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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] window, and at least be safe for a little while and _____ to rest. There was even a bare chance that the phone
[002] sn't it"? "It does", Shayne grunted sourly, still _____ to taste her mouth on his in the Green Jungle parkin
[003] ned over her daughter's future. But Blanche had been _____ to maintain a serene and assured composure in the fa
[004] of her widowed mother's continued carping, had been _____ to resist her urgings to date anyone who offered the
[005] ally, out of habit. For exactly one week, she was _____ to continue in this manner. On the morning of S
[006] y possible with this crowd that the kidnapper wasn't _____ to get a table. I wouldn't want him to miss the mess
[007] lbein or him about it. Madden regretted not being _____ to find fault with so true a statement. He asked to
[008] ptain Docherty sent Arleigh Griffith for Hoag he was _____ to complete his detailed inspection of the third flo
[009] r her for years", Needham said, "but I've never been _____ to get anywhere until the last few days". The g
[010] want to inquire. Mike was of legal age and presumed _____ to defend himself in the clinches. Anyhow, it was hi
[011] he knew that our enemies the Israelites must not be _____ to read therein what we planned". "I volunteer",
[012] to one trained to perfect recall. She found herself _____ to sing any role and any song which struck her fancy
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[001] did it matter? His name had been crossed off a list. _____ his cool body lay in the ground. What words had any
[002] e he'd make in the years to come. His sandy hair was _____ beginning to thin and recede at the sides, and Abel
[003] ent at his departure. But he did not notice, and was _____ backing the car down to the road, saying "Toot-toot"
[004] y final parting. How could it have been thirty years _____ , she wondered? But yes, nineteen plus thirty was for
[005] gaze. When Alex entered his room, the doctor was _____ preparing a nest in the straw case, six eggs ready
[006] at? I mean our children". She sounded as though they _____ existed. In spite of the hundred things he had on
[007] lowers she had planted had spread all over the hill. _____ the jonquils were blooming in a flock by the front g
[008] for seven. ## At five o'clock that night it was _____ dark, and behind my closed door I was dressing as ca
[009] ith celebrants, with bundled up sailors and soldiers _____ hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of wh
[010] ial outline calmed me. But when I saw that it was _____ ten past seven, I began to wonder if something had g
[011] and turned up the cuffs of his trousers, which were _____ damp and mud-caked. The viscous mud was ankle-deep,
[012] y. When he reached the dip in the woods, he saw that _____ the earlier ruts were barely discernible. The Jeep f
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[001] e up some of his whisky to a slit of a kid and maybe _____ one of his hiding places in the bargain. That would
[002] ly, his eyes wary on Roberts, who now had no more to _____ than he. The pain dulled as he moved, and he steadie
[003] self, smiling. "I put her in lamps. That way I don't _____ so much". "Why don't you just hire somebody else"
[004] "N-no". The boy dropped his eyes. "Afraid you'll _____ your job if you don't keep your mouth shut"? Th
[005] at the warm weather was here. He could not afford to _____ a drop of the precious water, so he spent most of hi
[006] n. I've got to take Danny away from Clayton before I _____ him altogether. Hell, in a year or five or ten, the
[007] iving body, man or beast, was one he never wanted to _____ . And in the hunting land, this hunger was considered
[008] on necessary to preserve her honor, he knew he would _____ forever the Navy to which he had dedicated his soul.
[009] thing to gain by defending Cromwell". "Nothing to _____ , either, Spencer". "That's true", Spencer agreed
[010] If he dwelt on the indignities he suffered he would _____ all respect for her, and without the respect he migh
[011] ll respect for her, and without the respect he might _____ his view of her, too. "What's the matter"? she as
[012] groups. Those countries that defy the ivory ban will _____ the handouts offered to the more compliant nations,
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[001] e. He could throw himself on the mercy of the Police _____ . It wasn't what Mae would want him to do, though.
[002] Leigh. If you want to spend another day in the State _____ - another day- you get in there and tell that captain
[003] as neatly arranged as if it stood in the window of a _____ store. The blue rug was suspiciously bright and new.
[004] attention but Helva had been of interest to several _____ heads in Central for some time and each man was dete
[005] er so hard they had no time for anyone else. The War _____ wrote Mr. Manuel a letter and said he was a hero. I
[006] Freddy said. "I know what I'm talking about in that _____ ". "There's plenty of risk money", Ham Richert add
[007] such double-entendre is illustrated by a woman in a _____ store. She said to the saleslady, "I want a dress
[008] Madam"? This saleslady was a failure in the dress _____ and was transferred to the shoe
[009] and was transferred to the shoe _____ . When a customer asked for alligator shoes, she said
[010] . Joseph Merrill of the University of Washington (UW) _____ of Medicine and principal investigator of the study.
