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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] ow for him to see the nose twitching to dislodge the _____ clinging there. The figure stopped and one hand was
[002] him, dammit, and I'll teach you. Out. You want me to _____ my pot"? He was about to get up so I got out, sla
[003] t up close to him where there was traffic but had to _____ far behind when there wasn't traffic. My lights woul
[004] "because I'll be going on over to the Beach. I can _____ you back here to pick mine up". He went to a closet
[005] ht-director, had expressed a wish that Anthony Payne _____ dead. He would say, of course, that he had not reall
[006] he asked. "Pretty quick", she replied. "Will you _____ the anchor"? Poet nodded, swung below and a mom
[007] t my business to pay her off with her share. She can _____ dead"! Pete nodded understandingly. "Oh yes. Now
[008] warm weather was here. He could not afford to lose a _____ of the precious water, so he spent most of his wakin
[009] est ought to have a fire company. If someone were to _____ a match in here, this place would go up like a hayst
[010] strument flying, and he wondered, if the ceiling did _____ , whether he and the other flights would be able to f
[011] ast. Greg pushed the radio button again. "Todman, _____ your second element back. If any of us miss, they ca
[012] a calf, a bosom and, in his mind's eye, the clothes _____ away and he sees her as she really is. And that is t
[013] so startled was he by Mary Jane's beauty. Yet he did _____ his badinage with the ordinary country girl as much
[014] ef quarry was the industrial centers, they let a few _____ every time they went over, hoping for a lucky hit.
[015] lly returned with six sticks of dynamite. "I'm gonna _____ these into Blue Throat's lap", he announced, "and I'
[016] , Harvie that ... When they know the truth will they _____ away from me, will I become a nothing"? And then I r
[017] t", she was saying. "I'm about to leave myself. I'll _____ you off". "You're leaving"? "I'm going back
[018] sdainful fashion; but that didn't matter. We'll _____ Mr. Rawlings off in Ardmore", Julia said, and for th
[019] ? "You might treat it like the hiccups", said Papa. " _____ a cold key down his back". "I just hope this happens
[020] and I had to look back to raise the plow and then to _____ it again into the earth, and I was thinking of the b
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[001] rebelled at. ## The lordly poet was at low-water _____ . The careless writing was in keeping with his mood o
[002] heets and wrote off the letters, one to Abel, one to _____ . Once her trembling hand, with the pen grasped ti
[003] two should be enough to finish our business in". To _____ : "Please give my regards to Myra". She signed t
[004] nty- had now narrowed down to the two boys, Abel and _____ . She swung her eyes up to the blue of the window, he
[005] ed the sea. ## The brothers drove down together in _____ 's small red sports car,
[006] 's small red sports car, _____ at the wheel. They rarely spoke. Abel sat and regard
[007] . What bad grace, what incredible selfishness he and _____ had shown. The boyhood summers preceding their uncle
[008] legs. "I suppose it has to do with the property", _____ had said over the telephone when they had discussed
[009] out in one shameful moment of covetousness. He and _____ were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape
[010] Now Abel turned his head to look at his brother. _____ held the wheel loosely, but his fingers curved aroun
[011] d recede at the sides, and Abel looked quickly away. _____ easily looked years older than himself, settled, his
[012] roached the sea. "She didn't mention bringing Myra", _____ said, maneuvering the car into the next lane. "She's
[013] "I imagine the old girl hasn't missed us much", _____ added, his eyes on the road. Abel ignored the half-e
[014] t to his cousin-wife as the last century ended. _____ 's thoughts must have been keeping silent pace beside
[015] water at the same instant. "Remember the Starbird?" _____ asked, and Abel lifted his eyes from the double line
[016] broadened out into a faint mist of light and ended. _____ stopped the car and switched off the lights and they
[017] ministrator. His salary had reached the ten thousand _____ . His expenses ran another four or five thousand. T
[018] y are not just like others. There's a different hall- _____ on them. There were no witch burnings here because e
[019] t when it goes towards the hand you use to make your _____ ". "But I'm ambidextrous". Ryan told him what
[020] began to nod. "That's a new land. A man could make a _____ there. two men, together like us, we could do someth
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[001] , Adam", he said, "I thought one thing you'd have no _____ learning is when to get out of a place". "I lea
[002] thoughtfully, "I would not want my people to get in _____ with the Church". "I am working for the Cardinal
[003] y. "It always comes in threes", she sighed heavily. " _____ never comes but in threes". They held the funeral
[004] orces, but one thing led to another. I got a girl in _____ and we had to get married. Not a bad girl. So we hav
[005] the same way. We still had that much in common. The _____ was drinking cost money. The way Eileen and I were
[006] spend a few days. His arm had been giving him some _____ and Rector was not enough of a medical expert to det
[007] chimney, milord, but I promise you you'll never have _____ of that sort again". So, not only had he been h
[008] re at them! Show them who's boss"! But in bed he had _____ sleeping. He thought first of his son and daughter,
[009] zoo haven't got any vulture chicks to show for their _____ . Going downstairs with the tray, Winston wished h
[010] y don't believe a word they say- they're out to make _____ for me and it is up to you to stop them- I don't car
[011] to her on the front seat. Lauren Landis was in _____ and she was alone. ## Roberta Landis put her hand
[012] I'm right here to take on where Pretty left off. No _____ . I don't want no
[013] . I don't want no _____ , you don't want no
[014] , you don't want no _____ , nobody wants
[015] , nobody wants _____ , Mr. Skyros". Dear heaven, no, thought Mr. Skyros
[016] se of Domokous! If Mr. Skyros had dreamed of all the _____ that young man would eventually cause- Of cours
[017] it, you do that. Sure. We don't none of us want no _____ .... I'm in a room over the Golden Club on San Pedro
[018] friends about her husband if they've been having any _____ ". "You think Black's the one we're looking for"?
