the spirit, the demoniac, evil spirit of this _____ affair. You see, besides being custodian of antiq
[017] r, namely the Beech Pasture. And I remember that the _____ of the privileges, not counting the Beech Pasture, w
[018] urned to his apartment and hit the sack, putting the _____ incident out of mind before he fell asleep. The
[019] how the principle could ever be codified. Almost the _____ experience of mankind pointed toward suspicion, not
[020] fort to control her anger. "You could burn down this _____ mountainside with a fire that size. It wouldn't matt
[021] aulage tunnel. Then the vein had petered out and the _____ project had been abandoned. "The road's washed
[022] elegraph wires in half a dozen places, carrying away _____ sections to make repairs more difficult. It was over
[023] conferences. For everyone involved knew that the _____ valley was a powder keg, and Mitchell Barton the fus
[024] e bravest, and absolutely the prettiest girl in this _____ wonderful world. He released her reluctantly for her
[025] he traditions they had followed since childhood, the _____ group settled down to relish their food. Even Sally,
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[001] sessed you to tell me a clotheshorse would be a good _____ "? Winston folded the tissue paper carefully. "He'
[002] ging me back to life. For many nights afterward, the _____ of her having been so close to me in that imagined b
[003] been completely alone with a girl I loved. I had no _____ of what subjects one discussed when alone with a gir
[004] Jessica informed me that her father did not like the _____ of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for
[005] nto town. Then he realized the utter futility of the _____ . They were staring at him in the same blank and mena
[006] her husband's knowledge"? "I haven't the faintest _____ . I think her husband strongly suspects so, and that'
[007] r a good-looking out-of-town bride". "That's an _____ . Mrs. Calhoun has been society editor here for twent
[008] to join it. That, incidentally, might give you some _____ of what Felix was like. After all, he hadn't happene
[009] Well, it hadn't been what it seemed, he'd had no _____ the girl was in there. He hadn't touched her. And
[010] ort something. Holden stepped on the gas. A new _____ drifted in from nowhere. He could go to the police.
[011] meant nothing to him. This was senseless- he had no _____ what to look for. He peered in the boxes themselves;
[012] Killpath's nasal voice pronounced. "Do you have any _____ who might have been in charge at the time"? "Se
[013] though he spoke with a smile, Casey somehow got the _____ that he was not particularly amused. "Stop by any ti
[014] s empty. Even before his mind had rounded out the _____ , he thrust one hand into his trousers pocket and pul
[015] He considered opening a can of beer but vetoed that _____ too. Finally he went into the bedroom and sat down t
[016] way I always do in the morning". "Have you any _____ what this Tim and Mrs. Buck were arguing about"?
[017] or the job". I asked a silly question: "You've no _____ where your husband could be, now"? She shook he
[018] Let's take it outside. It's plenty warm". "A fine _____ ", Mike agreed. "Warm enough to swim- real Indian
[019] perennial gadfly", said the whining voice. "I had no _____ that you, too, would be on this glorious voyage. But
[020] urs along the ditches in his meadows. He had no _____ how much time Budd would give him. In any case, he h
[021] You killed him, didn't you"? "It was Brenner's _____ ", Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose. "He found out a
[022] his back. He fought the panic of vertigo. He had no _____ which was up and which was down. He held the control
[023] rip that had frightened her. She had hated the whole _____ before they started. Actually, she had hated him bef
[024] d been just a romantic dream of his, the same as the _____ of finishing Oxford after the war. But "after the wa
[025] er. "You are a big muscle-bound ape and you got this _____ about setting a record. And you also got this little
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[001] inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would _____ through a whole house, visible all the way up throug
[002] as a narrow road, barely wide enough for two cars to _____ . He could not leave the road because of the water-fi
[003] g, the suite saw a steady procession of Paxton aides _____ in and out, each with his own special problem. Thorn
[004] f sippers out there tonight. I guess nobody wants to _____ out and miss anything". Thornburg added in a lower v
[005] lenty. The State cops would check from time to time; _____ word when there was word to
[006] word when there was word to _____ . Weigand tossed this news into the centrifuge. Sort
[007] ndow". "Don't forget, there was the hope it would _____ for a natural death", Pauling reminded him. "We
[008] row shoulders and that brush haircut ... hell, you'd _____ for a juvenile delinquent of the hotrod set. In my d
[009] ould be gone. Fuming, helpless, he watched them _____ him. The sail, ragged though it was, still had enoug
[010] been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to _____ between the fan vents and myself. I knew that three
[011] tight against the ceiling and led them back to their _____ to home. Mercifully, it was still open. Like a man m
[012] high-pitched voice. "Greg to Sweeney Blue. One _____ only. No turns. You'll bust your ass in this canyon.
