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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 )
college
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religion
spirit
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[001] and, appeared perfectly confident and Ulyate decided _____ that was the answer. From the lioness' point of v
[002] games near home, in the town park or a pasture, with _____ two or three trips to the city each season to see th
[003] ublic. In his minor way Charles Arthur Shires was _____ more typical of his era than Ruth was, for he was bu
[004] ning are relatively unimportant. This tendency is, _____ , most clearly revealed in the literature on religiou
[005] ate. The eyes of the figure of the Nile are covered, _____ either to symbolize the mystery of her source or to
[006] d theatrical and often appears in movies about Rome. _____ a street musician will pass to add that extra touch.
[007] story. And so do the prostitutes. (And this is not, _____ , the place to discuss Harlem's very complex attitude
[008] olor, remind him of children he has known and loved, _____ even of his own children. He knows that he certainly
[009] Negroes represent nothing to him personally, except, _____ , the dangers of carnality. He never sees Negroes.
[010] ople directly and objectively a part of this policy. _____ this would be sufficient to justify an economic boyc
[011] t this is only another form of struggle for victory ( _____ to be chosen above all others). One of the sit-in le
[012] state" came into existence. For lawyers, reflecting _____ their parochial preferences, there has been a specia
[013] fragmentation. A third, one of at least equal and _____ even greater importance, is now being traversed: Ame
[014] of the United States as an independent entity, it is _____ natural for Americans to think of the nation as repr
[015] implicit in each movement was the death of millions, _____ hundreds of millions,
[016] hundreds of millions, _____ you and me- and the experts. These men are not ca
[017] self-conscious challenge, but I suspect that it can. _____ this is what gives the aborigine his odd air of dign
[018] sunlight. But even for them it remains a museum, or _____ it would be more accurate to say a tomb, a tomb in w
[019] hese things are important to almost all Persians and _____ most important to the most ordinary. The men crying
[020] er, hardly any books, the twins run free. It is _____ difficult to conceive, but imagine that tonight on L
[021] ll gather to sing Marlowe, Herrick, Shakespeare, and _____ some lyrics of their own. That, at any rate, is what
[022] e switch to urbanism is somehow dreaded or unwanted? _____ present writers hypnotically cling to the older orde
[023] sion, which sped the process of gaining equality (or _____ hindered it; only historical evolution will determin
[024] rest after the overexploitation of the past century. _____ these writers have been too deeply moved by this rom
[025] this regard. Faulkner culminates the Southern legend _____ more masterfully than it has ever been, or could eve
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college
grow
moment
music
perhaps
receive
religion
spirit
sure
train
[001] s. It has a beautiful edifice. Its preaching and its _____ give refreshment of spirit to men and women living u
[002] h a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and _____ ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance t
[003] aesthetic sensibilities. Water, air, fruit, poetry, _____ , the human form- these things are important to Persi
[004] hem according to one of the modes into which Persian _____ is divided. Each mode is believed to have a specific
[005] lchred ...". These songs (practically all Persian _____ , for that matter) are limited to a range of two octa
[006] icantly recurred in his life several times. The _____ director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Willi
[007] afternoon sunshine, he asked if the soft background _____ could be turned off. Unfortunately, it was Muzak, wh
[008] Yes: though not professional musicians, they were a _____ -loving family. In his native Cologne, where his moth
[009] dedicated himself to the advancement of contemporary _____ by vowing to do a Scho^nberg work every year. In Fra
[010] and Mahler". Since he introduces so much modern _____ , I could not resist asking how he felt about it.
[011] "There was always and at all times a contemporary _____ and it expresses the era in which it was created. Bu
[012] in with a twinkle in his eyes, "all you know is your _____ . But after all, you never learned anything else"!
