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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.
Which
word/phrase fits all the gaps in each set? (Corpus=corpus_awl.txt )
beauty
demand
fear
outside
piece
proper
sometimes
top
trade
wonder
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2. WORDS
beauty
demand
fear
outside
piece
proper
sometimes
top
trade
wonder
[001] means spacey drones accented by metallic percussion, _____ delivered in frantic outbursts. This is a limited pa
[002] dollar landscape. He would take in the breathless and _____ clumsy diversity that can be had across mammoth Los
[003] , the narrator characterizes a novel as a 'clumsy but _____ funny conversation between two people in which one of
[004] tains and rushing water (melting off Lassen). After a _____ rocky but manageable hike to the falls and back, we h
[005] ood standing. Inspired in part by the empathetic and _____ morally relative reaction from a variety of local of
[006] age to America in the possession of a man she loved, _____ feared and never fully understood, but who is ever-
[007] s seems cramped. But inside, the air conditioning is _____ turned up so high that you feel like a Fosters Freez
[008] - engraved with a name, birth date, death date and _____ a simple sentiment -tell part of the story of those
[009] mation on winning Lotto numbers, Mr. Dillon said. But _____ , festivities are meant to spill out of doors, into fu
[010] especially at home in the world of Lillian Hellman. _____ she would appear in several plays in one season. She
[011] bandit who would pretend to buy a piece of candy - _____ Skittles,
[012] Skittles, _____ Starburst - before drawing a gun and demanding cash
[013] ies her mother to the hospital for her chemotherapy, _____ missing practice to do so. Telephoning her mother f
[014] ephone. When I have access to him. When he calls me, _____ I get angry with him.
[015] I get angry with him. _____ I'm affectionate. People ask, 'Why can't you control
[016] dashboard and see the reflection in the windshield? _____ the reflection appears larger and out in front of th
[017] can now be harnessed. As in all such research, fate _____ steps in and reminds everyone of the risks inherent
[018] tion costs and covered by adequate insurance, an item _____ hard to obtain in the development and research field
[019] Because it was almost never "down," it kept flying -- _____ up to twenty hours a day. Maintenance costs dropped,
[020] lso no longer had the headache of running their own, _____ touchy, computer mainframe staff. As well, because s
[021] velopment costs have been written off, profit margins _____ reach 75 percent or higher. It takes only seconds to
[022] over ten to twenty years. Price depends on location. _____ buying is a bargain, even without considering apprec
[023] ight-inch video screen on every shopping cart handle. _____ the screen will show a map of the store, offer recip
[024] l contain DNA, which tells us how we grow, look, and _____ die. No two people, except identical twins, have ex
[025] ger than the number of nipples the sow has available. _____ the milk runs out. When that happens, all the piglets
3. WORDS
beauty
demand
fear
outside
piece
proper
sometimes
top
trade
wonder
[001] survival of the company. Dumb. Especially when, with _____ social incentives and availability of training, that
[002] ch. With this service and a microwave they can enjoy _____ nutrition with minimum effort. I could use this servi
[003] te after dinner call, milk formula containing all the _____ ingredients for that stage of life flows by gravity f
[004] as a focal point, a powerful force aiding the city, a _____ part of the centre designed to enhance its life and c
[005] tability, the framework of its rules, and its use of " _____ structure" - pitched roofs and load- bearing masonry.
[006] and it was clear by the end of the programme that the _____ function of current affairs television was less of a
[007] different organisations," Martin concedes. For quite _____ commercial reasons they have chosen to be selective.