[013] How far I knew will shortly become apparent. Let me _____ over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same
[014] "I know what we can do", I said. "Tell him I made a _____ at you". She raised a protesting hand with a star
[015] be romance and flirtation. If you tell him I made a _____ at you he might think you misunderstood something I
[016] said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a _____ , say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you
[017] et a good, loyal husband- smack!- and you fall for a _____ by his own nephew! You should- smack!- be ashamed of
[018] All men went away from here. Those who stayed had to _____ tests. Few passed". She cackled with mirth, showing
[019] belly. The Old Man near the corner let the shadow _____ over him, sensing something portentous in it. He kne
[020] people were lying down in the roads so we could not _____ . They said that we must not fight but wait for the M
[021] if in her extreme disdain and indifference she would _____ by all the outraged looks of those whom she might ap
[022] s that the next time you're attracted by the exotic, _____ it up- it's nothing but a headache. As you can count
[023] s to the college kitchens. It had met and could not _____ another truck, coming the other way, which was taki
[024] m that chimpanzees have culture. Whether chimpanzees _____ these behaviors on through teaching is seen to be key
[025] trength to be decisive. Don't let a great opportunity _____ you by because of fear or indecision. By presenting
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[001] house has passed under this unaccountable, official _____ , could you go on forgetting that you still had that
[002] tempt would be scheduled for somewhere beyond Hoag's _____ . He could not break in on an armed man. He would hav
[003] ck and forth across the room, his imagination out of _____ . He tried to tell himself that maybe Burton had sobe
[004] took him a while to make the mental readjustment and _____ the disturbance inside his head. When he heard Calen
[005] feel uneasy. When he finally got the coughing under _____ , he realized that Pete (all he gave was his first na
[006] nderous style. On impulse, he flipped up the heat _____ on his coverall and slid back the hatch of the bubbl
[007] were lost when the final connection was made to the _____ panels of ship or industrial combine. Shell people
[008] later use for minute repairs to various parts of her _____ panel. Her subject was large- a copy of the Last Sup
[009] was essentially more instrumental than vocal. Breath _____ and the proper enunciation of vowel sounds within th
[010] a matter of the correct reproduction and diaphragmic _____ required by the music attempted. If the authoriti
[011] ire", she said, speaking slowly, making an effort to _____ her anger. "You could burn down this whole mountains
[012] d into a tantrum- teased and provoked until she lost _____ of herself, and thus lost still another battle in th
[013] ul. The pilots' heads looked ridiculously small. The _____ tower gave him immediate take-off permission, and th
[014] ice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and _____ . Meredith began falling in love. Soup: "Only this
[015] ple ran through the muscles of his jaws, but he kept _____ upon his voice. "There must be some water under t
[016] ting harsher in spite of himself, as he struggled to _____ his growing anger. "It was a king cobra, the largest
[017] me, anyway. Not right away". He had his voice under _____ again: no one became aware that he was terrified by
[018] that I felt sick. I tell you, it took every ounce of _____ I had to be able to speak. "Now, Miss- or is it Mrs.
[019] s as the very image of his childishness, his lack of _____ , his general male looseness, while she remained cool
[020] r group allows young people to escape from the direct _____ of adults. With this newfound independence, members o
[021] or reward of material goods as a device to modify or _____ a child's behavior. A mother may reward her child w
[022] a product or service Gatekeepers Family member(s) who _____ the flow of information about a product or service in
[023] ch harder to define variables as privacy, ability to _____ access to others, and the opportunity for personaliz
[024] particular regions in terms of production, quality _____ and identity. One thinks here of Florida orange jui
[025] first time officially, organic agriculture and the _____ procedures required for food to be sold as organic.
