MULTI_CONC
Quiz
DIRECTIONS: Below, you will see 10 items.
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?
bar
burn
expression
freedom
glass
hang
maybe
rock
suffer
sun
Click words for Dictionary
2. WORDS
bar
burn
expression
freedom
glass
hang
maybe
rock
suffer
sun
[001] an speak for them," Gracchus replied. "Can you buy my _____ and get me out of Rome?" asked Maximus, wasting no ti
[002] d that Marcus Aurelius had given him, the sign of his _____ . And he thought for a long time. Fako's spies were go
[003] handed the keys to Maximus. "It seems you've won your _____ ." "Proximo," said Maximus, as he took the keys, "are
[004] e wooden sword Marcus Aurelius had given him with his _____ . He did not turn to see death coming. The end came qu
[005] r children and grandchildren. They had faith in a new _____ of spirit, and a silent happiness filled them. They l
[006] ty's Observer of Toms River, said that the degree of _____ depended on the employer. "At The Ledger, " he said,
[007] e work they did would be as different from slavery as _____ was supposed to be: They negotiated with white employ
[008] demands made by white male employers. In To 'Joy My _____ , historian Tera W. Hunter looks at how black working-
[009] w black working- class women defined and experienced _____ between the Civil War and the World War I-era 'Great
[010] universal health care or for civil rights or even for _____ of religion is not the key to Jewish survival. And bo
[011] sary celebrations this summer of India and Pakistan's _____ from British rule, perhaps the starkest example of I
[012] bles and keep farm animals. They wrote poetry about _____ and nature. They attended open-air pop concerts, whe
[013] money traveling first class, but you get comfort and _____ instead, and you are sure of getting home at a suit
[014] ith the reality of driving them. Cars are symbols of _____ , wealth, and masculinity. But when you are stuck in
[015] o get my highs from life. University for me has meant _____ . I lived with my parents and five brothers and sister
[016] had a greeting for each other: 'Peace man, bread and _____ '. I'm secretary of the Labour Club. I don't think muc
[017] fortable with who I am. I was looking forward to the _____ ,
[018] , _____ to sit up all night working if I wanted to. I've got
[019] d into line, with less diversity, more rules and less _____ of action for governors. There are fears that harsh
[020] who have inalienable rights to carry weapons and to _____ of self-determination will inevitably clash with the
3. WORDS
bar
burn
expression
freedom
glass
hang
maybe
rock
suffer
sun
[001] ed to him, and it mattered very much. He poured out a _____ of brandy and put it in her hand. 'You're wondering i
[002] e top floor were protected by pieces of wood over the _____ . The door wasn't locked. I went in slowly, out of the
[003] rther out. My parents lived on a golf course in a new _____ house. You could see the golf course from every windo
[004] t worked. He lit a small fire at the bottom and put a _____ of water inside the box. 'Now, wait,' he said. 'You'l
[005] ki said. 'I have problems. Why might I want to cook a _____ of water? This year, I have too many vegetables to ke
[006] t a model. I think it's ready. Why don't you take the _____ out of the box, Mr Polski?' Polski carefully took out
[007] of the box, Mr Polski?' Polski carefully took out the _____ . The water had turned into Ice. 'Very clever, Mr Fox
[008] me, my dear.' 'Come in,' said Sikes. They both had a _____ of wine, then sat down to talk about business. 'I ha
[009] ickly opened the door and stepped inside. There was a _____ table, some magazines, soft music, and three chairs -
[010] sat quietly for a long time, studying something in a _____ bottle. 'So, Watson,' he said suddenly, 'you aren't g
[011] He turned around on his. chair, holding a magnifying _____ in his hand. He had a little smile on his lips. 'Are
[012] .' 'You see, my dear Watson,' - he put the magnifying _____ back on the table and began to talk like a teacher ta
[013] the United States through the other side of a looking _____ . As the cheery guide pointed out during a tour of the
[014] ace. The stuccoed two-story penthouses, wrapped with _____ and priced to sell from $2. 75 million to $2. 95 milli
[015] rafters. Skylights, swirling overhead fans and an all- _____ greenhouse extension have added sophistication. Fried
[016] e venom from its fangs, drains the liquid into a shot _____ and downs it as if it were as smooth as rye. With a f
[017] in a new Menotti work. But doing the same for Philip _____ ? 'It's the psychology of the character that really mo
[018] the man seated in his car.' At selected crossroads, _____ -covered markets-a clear vision of today's shopping ma
[019] ed woman in the world, with paparazzi nipping at her _____ slippers. She provided a shot in the arm to the Briti
[020] modern dance, cutting-edge artwork, or perhaps just a _____ of cabernet at a hip new nightspot. But many downtow
4. WORDS
bar
burn
expression
freedom
glass
hang
maybe
rock
suffer
sun
[001] n his arm. 'The Yankees came to Tara, but they didn't _____ the house. Everything is fine. We did well with our c
[002] hich nobody seemed to want. The Yankees were going to _____ them but I got them first. I had ten dollars, and use
[003] e white Klan clothes are pushed down under the floor. _____ them. And there are two - men in the back room. Put t