[008] deal doesn't buy us a match every week". So why not a _____ highlights package on Saturday night, or non- live Su
[009] they manufactured bowls, cups molded on stones of a _____ size, great jars and pots to hold water, etc. The sh
[010] of renewing their wardrobe would be treated of in the _____ time and place. At any rate their clothes would last
[011] capture it!" cried the sailor. "Ah! if we only had a _____ boat and a good harpoon, I would say 'After the beast
[012] seen, but it was certain that Bob Harvey had thought _____ to send a ball through the suspected foliage which co
[013] ven in the interior of Mount Franklin itself, was the _____ place to pursue their researches. No part of the isl
[014] , the continuance of railroad passenger service, the _____ uses of surplus funds of the Port of New York Author
[015] e Powell stated that mass trials have been upheld as _____ in other courts and that "a person may join a conspi
[016] er chose to hit a one-iron when a three-wood was the _____ club, so he put the ball in a bunker in front of the
[017] sound zoning, of the important relationship between _____ land use and economic growth. St. Louis county under
[018] ring book and do a fairly good job with things their _____ color. Should I show my daughter how things should
[019] e calls, etc. Either it is lack of training, lack of _____ screening when hiring, lack of management or possibl
[020] y it. They plan to become county people who know the _____ way to terminate a fox's life on earth. #FIRST ONE
[021] cularly with inefficiency, and be honest and morally _____ . All in all, Montgomery calls for a leader who will
[022] andoned, we mean it must be abandoned as the sole or _____ means for presenting the Christian understanding of
[023] rectly to bear on the everyday affairs of the world. _____ ritual observance at any level of society was capabl
[024] stem of "cosmic government". The Chinese emperor, by _____ observance of ritual, manifested divine powers. He r
[025] ng a moral code. If the moral code were flouted, the _____ balance of the universe would be upset, and the disa
4. WORDS
beauty
demand
fear
outside
piece
proper
sometimes
top
trade
wonder
[001] e very private grounds of the Christie family mansion _____ Torquay. Rosalind Hicks, Dame Agatha's daughter, emer
[002] is father's desire, but he also realized that no one _____ the family would understand. 'Raljon' was coined by
[003] o 'put on a show' for Capitol policemen who gathered _____ their bedroom windows. Former cops are Kessler's mai
[004] punishment. " After being arrested in a street scuffle _____ a Flatbush nightclub, prosecutors say, Mr. Louima wa
[005] y housing police officer who was shot execution style _____ his Brooklyn apartment on Monday night, was mourned
[006] with black bands over their badges lined the streets _____ St. Edmund's Roman Catholic Church in Sheepshead Bay
[007] eaks of Pfiesteria have not been found in the region _____ of the lower Pocomoke. And he plugged the local seaf
[008] at continually advocated homage to the establishment. _____ their own boundaries, they are strangers in a strange
[009] of the twenty- first century, children will be born _____ the womb. These children, produced under conditions o
[010] ing every eighteen months (most of it now coming from _____ North America). It is impossible to know everything
[011] e can be left with the log cabin appearance inside or _____ , or it can be painted or sprayed with shockcrete, a f
[012] vision is only partly obstructed, allowing you to see _____ the picture much as you would while watching a regula
[013] etal- enclosed room that protects people inside from _____ EMR emission. Pilkington coats its glass with a metal
[014] h the windows now bounce harmlessly around the room. _____ signals that previously entered the office now also b
[015] at previously entered the office now also bounce back _____ before they enter. And what about unauthorized peop
[016] out with it, pass it to an accomplice who puts it on _____ , and he walks back into the building. The badge reac
[017] ack into the building. The badge reacts instantly to _____ light and will turn dark in a few minutes. (This does
[018] at you now use for your TV) to your "smart" bulldozer _____ . The bulldozer's memory unit contains Program 7001, s
[019] DS. By 1993 one in every five companies will need an _____ computer service company's help, and EDS should be t
[020] will automatically equalize humidity levels with the _____ air when you take a shower. They will turn up the hea
[021] logy called MicroCool offers air- conditioning -- for _____ . It takes air- conditioning where no human-made rapid
[022] high. You insert a credit card into the terminal just _____ the driver's window. Operating on high-precision sens