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[001] laughed it was all he was doing. And she was made to _____ in love with him again there in the rutted dirt driv
[002] rt of the summer gave promise of continuing into the _____ : Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere
[003] wake in shame, tossing with irresolution, longing to _____ into a deep sleep. The weeks went by, and the lon
[004] , he managed to hunch and draw in, to take the final _____ on his back and shoulders rather than his head. He w
[005] warned, the land on both sides of these deeps would _____ into the ocean and no more La Jolla or Redondo Beach
[006] twenty pounds. I wish you could have seen the crests _____ on these two sparring coxcombs when I told them that
[007] . He had apparently been alone. Nobody witnessed the _____ - just the sickening impact when his body smashed on
[008] ered; "floor level's about three feet down, so don't _____ ". I went through and down, into pitch darkness. He s
[009] red circle to the chest of his pony. I saw the pony _____ like a stone and the young warrior flew over its hea
[010] ng a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it _____ again and dangle from her wrist. "I saw your fire
[011] She came down against him, and he tried to break her _____ . He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on on
[012] ss stared at him without answering and let his hands _____ to his sides. He had found Curt's weakness, or what
[013] folks aim to give you our turn when it comes up and _____ in behind you and Rod's outfit". "Ain't no sens
[014] itch! You get a good, loyal husband- smack!- and you _____ for a pass by his own nephew! You should- smack!- be
[015] jacket and white flannels. He went to Key West every _____ and winter and was the only man in town who did not
[016] the girls", Charles grinned. "Maybe some of 'em will _____ down and we'll see up their dress". "Maybe", Ja
[017] taking work away from men who need it". ## @ "BY _____ they'll be back in school", I'd say, trying to sound
[018] ents for the summer and wait until you return in the _____ so we can work out together the best ...". I real
[019] that. Somebody with no vices. You know". "And you _____ for a lumber jockey". "Who drinks far too much".
[020] raddling home plate. All Deegan had to do was slide, _____ away, but instead, he rammed into the catcher.
[021] coolness of that body. I lowered him so he would not _____ and his body slid out onto the cool, newly-plowed ea
[022] ing my little dream, there's you. You mustn't take a _____ , or publicly back away. I hate that. You're- you're
[023] ion", he said, "since the onus later, if any, should _____ on me- I don't relish recriminations spread broadcas
[024] which really counted. Then, at last, his day would _____ into an ordered pattern and he would be free to read
[025] nto politics", Moreland observed. "What a nasty _____ was there"! I said. Moreland went over to stare a
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[001] les of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose _____ , after-school class I was enrolled. The letters took
[002] ith you, my friend, I sympathize, and I'll make it a _____ point- a
[003] point- a _____ favor- get in touch, and get some stuff just for you
[004] nants had told us of him did make him sound a little _____ . We were not, however, prepared for anything like th
[005] of Paxton aides pass in and out, each with his own _____ problem. Thornburg arrived with the writers. They ha
[006] ation list was being checked out name by name, and a _____ detail was already at work in the parking lot scruti
[007] e Dumont for almost a week. There was, of course, no _____ reason to believe that the man or woman they sought
[008] ed, as was most likely, check out other guests, with _____ - but not exclusive- attention to those with rooms on
[009] Jiffy-Couch-a-Bed, mauve velour, $79.89 nothing-down _____ ! "She's honest as the day", Mr. Phillips said, an
[010] ere were three other such children in the big city's _____ nursery. Soon they all were removed to Central Labor
[011] ed all the way into the bedroom. There I got my Colt _____ and shoulder harness, slipped my coat on, and went b
[012] as acknowledgement that here, indeed, was something _____ . Mary Jane had made very little effort. Above a dark
[013] Now she must be thinking of a boy-name, something _____ . Just wait till she saw the Mare's foal. Handsomest
[014] stomers chips or checks or premium points. He read a _____ announcement whereby Hurrays would feature a
[015] announcement whereby Hurrays would feature a _____ floorshow at three a.m. starring Adele (The Body) Br
[016] ad encouragingly, asked Sam about Canada, having a _____ interest. Carla translated. The old woman had a neph
[017] , lumpy rock trailing seaweed whiskers. His rock was _____ because no one on the beach could see him here. Here
[018] shes and the stock of groceries Nadine had bought on _____ . At least we'll eat, I thought grimly as I put all t
[019] and he'd meet us there. There wasn't anything of _____ interest that morning, no one sicker than they shoul
[020] opened to her left. The Spanish Steps. Something _____ was going on here just now- the annual display of az
[021] t of society and societal change. As you read it, pay _____ attention to the target vocabulary words in bold.
[022] ce our social development today. As you read it, pay _____ attention to the target vocabulary words in bold. S
[023] however, there are four familiar influences that have _____ significance in the socialization process. They are t
[024] family and how that is changing. As you read it, pay _____ attention to the target vocabulary words in bold. F
[025] premodern and modern societies, it has always been a _____ focus in the social sciences. Kinship vs. Family 2
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[001] een and what a raw deal he had got. It made her feel _____ about Howard. She was going to tell Bobby Joe a
[002] seem woeful, inadequate, unwanted. But that year was _____ , for just as the city, in the form of my street clot
[003] ew sound, a sound as piercing as the Rebel yell, yet _____ . It was the sound of a siren. Now he saw that the ap
[004] n ladies' manners and all like that, and get to know _____ people than up to now, not just the ones like her he
[005] ounding names, the ones went to the same church and- _____ place,
[006] place, _____ job,
[007] job, _____ people, she'd be all
[008] people, she'd be all _____ too. Prettier, she'd do her hair another way; smarte
[009] er, she'd do her hair another way; smarter, and wear _____ kinds of clothes- she'd be Katharine Ross, just what
[010] t of the future. Some of those vaguely-imagined new, _____ people. Oh, Katharine's awfully nice, and pretty too
[011] ture-images passing through his mind: the same ones, _____ ones, in no apparent sequence, in no logical success
[012] onger there. There was no evidence that anything was _____ than it had been. Except that Kitti wasn't there.