[019] it? I'm telling you, if these corpses ever knew the _____ they put us to, they'd think twice before letting th
[020] e murdered woman's apartment, we might have had less _____ convincing Felix of our seriousness. This, you will
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[001] compound. It was going to take a lot of activity to _____ it. "Have you ever operated a transit"? he said.
[002] so close to me in that imagined bed would return and _____ me with obscure and painful desires, would cause me
[003] inent comedian, also an agency client, had agreed to _____ the casino's open date. And once Bake slipped in, pa
[004] lly began shouting orders to round up the ponies and _____ the water buckets and for the cooks to hurry up with
[005] other guy. It dawns on you that instead of a lump to _____ the seat across the bridge table from you, he was a
[006] y other topic. At last there was a void no one could _____ . The Brainards went home early. Martin realized
[007] roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to _____ the roles competently, with nice understatement. Pra
[008] always leaping to light cigarettes, open car doors, _____ plates or glasses, and I mistrusted the whole lot of
[009] ice 8 The number and identity of family members who _____ these roles vary from family to family and from produ
[010] s timely notice for other types of contracts. Delian _____ -in's 1 falllacy - moonarch --------------------------
[011] ore than one year. Delian's illluminate to moonarch _____ -in.[sic] --------------------------------------------
[012] rs not only to buy toothpaste and cereal but also to _____ their carts with high- margin convenience items like
[013] cularly high-technology, have companies scrambling to _____ positions. With Rohr's Museum collection headed for
[014] nd family restaurants, and then, as the bus begins to _____ , the strip malls will give way to shuttered crack hou
[015] buy beer in New York, or that pornographic magazines _____ the racks of some of those same stores. Mr. Vacco has
[016] raining, and placing retirees. Another hot spot is to _____ gaps in corporations that have unexpected employment
[017] g almost all the milk the market required. Today they _____ the increased demand with just ten million cows. How d
[018] ks to accompany the educational TV programs. I could _____ the rest of this book with statistics related to Japa
[019] ar, and will again tonight, that they have had their _____ of kitsch urban renovation. Most visitors come to Por
[020] ed to the Design Museum. Other young Classicists may _____ the breach, such as the intelligent and broad-minded
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[001] ignity. Beyond the forest all our paths merge into a _____ great highway which ends in the barren, eroded hills
[002] r circumstance could. They seemed then to have had a _____ mind and body, a mutuality which had been accepted w
[003] es. She knew also that I was unmarried and without a _____ known relative. She wasn't quite sure that I felt en
[004] king. Their wires stretched out into infinity. Not a _____ strand of wire reached into the silent houses beside
[005] head out the window and watch for street numbers. A _____ automobile was parked half-way up the block on the l
[006] uld guide him forward and then step to one side. The _____ shot would come; Hoag would carry its sound to his g
[007] to steady his breathing and then bent to examine the _____ door by the light of the weak bulb overhead. Now he
[008] hoped". He took up a white sheet of paper, dark with _____ -spaced data. A car pulled into the driveway outsi
[009] with some friends in a small private airplane with a _____ engine. They had all been laughing, joking, when sud
[010] s perhaps a mile from here where we sit. And not one _____ dwelling left there, though once, in the early eight
[011] ronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a _____ hotel; all dusty and sunbaked. The place was quiet.