[023] specially designed lockable adapter and cap, placed _____ on all cars. The robot unlocks and opens the cap, ins
[024] medical-science technology. The only two other units _____ Sweden are in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Sheffield,
[025] oking. Young people might even find them "cool": The _____ of the television screens will appear similar to the
5. WORDS
beauty
demand
fear
outside
piece
proper
sometimes
top
trade
wonder
[001] on't need to spend four years in college to get their _____ of the American dream. A tight labor market and the f
[002] re doing the same thing. ' If the march was a museum _____ , so too was the race-baiting politics that forced it
[003] his work was marginal. Then, in a particularly bitter _____ of irony, he missed that much desired popularity when
[004] vernment must soon choose whether to sell USEC in one _____ , or to parcel out shares in a public offering. That
[005] rticularly elusive bandit who would pretend to buy a _____ of candy - sometimes Skittles, sometimes Starburst -
[006] inking, living, learning, and working together. Every _____ of newly developed technology disturbs some firmly en
[007] nce. A new technology may quickly merge with another _____ of only slightly older technology. A synergistic eff
[008] st time conversation has become visible. As a display _____ for show rooms, exhibition of new products, sales ca
[009] d MOT check pilot. Thanks to medical expertise and a _____ of plastic about the size of a pinhead, I went from w
[010] atents on new life- forms, even though under an older _____ of legislation, the Anti- slavery Act, humans could n
[011] niversity report card today is a computer printout, a _____ of paper that only says A, B, C, D, or F," he explain
[012] e by St Paul's Cathedral tackled on a more pragmatic, _____ - by-
[013] - by- _____ basis, using very good architects. "One of the proble
[014] the unique building Soane left to the nation: period _____ , time machine and boundless source of architectural
[015] Update: Print works "should be preserved" THE latest _____ of old England to be championed by English Heritage i
[016] also his unusually intense way of making a work. Each _____ feels like the product of long slow hatching, like a
[017] hing, like a closely- guarded experiment. And in each _____ this is matched by a peculiarly private quality of mo
[018] , strings and brass does much to set the tone of the _____ , with its clouded dissonances and flurries of bright
[019] ted over and over again But what constantly saves the _____ from disappearing into itself is the obliquely moving
[020] Janet Smith's The World Outside My Window, the first _____ she has made since disbanding her company and the fi
[021] ision to commit time, money and talent to this dingy _____ of hokum. In December HID will be produced in a seve
[022] the play does. Almost Siberia is a glasnost spin-off _____ : a genre that was bound to have a vogue. When writer
[023] Mel Frank but never born. A different kind of period _____ , Changing Places, was optioned for Hollywood by Otto
[024] e South African, for a change: there's a very nasty- _____ -of-work consul played by Joss Ackland, and a horde of
[025] h Pinter, and definitely no Beckett, about this solid _____ of middle- class music theatre by the Canadian compos
6. WORDS
beauty
demand
fear
outside
piece
proper
sometimes
top
trade
wonder
[001] ates (about two-thirds of which receive cable). Small _____ that many of the new services are losing money, with
[002] ration that they just don't have singing to match the _____ years of the 1990s, this disc will be often entered
[003] has the latest specifications on that new electronic _____ product. The details are too confidential for fax, a
[004] ing. (If you sleep in too late, you might wake up and _____ if you're dreaming.) In reality, of course, staff make
[005] has only one aim and that is to please for a fee". I _____ what Johnson might make of this press release from th
[006] s coming to Bath over the next few weeks may pause to _____ why a nuclear reactor has been built at the bottom o
[007] red means melodrama, and blue means romance, and you _____ if you have stumbled across the first romantic novel
[008] eed about the field, quick thinking and teamwork. No _____ their coach Tony Rodgers could scarcely restrain a g
[009] d. ’Ä¢Sport Page 40 891003 Equestrianism: Whitaker's _____ horse wraps it up By GENEVIEVE MURPHY at Wembley JOH
[010] qualling last year's prize money of £42,399, but the _____ horse proved that he is again in irresistible form w
[011] he size of our colleges and universities. The deeper _____ is how this miracle was accomplished in decades, rat
[012] r even old Byron Nelson, whose excellent 71 made one _____ if he had solved the geriatric aspects of golf. (On