[013] in literature. But his prime interest, apart from _____ , he insisted seriously, was his family- his wife, da
[014] an tomb. "Both children are musical and my wife is a _____ lover of unfailing instinct and judgment". "IS the a
[015] mselves to some creative pursuit- writing, painting, _____ . They are non-conformists on principle. When they ex
[016] s which form the sources of any human life. The _____ which La^utner has composed for this episode is for
[017] problem of suffering"); the miraculous way in which _____ , revelation and death are associated in a single ins
[018] n his "Boston Hymn", delivered in 1863 in the Boston _____ Hall amidst thundering applause: "Pay ransom to the
[019] me Sandburg was a walking thesaurus of American folk _____ . After he had finished the first two volumes of h
[020] d do little else but get him started on the study of _____ - though she waited until he was ten- beginning with
[021] of aptitude for both instruments. Still, he did like _____ making and even sang in the chapel choir of the Wood
[022] n, and Arthur Schwartz. Mercer has also written both _____ and lyrics for several songs. He may be the only son
[023] what claims to be a Negroid idiom in both words and _____ , these six songs by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler eas
[024] ty which invariably characterizes genuine Negro folk- _____ and are by no means to be confused with the average
[025] deny it, in far closer sympathy with the art of the _____ -hall and picture-palace than with Chaucer and Cimabu
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moment
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religion
spirit
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[001] iendly contact" form the iron cage of denominational _____ . Its contents are another matter, for they reveal th
[002] it go. My brother and mother got no value from their _____ when they died. At the moment of crisis it had no mo
[003] do the plays deal with the same facets of experience _____ must also deal with? "Yes, for they deal with dis
[004] the numinous, but not anything connected with formal _____ . What they are after is the beatific vision. And Zen
[005] e principle of the universe, the secret of primitive _____ , the life of myth. Everything in the final analysis
[006] ment in this country and the development of a social _____ , which he called the American Democratic Faith. Thos
[007] quote him on the relationship that he found between _____ and politics in this country and what happened to it
[008] was adapted to democracy. And with Progressivism the _____ of Humanity was replacing what Gabriel called Christ
[009] rn Independence and the general secular drift to the _____ of Humanity, however, prepared the way for a recepti
[010] t had taken liberals in this country into the social _____ of democracy, into a worship of man, led logically t
[011] r a thought in her mind she might devote her life to _____ , it was now dispelled. "I felt that I must devote my
[012] determine whether a claim put forward in the name of _____ is to be accepted by the larger community as appropr
[013] e accepted by the larger community as appropriate to _____ . Since the recognition of Israel as a nation state,
[014] , for the theologians of course, to the influence of _____ . Still, it would be surprising if what one reads
[015] ed in conjunction with the history of philosophy, of _____ , and of the sciences. When these fields are surveyed
[016] tish politics against a vivid background of Scottish _____ , customs, and traditions. I stood on a table, sur
[017] "clothier" in London, but was greatly concerned with _____ . Gorton left England, he said, "to enjoy libertie
[018] belief in the moral law has the advantage of making _____ natural, even as physical law is natural. Neither th
[019] ordinary common sense, applied to a neglected field. _____ thus becomes integrated with life. This truth t
[020] n's rational side, to teach virtue, and to encourage _____ . While Plato finally allows a few acceptable hymn
[021] major proportion of these young men and women see _____ as a means of personal adjustment, an anchor for fam
[022] ide the acceptance of traditional forms of organized _____ (church, ordained personnel, ritual, dogma). Still a
[023] n consists of those who seek, in what they regard as _____ , intellectual clarity, rational belief, and ethical
[024] ions the extent and nature of the alleged revival of _____ and the alleged increase in conformity, and thinks
[025] ing, "jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest _____ , and pleasing in the eyes of all", and an archbishop
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moment
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[001] al care for the sick and troubled. It helps children _____ up with at least a nodding acquaintance with the Bib
[002] for Japanese women, but this University continues to _____ and to send its students out into the community. Act
[003] tead of continuing as an "art of reduction", it must _____ , must make a place for the contributions of the Raph
[004] nt. Shocked at the response to our proclamations, we _____ more defensive, and worse, we lose our sense of humo
[005] so the relationship between the two men continued to _____ colder by the day, and by December of 1834 it was ic
[006] wo several thousand might be in service. It can then _____ steadily as it proves itself and as the need for it