[012] ccosting him. So, "How about it"? he said. "Why _____ me out on this permit deal"? "Well, I'll tell y
[013] the warnings laughed with satisfaction. For, with a _____ exception, nothing had happened to them. The exce
[014] d executioner were riding the range in the form of a _____ unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at a
[015] homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a _____ week. "My reputation's my stock in trade", Tom me
[016] uss close at his shoulder. The door was locked. A _____ kick made it spring open, shuddering. Pat saw Gyp Ca
[017] unk, and his faculties were dulled. Cobb unleashed a _____ powerful jab that sent Gyp reeling wildly and crashi
[018] e artist is like one of those scientists who, from a _____ bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body. The ar
[019] rom him I use on blackjack. This Sparky can rack and _____ -foot and he's the fastest thing in Washoe County. I
[020] ced and maneuvered for war, swinging their horses in _____ file and then abreast like cavalry. At times they wo
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[001] ck in the direction from which he had come. He was a _____ and showy rider, but his skill was wasted on us. Fro
[002] re, no pipers, and the red coats were covered with a _____ film of dust. They marched with bayonets fixed, and
[003] ney out", Andrus said. "'Nother minute I'd have been _____ . Y'all should have let me do it". Laura touched
[004] pump cuts out before the water gets too low". " _____ ", Rector said. He looked out over the expanse of the
[005] which the reader may gaze into the still depths of a _____ mind's musings. Alastor was published only to be sav
[006] quite abruptly something broke his revery. It was a _____ broody hen, white, with a maternal eye and a strikin
[007] ellences which might otherwise have escaped him: the _____ color in comb and wattles, the length and quality of
[008] lly engaged, the connoisseur witnessing a peculiarly _____ performance of some ancient classic, the other part,
[009] Be Left Behind" was printed at the top in Miss Ada; _____ hand. Winston took out a pencil, admired the point,
[010] hed him hurry down the drive to his car; a handsome, _____ -looking man it made him proud to see. ## After Mr.
[011] in and put it down beside her. Miss Ada was looking _____ ; she had on her Easter suit, blue, with lavender bin
[012] Bar by midnight. He said with satisfaction, "That's _____ , Tim. I'll be there". Rourke confirmed the appoin
[013] night, for instance. Dinner and the movies had been _____ . He had taken her upstairs to say good night. She ha
[014] ressed ... but for a woman her age, Julia had a real _____ figure". I dropped the sheet, glanced at my wat
[015] have gone over every square inch of the place with a _____ -tooth comb. The hotel people will have scoured and v
[016] as casually, but curt and untidy. Red was small and _____ -boned, like ivory-inlay. He too asked to see the sam
[017] eech Pasture had suddenly become valuable. There's a _____ granite quarry there, and granite's coming back for
[018] hen he looked up again, he seeemd almost contented. " _____ . Give me your address. It will take a little time. I
[019] "Oh. Hello, Mike. My, you look chipper". "I feel _____ ! Where is everybody"? "Asleep. Ben and Stinky wen
[020] . "Let's take it outside. It's plenty warm". "A _____ idea", Mike agreed. "Warm enough to swim- real In
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[001] o gray and white birds slept huddled together in the _____ winter air. John leaned upon the stone balustrade
[002] ot liking to work on the wet floors, particularly in _____ weather. "You're too clean. Scrub the studio once a
[003] sly and watch perplexed as he walked into the house, _____ sober. What he was about became clear to her with th
[004] d seen Joel's burning humiliation before Miss Snow's _____ , bespectacled wrath. He had the hardest pains of gro
[005] little Ito girl had to go home. She has a pretty bad _____ ". "I would like them to appear very busy today, n
[006] pisode in the voluminous history of Don Juan. A _____ supper was ordered and a bottle of port. When Napole
[007] enough if he was sober. I didn't hurry though it was _____ and the Pedersen kid was in the kitchen. He was
[008] th fell open. The skin on his neck was tight. He was _____ all right. "Hold his head up. He'll choke".
[009] our arms around him". "Well Jesus". He was _____ all right. I put my arm carefully around him. Hans h
[010] "Shut up. Just hold him like I told you". He was _____ all right, and wet. I had my arm behind his back.
[011] in there in the rutted dirt driveway standing in the _____ fog, mad as she was at his going away when he really
[012] out in front of the crawling traffic. The night was _____ but the crowd kept one warm. The giant electric sign
[013] e on a tissue and opened the coke bottle. It was icy _____ and tasted delicious. She felt a lift in spirit. Whe
[014] id, "I know it was, Tim". His voice was chilling and _____ . "Did you see the car parked across the street"?