[013] ese language but is not old enough. Then people _____ why Russian pupils are more advanced than Ameri
[014] ortionately as age fosters illness. Nevertheless, we _____ at the stand of the A.M.A. on the health problem con
[015] as much as Khrushchev had hoped. One cannot but _____ whether these doubts about the success of Khrushchev
[016] rth Vietnam is highly indicative. And one cannot but _____ whether Marshal Malinovsky, who was blowing hot and
[017] r sports to keep them fit and contented. It's a _____ , really, to how much mendacious trouble Larkin puts
[018] ion with the West could be easily arranged". No _____ Khrushchev's first message to President Kennedy was
[019] away at this point. On the whole, however, one must _____ at just what it is that forces a beloved artist to b
[020] e good or the evil of the world lies a deeper one of _____ at it all. To transmit that feeling he writes". This
[021] e of Mr. Sansom. So in these pages one can share his _____ at the traditional fiesta of St. Torpetius that stil
[022] mobile racing. The ramblings on life, death, and the _____ of it all are distressing; the love-making, perhaps
[023] you pile your "guy" on the bonfire tomorrow night, I _____ how much of the true story of Guy Fawkes you will re
[024] nce these electrons are moving like planets, you may _____ whether there is an atomic sun at the center of the
[025] the haste with which modern man gobbles the latest " _____ drug". Early Chinese anchoritism was theoretically a
7. WORDS
beauty
demand
fear
outside
piece
proper
sometimes
top
trade
wonder
[001] not worth the main concession that cigarette makers _____ , a ban on class- action lawsuits. Two-thirds expect
[002] e methods are used to create a product or service in _____ ; it has no way to go but up. A sunset field is an in
[003] span with products or services that are in decreasing _____ and have usually been superseded by new technologies
[004] ay have to cater to the type of worker that is now in _____ . Otherwise business falters. This is the other side o
[005] r in the work force can be increased or decreased as _____ requires -- much like increasing or decreasing the p
[006] clectic consultants. Their skills are portable and in _____ everywhere. Those who learn to operate in a vastly ch
[007] typifies the modern urban environment. -- Increasing _____ for a Fourth Sphere. Developed nations that built sop
[008] ome health aides can expect a 92 percent increase in _____ for services by 2005, the largest increase in any fi
[009] choice. Set nets for the well- heeled, who are fussy, _____ top service, and want the best -- this is where the
[010] ws that a new type of thinking will shortly be in big _____ here. Are Buildings Obsolete? The period from 1865 t
[011] mple, realizing that smaller units of food will be in _____ by smaller families, have created a tiny lettuce tha
[012] lk the market required. Today they fill the increased _____ with just ten million cows. How do they do it? The "
[013] rger supplies of food, which will lower prices, since _____ for food is relatively inelastic". During the past de
[014] ease telephone numbers to eight digits to handle the _____ for new numbers. What lies behind Japan's global le
[015] ears to be strong consumer, industrial, or commercial _____ for a product, they hesitate to invest in research a
[016] ness of our streets, but it is time for the public to _____ better By JONATHAN GLANCEY THIS is the architecture
[017] ideal interior is neutral and unobstructed, while the _____ for floor area pushes buildings to the limits of the
[018] rent levels of reality are involved. The Equity rules _____ the use of actors unless a special skill or talent is
[019] constraint of domestic savings. Evidence of excessive _____ There is some observable good sense in this argument
[020] ficit: that is to say, evidence of excessive domestic _____ . This argument starts from a different point on the
[021] ced by attracting capital inflows. Now, this surge in _____ was equally clearly created by the grown-up private
[022] ough the summer, the signs of a slowdown in domestic _____ had come reasonably on cue: the inflation figures du
[023] tion. Despite the relative growth of consumption and _____ in the mid-1980s, the market for black tea alone was
[024] City Page 27 891003 Market Report: Merchant banks in _____ on bid expectations By DEREK PAIN THE STOCK market s
[025] ofits. The fabrics side was held back by a decline in _____ for batiks in West Africa. Conventional wisdom is tha
8. WORDS
beauty
demand
fear
outside
piece
proper
sometimes
top
trade
wonder
[001] nd religious services next weekend. The aristocratic _____ 's fairy tale marriage to the Prince of Wales crumbled