[007] d; and it is to be noted also that confidence should _____ from remembering that great men often appeared in th
[008] below 1960, but above 1959. #MILITARY ELECTRONICS TO _____ # 1960 witnessed another substantial increase in our
[009] understand how he concluded that most snakes do not _____ appreciably after attaining maturity; he was working
[010] population can thereby replenish itself and actually _____ larger. #MASTER PROCESSES# Of particular utility i
[011] during the Sixties our national economy is likely to _____ at as fast a rate as in the Fifties and, in the proc
[012] ecture in Greece; objects in gold, ivory, and bronze _____ more numerous. Since writing was practiced in the Ae
[013] plies that he has no notion. The jokes and arguments _____ louder until the police return; then the people stri
[014] few years, foamed plastics materials have managed to _____ into an integral, and important, phase of the plasti
[015] erty and ambition. Boxell did not have the chance to _____ up graciously. He had to acquire everything he was g
[016] enliness that hair grows on my face? Surely it would _____ there whether I washed myself or not. A hundred year
[017] s have changed, and I must pretend that hair doesn't _____ on my face. That's the fashion. And fashion is the
[018] tians. Despite their efforts, the problems seemed to _____ graver all the time. Quickening his steps, John en
[019] ild too much a part of her environment, too eager to _____ and learn and experience. Once, they were at Eastham
[020] g Parkersburg"? she asked him, seeing Juanita's eyes _____ bleak. "As you know, General McClellan has been o
[021] landscape as the beech and horse-chestnut trees that _____ on the ridge. I can see it from this window where I
[022] hemisphere- it is spring; plants are being taught to _____ ". "'Taught to
[023] ". "'Taught to _____ '"? He hesitated. "Larry teaches plants to
[024] '"? He hesitated. "Larry teaches plants to _____ . I have helped him. But my people- Martians, I mean;
[025] know'"- "I know. It is for growing closer. Now we _____ closer". "Well ... I've been ready a long time- g
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grow
moment
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perhaps
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religion
spirit
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train
[001] n power as against goin' by rail. Shippin' cattle by _____ was called a "stock run". A general classification g
[002] he sensational and frightening enjoyed popularity: a _____ rushes straight at the audience, or a great wave thr
[003] ion for their existence. The "moving" picture of the _____ or the wave coming at the audience is, to be sure, m
[004] story that has since ensued. The movie was The Great _____ Robbery and its effects on the young industry and ar
[005] he standard running time of movies by ten. The Great _____ Robbery is a one-reel film. One reel- from eight to
[006] ers and ties up the telegraph operator, holds up the _____ and escapes. A posse is formed and pursues the robbe
[007] is what Porter did. As the robbers leave the looted _____ , the film suddenly cuts back to the station, where t
[008] a standard film device probably dates from The Great _____ Robbery, and there is a reason for the continued pop
[009] OTO# After a day at Nikko, Mrs. Kodama put me on the _____ for Kyoto. My instructions were that Mr. Nishimo wou
[010] SAKA, AND HIROSHIMA# Mr. Nishima went with me on the _____ to Nara. We passed his house and school on the way.
[011] n it, too. Here Mr. Yoneda met us after a three-hour _____ trip from the town where he teaches. Even though we
[012] In the evening both of the men went with me on the _____ 30 miles to Osaka to put me on the
[013] 30 miles to Osaka to put me on the _____ for Hiroshima. Again the plan was for me to go alone
[014] me. At Osaka, Mr. Yoneda had to leave us to get the _____ to his home, but Mr. Nishima and I had an hour and a
[015] but Mr. Nishima and I had an hour and a half before _____ time to see Osaka at night. It is the second largest
[016] y of natural reflection of artificial light. My _____ arrived in Hiroshima at the awful hour of 4:45 a.m.
[017] arrive and pilot me around. But there he was at the _____ with an Oregon State pennant in his hand. I kno
[018] s forming a spray on the right side. There is a long _____ flowing from the shoulders. Mrs. Coolidge gave Ma
[019] f the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long _____ before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her gue
[020] n, to greet her guests. Mama stooped down to fix the _____ , but there was no
[021] , but there was no _____ there! She reached and reached around the dress, but
[022] the whole thing fall to the floor. Mama swirled the _____ in place, and not a step was lost. The Coolidge
[023] mind, thank you", he said. "I must hurry to catch my _____ ". Another editor pointed despairingly at a bundle
[024] en to the colors; it was another to house, feed, and _____ them. The existing Army posts were wholly inadequate
[025] . He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the _____ to New York his purse and all his money had been sto
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[001] country on its march north that it wasn't stopped to _____ demand for "wohaw". "Tailin'" was the throwin'
[002] lear strike- the "go code". In an emergency he would _____ available intelligence on the "gold-phone circuit".