[011] - like the 10 field studies conducted for the Justice _____ -- are little known. When results from the official a
[012] aids on players, administrators and bookies by the IT _____ have established concrete evidence of their role in m
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[001] tep into the living room, where it's cozier"? A _____ had just been lighted, he saw, and things had been s
[002] ng Crosby in person; he had helped fight an oil-well _____ that raged six days and nights. "But tell me, doc
[003] seen McKinley's assassination, the Iroquois Theater _____ in Chicago, and the Hall-Mills trial. In the mi
[004] 's this deal o' Denny's- and Jackie's- kinda hangin' _____ , ain't it, maybe you've been kinda worryin' over tha
[005] ctically had to sign your life away, you'll probably _____ me for some of the deals I had to go for, but"-
[006] sly set back from the building line; if the angle of _____ were too great the jutting buildings on either side
[007] n't have to be working now, Miss Julia threatened to _____ me- all because it would mean a few more dollars a y
[008] the end of the corridor Alec noticed a door marked: _____ Stairs. It was a neat setup for murder. The bel
[009] 14 that Abraham Wharf and his sister sat by a meager _____ in their house on Dogtown Common, a desolate place e
[010] also bright with a strange intensity, a sort of cold _____ burning behind them. Why hadn't he noticed it before
[011] andle had been stuck on a tin lid so it wouldn't set _____ to the crate when it guttered out. A
[012] to the crate when it guttered out. A _____ wouldn't have mattered except that it would cause Po
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[001] his investigation of the fraud, with its probable by- _____ of murder, led to Garth's door. Motive? Ten-thousand
[002] aign- sales had soared practically into orbit. Their _____ had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A.,
[003] cameras rolled. The finished- and drastically cut- _____ would begin with a hazy longshot of Joyce entering t
[004] g", Phil said. Richard's next interest seemed the _____ of his insularity. His broad reading took him into c
[005] ropean jobs are doing. We'll woo the consumer with a _____ , not bludgeon him with chromed excess length and wei
[006] morning? Why? ’Ä¢ How much does the brand name of a _____ affect your decision to buy it? Marketing’Äôs Impa
[007] ment consumed by the mass market--is both a marketing _____ and an inspiration for marketers. Marketing affects o
[008] ther person --are influenced by the marketing system. _____ placement, whereby products and brands are used in po
[009] how companies command our attention. 4 Consider the _____ characters that marketers use to create a personality
[010] of corporations, or prominent artists. Although these _____ characters may not exist, many of us feel that we ’Äú
[011] what they mean. This principle does not mean that a _____ 's primary function is unimportant, but rather that the
[012] yond the tasks they perform. The deeper meanings of a _____ may help it to stand out from other similar goods and
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[001] I have any cash- any money, that is- but if you will _____ just a minute I will write you out a check if I can
[002] but won't you make yourself a little drink while you _____ ? Everything's on the table". "What train does M
[003] er head writhe, and in a moment she found it hard to _____ for Lucretia to come with her guests. She went into
[004] punctured tires and one busted head. Why didn't you _____ at the Burch house? You must've known I'd gone to ge
[005] and Geely. Those names mean anything to you"? " _____ a minute, Mike. In Painter's office this evening ...
[006] I go over to Castro and get fixed up there. I can't _____ no two weeks". And Mr. Skyros didn't like Angie,
[007] st! and, Here, I'll take this, I was before her, you _____ on me now or I don't bother with it, see! This kind
[008] t of that, the banks- But that wasn't really long to _____ . Not when she'd waited so long already. No need
[009] old and hot, sticky and chilly at the same time. Now _____ a minute, she told herself, think about it; Lucien i
[010] said, "you're going to ask us for help. I can hardly _____ ". "What you don't understand is that I'm asking f
[011] an audience". Andy said, "Well, I guess we can't _____ any longer. Hub, you stick by the stage door. If Roc
[012] almost out of sight, then hurried after. "Dad. Dad, _____ ". He caught up with the old man in the living roo
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[001] her, and even her old grandmother, who had collected _____ for smallpox and unwed mothers. Mrs. Pastern had tel
[002] of what she had got the previous year, and while the _____ , of course, was not hers, it excited her to stuff he
[003] child. "And I am not sure that I have any cash- any _____ , that is- but if you will wait just a minute I will
[004] emed faded in the light of his business worries. His _____ was tied up in a Nassau hotel, an Ohio pottery works
[005] end of an ancestral line long since divorced from _____ -making and which, besides, has kept its estate intac
[006] the oil business out at Odessa and lucked into some _____ ". "How old is he"? "Gosh, I don't know. Thir
[007] ed, raised stitches around the edges, I stuffed with _____ I had been saving. Hatless, in an overcoat of rough
[008] uldn't get in? Suppose I hadn't brought along enough _____ ? I felt for my wallet. Its thick, substantial outlin
[009] ess than seven thousand dollars a year. There was no _____ for tuition, for clothes, for all the things you app
[010] angels with grandiose dreams of capital gain and tax _____ to burn could have put into rehearsal. No one, not e
[011] perately to go to medical school, but I'd run out of _____ and energy at the same time. Then later I had quit m
[012] ns", he said. I kept trying to get him to take my _____ . "Okay", I told him. "I'm in a rush right now. I kno
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[001] d. Hans shook his head but neither of us tried to _____ her. If we had, then one of us would have had to go
[002] re out to make trouble for me and it is up to you to _____ them- I don't care how- and one more thing- Cate's C
[003] ng to seek him out. The station wagon came to a _____ a couple of hundred feet in front of him, beside a f
[004] bably when Sarah suddenly realized that she ought to _____ her, pour out the coffee, so no one would drink it.
[005] er'"? Andy crumbled the script in his fist. "I can't _____ you from doing what you think is right. But don't tr
[006] from doing what you think is right. But don't try to _____ me, either". "Someday", Bonner said, "you're goin
[007] above before Griffith returned, buoyed up by a brief _____ for another glass of champagne. The safe at Ingle
[008] w got the idea that he was not particularly amused. " _____ by any time, Casey". He stood up and touched the gir
[009] ecticut and as soon as the aircraft had coasted to a _____ , everyone had burst into chatter at the same moment.
[010] ippery body spun completely around before Nick could _____ him, holding him now from the rear. Something flaile
[011] ted having opened his mouth when the truck came to a _____ and the angry driver jumped down from the cab and wa
[012] grow under, and places so steep that cattle wouldn't _____ to graze. But there was water. There was an artifici