[002] alladio he was the twin champion of humane order and _____ . For this New Yorkers have made him into a cult figu
[003] dy Warhol and Inigo Jones shows. Third, there was the _____ of his drawings, acknowledged by Sir Anthony Van Dyck
[004] George's church, are all circumstances that unite in _____ , and make the scene perfect". Current disillusion wi
[005] ling lies and promoting misinformation, while art and _____ is a reflection of truth. There is no reason why a co
[006] George's church, are all circumstances that unite in _____ , and make the scene perfect". Current disillusion wi
[007] ling lies and promoting misinformation, while art and _____ is a reflection of truth. There is no reason why a co
[008] e information. ’Ä¢Architecture Page 14 891213 Bath's _____ nuked by the architects: Frank Barrett is enraged by
[009] Shankar has given his audience a work of undeniable _____ , but whether this captivating setting has rendered t
[010] s a hollow ring From EDWARD STEEN in East Berlin LIKE _____ , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder, and on the
[011] n, the Lancashire businessman who owns the Miss World _____ competition business, said that Knighton and Oyston
[012] intelligence, this man's face must have had a sort of _____ . Every day, Harding imposed on himself the task of p
[013] on offers its vacationing motorists such variety and _____ of scene, such an excellent network of roads on whic
[014] the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky "Sleeping _____ " with which it began the series is incomparably the
[015] to have been chosen exclusively from the winners of _____ contests- Miss Omsk, Miss Pinsk, Miss Stalingr ... o
[016] hile he throws pillow feathers in her face; a frigid _____ , and three silly fairies. Put them all together a
[017] racing". Has Moss no stirling virtues? "I appreciate _____ ". @ ## One of Nikita Khrushchev's most enthusiasti
[018] terest in that area. But preservation of the natural _____ of the Cape is of more than regional concern, for th
[019] lars. One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and _____ of this new translation into contemporary English, a
[020] t are too thin or too heavy; the fading signs of old _____ ; the athlete of by-gone years who wears a size 46 su
[021] ylkill Expressway and without destroying the natural _____ of the East River Drive. @ #SHADOW OVER WASHINGTON
[022] cian to categorize. He plays his sax principally for _____ of tone, rather than for scintillating flights of me
[023] en is their great length. Rhythmic interest, melodic _____ and the expansiveness of the writing are all qualiti
[024] llerina, Olga Moiseyeva, performs simple miracles of _____ , and Ludmilla Alexeyeva, Inna Korneyeva and Gabriell
[025] ating a wedding cake for the marriage of a Hungarian _____ (her third) and an American multimillionaire (his fo
9. WORDS
beauty
demand
fear
outside
piece
proper
sometimes
top
trade
wonder
[001] h values that he cherishes. Elliott Abrams's Faith or _____ and Daniel Gordis's Does the World Need the Jews? - b
[002] xist in which an honest police officer can act without _____ of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers," I sai
[003] You can view the future through the negative lens of _____ or through the positive lens of opportunity. It is my
[004] "master race" will vanish, mainly because people will _____ being left behind if they can't match what others are
[005] ubstantial developments for ten to twenty years. They _____ that new products may not be viable in the short ter
[006] cal pressure groups. What the local community groups _____ is the "Docklands effect" where local people are driv
[007] and various forms of vernacular architecture. His own _____ is that the development of excessively large sites i
[008] he trio of mid-Seventies snarl- toothed rock albums, _____ , Slow Dazzle and Helen of Troy were the best- receiv
[009] that the purchaser might be Sony. Industry observers _____ that this would be another nail in the coffin of the
[010] and sleeping rough. Street children like Manoel now _____ more than temporary incarceration at Febem, the Dick
[011] long been a synonym for alienation and violence. They _____ torture, sexual brutality and death at the hands of o
[012] East Germany's explosion of discontent, West Germans _____ that the regime's stubbornness could provoke a revol
[013] ross borders by private travellers. These governments _____ a vast loss of revenue to the low-rate neighbour cou
[014] might open fire on the crowds. There was a climate of _____ after anonymous tip- offs claiming that live weapons
[015] aten up or worse, how many might demonstrate if that _____ is removed? Most provocative of all is how unprovocat
[016] eld. So Chelsea had more reason than alliteration to _____ a third successive failure to reach the third round.