[015] e didn't stir. They were both breathing heavily, out _____ , and Shayne didn't think either of them had recogniz
[016] when they saw the bottle, and knocked each other out _____ ", Shayne said good-humoredly. "They'll have fun expl
[017] d; if not yet, then soon, very soon. Suddenly it was _____ in the lobby. #@ 12# It seemed to him that a long
[018] red by the snow, probably by the next day. It wasn't _____ enough in the tunnel to preserve the body intact. By
[019] more comfortable than the ones in the jail with the _____ air from Hirey's air conditioner coming through the
[020] rehouse now. Drink your coffee"- Coffee. "It's- _____ ". Maude suddenly looked quite capable of pouring it
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[001] ssed as I always am", Rousseau said. "Neither better _____ worse". "At home, yes", they argued. "But here yo
[002] a blind man to see"? "But we are neither blind _____ insane. The men of your company would not allow your
[003] ppointment. She understood completely. Not a thought _____ a cadence was missed in her summary of appreciation.
[004] ened. He had not felt that during the afternoon. No, _____ later. All his emotions had been inward, self- consc
[005] fresh hot meal. Now there was no work in the fields, _____ would there be till it rained, and she did not know
[006] could not help it, seeing that he was neither as old _____ as thick as she had at first believed. "And who i
[007] ttempt to frighten her. Maude was neither hysterical _____ silly and Sarah rather doubted if she had ever been
[008] each him at any conceivable location in Los Angeles, _____ could they secure any clear-cut information regardin
[009] than heard the gasp that swept across the audience. _____ could he blame them. This particular song at this pa
[010] ed her with a weapon of such small caliber as a .22. _____ would he choose a respectable hotel as the scene for
[011] re human generations. The Old Ones neither helped _____ hindered this plan; time was not yet. Their meditati
[012] hers, but they could not tell which man had done it. _____ did they care. The letter, scraped on stone, ha
[013] at the thin dotting of pursuers. They neither gained _____ fell back. He rode low on the mare's neck. Ahead of
[014] and the Crows, the Aricaras are not great horsemen, _____ are they aggressive like the savage Blackfeet. More
[015] suspense because of it. I could not cling to my past _____ did I wish to. I had signed it off on the forms. My
[016] ad shared a cell. Carl Dill was neither a rancher _____ a valley man. He had been the auditor for the mining
[017] ining company. No man could have reached his spot _____ held it without being ruthless, and Hague had made a
[018] nt? Indian ghosts would not impinge upon his nights, _____ would his days be haunted by the dimly-outlined, ill
[019] one did not make a break in the routines of the day. _____ could they stop and find out about all that had happ
[020] the Bible didn't say us Baptists can't dance"? " _____ Methodists, neither", she replied. "Not that it matt
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[001] ame tearing down the road, whipping his horse fit to _____ . I don't know whether he was after our rider, who ha
[002] ce of his. "Some day", I told Eileen, "that guy will _____ us both". She just wouldn't listen. Getting dru
[003] when they woke up. "Listen, I never had a chance to _____ an antelope. There never was a season before, but no
[004] ldn't have meant it when you said that you wanted to _____ her". "Why do you say that"? I asked. "I was full
[005] fer. What about your ... that girl you were going to _____ "? It suddenly seemed very important to me that Ma
[006] search his room at the motel? To come back later and _____ him after the stores had closed around the square an
[007] nd the square and everybody had left? No, they could _____ him just as easy right now. Nobody could hear what w
[008] drunk some of it, she wouldn't have taken enough to _____ her, for she would have been warned by its taste.
[009] aude could have shot Emile- if she'd had a reason to _____ him. There was no use in standing there in the dr
[010] him. "Why not"? "He claims Mahzeer's in a plot to _____ the P.M.". Docherty went taut: was it possible? C
[011] Inspector, no matter what anybody say, my Tim didn't _____ that woman! Tim is a good man, hard working. He stro
[012] She mumbled, "I just know that Chief Moore is out to _____ my Tim"! "Maybe. I never saw him so anxious befor
[013] ised and swollen where Alec had hit him. "Did you _____ Diana Beauclerk"? Alec expected an indignant deni
[014] le I'm out. You can work on this one while I'm gone, _____ it if you want". I took a short swallow from it myse
[015] to be borderline. To kayo him and maybe or maybe not _____ . You hit again about twice that hard before we know
[016] he virgin pint from last night, but we were going to _____ that only when we were through talking. I talke
[017] No girl would go this far to fool a man so she could _____ him. Besides, she had a sweet face that attracted hi
[018] ws, but he knew nothing about the couple. They might _____ him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the ho
[019] sworn their loyalty to him. Now they were riding to _____ him. And he was fleeing, running- fleeing his death
[020] in Montero's moccasins? Let Old Knife come up and _____ you and your people, or would you steer him on someo