[003] because he is paid to do so (frequently he does not _____ a fee at all), but because he enjoys his work, becau
[004] the end of this period two pious Christians in Rome _____ the revelation which leads them to seek the next Pop
[005] think of men as the privileged who need but ask and _____ , and women as submissive and yielding, that our symp
[006] and a "refreshed" sense of significance a person may _____ from poetry, drama, and fiction. The notion of "insp
[007] d be made to their children whereby each child would _____ a bequest of $5000 cash. At his death Fred and Ralph
[008] d less than Tom, it was felt proper that Fred should _____ the few hundred dollars that remained. And that's ho
[009] ssary to install an outside antenna, particularly to _____ CONELRAD broadcasts. LIGHTING is an important co
[010] vil defense will gather its own information and will _____ broad information from State and Federal sources. It
[011] ther General Motors divisions. Competitors came to _____ higher percentage of General Motors business in late
[012] the hearing officer as well as at the trial. He did _____ a resume of it- the same that was furnished the appe
[013] be launched with its own identity and spirit and yet _____ the necessary assistance from those now responsible
[014] in every newly developing nation, the readiness to _____ such manpower, or to
[015] such manpower, or to _____ it from the United States will vary from country to
[016] gress should consider authorizing the Peace Corps to _____ contributions from American businesses, unions, civi
[017] The same standards for admission, for eligibility to _____ scholarships or grants-in-aid, and for scholastic pe
[018] hatch, they feed on the beebread, although they also _____ extra honey meals from their mother. She continues
[019] middle of the summer, many of the larvae apparently _____ such a good diet that it is "optimal", and it is the
[020] Each person votes for one of a pair of pictures to _____ a popular prize. Voting for one picture may be calle
[021] icted, though most would have fled, and Poland would _____ far more from Germany than the poor territories, inc
[022] n their programs, even though they must pay tuition, _____ no subsistence payments, and are not guaranteed a jo
[023] ore favorable vein, general business activity should _____ some stimulus from rising Federal spending, and the
[024] mall firms selling to defense programs. The firms to _____ the questionnaires were selected with this objective
[025] Prince Edward County? Nearly half the children still _____ no education. Must or should the Federal government
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[001] herself while attending school; whether to pursue a _____ education or a job after high school; and whether to
[002] fter high school; and whether to attend this or that _____ and to follow this or that course of study. Erikson
[003] in the fact that she bases her decisions about work, _____ , carreer, and studies on what others are doing, rath
[004] im, frequently with their savings for the children's _____ tuition. But come the next session of Congress,
[005] e. The next day I visited International Christian _____ which has developed since the war under the leadersh
[006] there; but there is a leavening of liberalism among _____ graduates throughout the South, especially among tho
[007] children". He was referring not only to the general _____ situation but more especially to the preparatory sch
[008] a different communication network than a factory, a _____ , or a rural village. The assumptions upon which t
[009] ut clarity is not enough. The writer took a class of _____ students to the state hospital for the mentally ill
[010] ? Studying The Merchant of Venice in high school and _____ has given many young people their notions about Jews
[011] lly. Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, a preacher and a _____ and university president in four Southern states, pu
[012] eform movement being promulgated by the Hebrew Union _____ in Cincinnati. Unlike his younger brother, Joe, he n
[013] s on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union _____ - until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he
[014] ses the guitar as a prop. He is no dextrous-fingered _____ boy but rather a dedicated, humble, and bashful apos
[015] r of the Southern Provinces, the Director of the War _____ - The Prince. ## Catherine's first war against the
[016] quently, Fred and Tom, the two who had been provided _____ educations, signed statements to the effect that eac
[017] upon the students more and more as they move through _____ . Even in such technical curricula as engineering, th
[018] their parents or their peers. And as they go through _____ , the students tend to bring their political position
[019] pperclassmen. In other words, as students go through _____ , those who are most successful academically tend to
[020] me more committed to a "Bill of Rights" orientation. _____ in gross- just the general experience- may have vary
[021] w substantial evidence from several major studies of _____ students that the experience of the
[022] students that the experience of the _____ years results in a certain, selective homogenization
[023] s and universities across the country. For instance, _____ -educated people consistently show up in study after
[024] nt that our sampling of the orientations of American _____ students in the years 1950 and 1952 may be represent
[025] ienable rights is retained. As they move through the _____ years our young men and women are "socialized" int
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[001] ice. Its preaching and its music give refreshment of _____ to men and women living under heavy strain. It provi