[013] On Blanche Jacobs, Kitti Gilborn's death had a quite _____ effect. For Blanche, Kitti's death was a source of g
[014] said before every performance but tonight it sounded _____ , as if he really needed it. They were right. The
[015] sing number tonight, I'd like to sing something of a _____ nature for you. Ray, if you please- the 'Cradle Song
[016] busboy. "Begin to look like him now, would you say? _____ about the mouth, huh? More like this, maybe"? M
[017] f Cape Ann, they are not just like others. There's a _____ hall-mark on them. There were no witch burnings here
[018] peated over and over at irregular intervals and with _____ inflections, and then the word "Now"! and a blaring
[019] d the System yet. The Martians have their own setup, _____ from ours, and as long as they need him, we can't to
[020] indicate the past or future, Siddo used an entirely _____ word. Thus, the masculine animate infinitive dabhu
[021] n the future, mai'teipa. The same use of an entirely _____ word applied for all the other tenses. Plus the fact
[022] ke value- judgments on them, and give them new and _____ powers in his mind to govern his motives. This is no
[023] st underneath. It was obvious that he wished himself _____ from the sort of person he thought he was. But it wa
[024] y-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly _____ type of legendary figure. Such ranchers as Coble and
[025] It's all I ask, Stevens". Separating, they took _____ sides of the main drag and systematically combed the
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[001] ouded. The equipment was solid and heavy and in good _____ . Everything was orderly and it seemed to be arranged
[002] than did his body. She meant him well, but was in no _____ for articulate speech. The half-man lay on the gr
[003] oment, wondering what could have reduced her to this _____ . He had seen a few nester wagons go through the coun
[004] ay the same night. How he returned in such a ghastly _____ , or why, I cannot say. Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't eve
[005] is lack of understanding and sympathy in her present _____ , her disgusting swollen stomach. Human birth wa
[006] led water. In France, other criteria must be met. One _____ is that the mineral content of the water must be low
[007] problem to examining a certain equivalent congruence _____ . For , I don't know about the existence of equivalen
[008] x becomes inflamed, swollen and filled with pus. This _____ called acute appendicitis affects between 1 in 500 to
[009] n a healthy pregnancy was looked upon as a delicate _____ requiring constant bed rest or some measure of confi
[010] r, and particularly opera, is so much about the human _____ and helps us to understand ourselves more. We can p
[011] se before me was so tidy, everything was in perfect _____ when I moved in. ' Also in the studio are Ebner's pai
[012] terday, Mr. Louima was resting after surgery when his _____ worsened on Wednesday. Statisticians estimate that in
[013] ensively in assessing crop potential, disease, plant _____ , soil types, water content, insect infestations, and
[014] rrangement is now in jeopardy. because of the Soviet _____ that the US cease production of its binary weapons. A
[015] ns High Commissioner for Refugees in Ethiopia, their _____ rapidly deteriorated. They were not properly cared f
[016] e former world middleweight champion, is in a stable _____ in hospital after collapsing at his home on Monday. G
[017] not long before they had traversed in such a terrible _____ . They observed, with emotion, all that part to the no
[018] aughts, had become scarcely habitable. The engineer's _____ would, therefore, have been bad enough, if his compa
[019] sary for making tools, and they were not even in the _____ of nature, who, "having time, husbands her strength."
[020] hen it should be subjected to heat--an indispensable _____ to the success of the operation. On the morning of th
[021] rding took it, examined it, found that it was in good _____ , and looking the sailor full in the face-- "Pencroft,"
[022] verything, my friends, everything can serve us in the _____ in which we are. Do not forget that, I beg of you."
[023] n by detaching the two barrels, which, being in good _____ , would of course be of use. Then the locks were forc
[024] e the soil was absolutely unhealthy, and the sanitary _____ of the inhabitants has been gradually ameliorated. N
[025] nchor. The case, except for the fracture, was in good _____ , only the lower portion being torn. It was a fortune