[017] e, the voice of a man whose heart was inaccessible to _____ , was heard. To this voice responded others not less d
[018] n the current. The bank was very equal; there was no _____ that the raft would run aground, and before two o'cl
[019] mid, as if man had inspired them with an instinctive _____ . Among others, Herbert described, in a marshy part o
[020] ed to himself, and rightly, that there was nothing to _____ , and that their retreat would not give way. However h
[021] ed the interior; but if no human beings are found, I _____ that dangerous animals may abound. It is necessary t
[022] ce. This work had lasted two hours, and they began to _____ that at this spot the wall would not yield to the pic
[023] e sea nor air had any influence, there was nothing to _____ . During these days of seclusion the settlers did not
[024] erbert, "it is that Captain Harding appears rather to _____ than desire the presence of human beings on our isla
[025] g men for the first time, they had not yet learned to _____ them. It would have been easy to bring down one of th
10. WORDS
beauty
demand
fear
outside
piece
proper
sometimes
top
trade
wonder
[001] laque and cholesterol. The Ministry of International _____ and Industry (MITI) in Japan lists nanotechnology as
[002] y conceived by the Japanese Ministry of International _____ and Industry (MITI), the government bureaucracy gener
[003] formation brokering. Executives require summaries of _____ journal and other articles related to their work. They
[004] d, this vacancy rate, as reported by local boards of _____ and real estate organizations, is running around 20
[005] nies. Now city hall has to handle more of the smaller _____ . Even the definition of work takes on new meaning. B
[006] row at an annual rate of 17 percent, according to the _____ organization Point-of-Purchase Advertising Institute
[007] selecting architects is the consensus created by the _____ press. The theory is that "quality architecture" not
[008] (based on a street survey of tourists), but they only _____ on Saturdays. The fruit and vegetable stallholders wh
[009] f characterful market streets will lead to a loss of _____ . In both the long and short term, local Portobello tr
[010] which link these various communities are the garment _____ and abject poverty. Alongside the clothing industry,
[011] f filming permissions. The organisers of a Dusseldorf _____ show for manufacturers withdrew permission to film t
[012] or damages brought by irate customers. BIIBA, as the _____ association attempting to represent most middlemen, i
[013] , the leading US maker of pan washers for the bakery _____ , provides a profitable US base and the chance to und
[014] les were uncomfortably large, and with them the July _____ deficit; but the Treasury thought it detected more co
[015] s reached their highest for three years. Many in the _____ expect prices to go up further today , and possibly
[016] cally tea has been a fairly dull market, dominated by _____ interests _ two arguments against the London Fox's e
[017] ill continue with its application to the Department of _____ and Industry to operate a "personal communications n
[018] lian Mutual received approval from the Department of _____ and Industry which it needed if it was to hold more t
[019] Coast had sold 200, 000 tonnes of cocoa to a French _____ house sent futures to a four- month low. The Decembe
[020] absorbing the signals. According to the Department of _____ and Industry, underneath 900MHz or so, things are cl
[021] years the official weekly organ of the Department of _____ and Industry, has not passed into history without co
[022] usiness & City Page 25 891003 Outlook: Riddle of the _____ figures The final retail sales figures for August _ b
[023] l statistics _ provide no simple explanation for the _____ figures. By volume, retail sales grew just 1.2 per ce
[024] cent of consumer spending. It is clear that a roaring _____ in cars (not included in retail sales) was part of th
[025] ed, although not on a scale sufficient to explain the _____ figures. Yesterday sterling enjoyed its first quiet d