[002] o me, who says, with conviction and with truth, "The _____ of the South is the
[003] of the South is the _____ of America". He was born in the North and did his mi
[004] differences has often been attributed to the "folksy _____ " of Protestant religious life; in fact, a contrast i
[005] Roman Catholic parish. We have seen that the folksy _____ is confined to economic peers; consequently, the vul
[006] d they felt that if I could see the recovery and the _____ of the people, who hold no grudge, but who also regr
[007] of the nation, the rebels who would not surrender in _____ drew comfort from the sympathy they felt extended to
[008] eated testings over the decades. Lacking the pioneer _____ necessary to write of a new economy, these writers s
[009] ul, an epiphany of the suffering flesh unredeemed by _____ , untouched by any
[010] , untouched by any _____ other than abasement and humiliation. At the same
[011] onflict between light and dark, between "Life" and a _____ of criticism, negation, melancholy, but it goes cons
[012] tack takes the line that there's no more of the true _____ of "integration" in the North than in the South. The
[013] and narrow provincialism, indifferent to the heroic _____ of its former glory. Strindberg's remedy for this co
[014] ardboiled" detective story of the '20s and '30s, the _____ of the mad genius from Baker Street lives on. L
[015] om books, but could not thus capture the real Jewish _____ . Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakesp
[016] The double editorial on two aspects of "The U. S. _____ " was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction f
[017] cial, civilizational factors not rooted in the human _____ of the group, ultimately cease to exist. Civilizatio
[018] lf- tradition- falls out of existence when the human _____ itself becomes confused. Civilization is what man ha
[019] author, who seemed the embodiment of France's rising _____ of resistance to her conquerors, was much compliment
[020] ng. After casting about for a way of describing this _____ , we decided that it would be better to use Mr. Lyfor
[021] ble. They are determined to prove something. The new _____ , so well illustrated by Mr. Lyford's work, is wholly
[022] the bone. For innocence, of all the graces of the _____ , is I believe the one most to be prayed for. Althoug
[023] l submitted to Oxford. A month later, in The Publick _____ of the Whigs, he used Steele's defense of Molesworth
[024] In answer to The Crisis, Swift produced The Publick _____ of the Whigs, his most extensive and bitter attack o
[025] Tory press, especially the Examiner. In The Publick _____ of the Whigs, it may be noted, Swift himself contemp
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moment
music
perhaps
receive
religion
spirit
sure
train
[001] e train or the wave coming at the audience is, to be _____ , more intense than a still picture of the same subje
[002] arents. There seems to be no purpose in life that is _____ - no certain guiding principles to give stability. As
[003] any other champion of justice that he needs to make _____ not only that his cause is just but also that his co
[004] s of melioration, though "in a slight degree", to be _____ . There were more indications by the mid-twentieth
[005] help me to do so". Holmes is a public servant, to be _____ ; but the society which he serves bores him to tears.
[006] isfied with Eisenhower conservatism. Though, to be _____ , we gave Kennedy no very positive approval in the ma
[007] ts greatest security? We must not forget, to be _____ , that free discussion and debate have produced benef
[008] the plausible and the necessary conclusion. I am _____ that none of the effects of this story were consciou
[009] ical ardor. There is another kind of ardor, a quiet, _____ devotion to the fundamental decencies of human life,
[010] s"- where did they come from? Of one thing we can be _____ : they were not sketched out by the revolutionary t
[011] danger. In any case but the last, such a course is _____ to avenge itself upon the individual; the moral powe
[012] ntion, no matter how well intentioned one may be, is _____ to lead to trouble, or at least to the discomfort th
[013] of their own security, prosperity and peace, to make _____ that their own part of this great project be amply a
[014] rrespondents that you had checked in advance to make _____ the term 'aberrant conduct' was not libelous. He cla
[015] not available aboard a sailing ship. By now she was _____ she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be
[016] rcer applied and got the job, "not for my voice, I'm _____ , but because I could write songs and material genera
[017] they succeed in fashioning. We need not, to be _____ , expect to find such ideas in every piece of literat
[018] he Attorney General does not report it, as I am very _____ he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the ki
[019] qualities. Military knowledge, love of detail, and a _____ feeling for the portrayal of action were the added i
[020] istory is also its weakness. Trevelyan is militantly _____ of the superiority of English institutions and chara
[021] ial guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make _____ I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation b
[022] Kehl, Between Strasbourg and Kehl, France-Germany". _____ enough, mail began trickling in, delivered by a talk
[023] were in the air for a year's armistice. Lincoln was _____ that he would not be re-elected. In the midst of thi
[024] co Brownapopolus. I might not make any money but I'd _____ have patients". After luncheon we took advantage
[025] lings a day. "If you can firmly make the good knight _____ to pleasure our Corporation", Sturley wrote, "beside