[004] ot to.' His face was wild. 'We'll just have to let it _____ . There's nothing we can do to stop it.' 'The men -' Bu
[005] thes. On his neck there is-' , A wide red mark like a _____ ?' cried Mr Brownlow. 'Do you know him?' said Nancy w
[006] wall. Some called for ladders; others said they would _____ the house down. 'The water.' cried Sikes. 'The water
[007] from the man with the knife? Trailers didn't usually _____ down at four o'clock in the morning. There was a knoc
[008] st have died quickly and without pain. There were no _____ marks either on his clothes or on his hands. The doct
[009] cedonians in battle, he advised. Instead, they should _____ their own farms and make sure Alexander's army could
[010] would have to go home. They also decided, finally, to _____ all the fields before Alexander reached them, so his
[011] 's friend Ptolemy made a suggestion. Alexander should _____ the palace where they were eating, she said, to punis
[012] from sunset to midnight on Providence's rivers. Some _____ in wrought-iron braziers, others float in baskets. T
[013] or butter on burned skin, and this in fact makes the _____ hotter; or they wrap tape of some kind on the
[014] hotter; or they wrap tape of some kind on the _____ , which ends up pulling the skin off. And the other t
[015] decide first of all how bad it is. If it is a minor _____ , the best thing to do is put the burnt area under the
[016] ops the heat from spreading. However, if it's a bad _____ , what we call a third degree
[017] , what we call a third degree _____ , don't touch it; you really should get for this kind
[018] n't touch it; you really should get for this kind of _____ expert help immediately. Cover the
[019] expert help immediately. Cover the _____ very lightly with something clean like a sheet or a,
[020] pital. The other wrong thing people do is to give the _____ victim drinks, especially alcoholic drinks, which me
5. WORDS
bar
burn
expression
freedom
glass
hang
maybe
rock
suffer
sun
[001] . I am sorry now that she did not. Then suddenly her _____ changed, and she became very calm. 'Oh, I know your
[002] ld me there was no apple pie by mistake? Seeing the _____ on my face, she came over and explained, with a seri
[003] orn'; James Leer's odd insouciance is captured as 'an _____ halfway between pity and disapproval, the way you lo
[004] Britain playing an active role in world affairs. The _____ is often used these days that the country 'punches ab
[005] central concept to creative compositional thought and _____ , a quality that is present in the music of all his s
[006] er pleasure in simplicity and directness, freedom of _____ and lack of artifice, which gives Little Women its at
[007] th and it had its first and most influential American _____ in The Blues Brothers where ex-college - some later t
[008] heroine of the novel called Love, tries to model her _____ on the 'bland, white, motionles s face' of women in
[009] I saw Mrs Jamieson eat three pieces, slowly, with an _____ not unlike a cow's. After tea, the ladies played card
[010] I'll have a good reason to refuse.' I saw Miss Pole's _____ change. You're not going? Oh, Miss Matty, you must go
[011] e away from mine. Suddenly I saw from his delighted _____ that he had reached the heart of his impossible world
[012] ew of Patusan and the dangers involved. I watched the _____ on his face change from tiredness to surprise, intere
[013] a dangerous journey into the unknown. He noticed my _____ , and it seemed to calm him a bit. 'You probably don't
[014] Jim had worn so proudly, fell to the floor. With an _____ of mad pain and anger on his face,4 Doramin stared at
[015] f he's still alive.' 'I suppose you're right. But the _____ on Sofia's face frightened me - when Josef didn't com
[016] us to our coee, I looked at Frances, and I saw the _____ on her face. My heart seemed to go small. I said at l
[017] s came then, and I could not stop them, but I saw the _____ on Lambis's face change as he understood. At that m
[018] on't go yet,' Steve said to me. There was a desperate _____ on his face, and in the end I stayed all night. Mrs
[019] room. 'Have you heard?' His face was white and his _____ was desperate. 'Yes.' 'It happened yesterday. The w
[020] nothing. Victor Briggs was silent, his face without _____ . I went out again to ride Chainmail. 'Don't kill your
6. WORDS
bar
burn
expression
freedom
glass
hang
maybe
rock
suffer
sun
[001] mean for us to live in Atlanta among our own people. _____ we'll have a litde home of our own. Oh, Ashley, do sa
[002] s name was Rafter. He was a hard man in a courtroom, _____ the hardest lawyer that Drake & Sweeney had. Suddenl
[003] sn't looking for an answer. He looked out the window. _____ he was thinking.
[004] he was thinking. _____ he was dreaming.
[005] he was dreaming. _____ he was watching the police out there. Our soup and br
[006] er big companies. The lawsuits continued for years. _____ a hundred lawyers worked on each one, all sending pap
[007] e?" "Because it's mine, and I said no. How's that?" " _____ that's not good enough." He stood, his hands shaking
[008] s?" "Good question. They're a diicult group to count. _____ ten thousand." I thought about that. Then I asked Mor
[009] .' 'I knew savages lived here,' Father said. 'Allie, _____ they can help us!' 'We don't need help.' 'We're dirty
[010] Muldanno killed the senator, but where was the body? _____ there would be some evidence in Memphis.
[011] there would be some evidence in Memphis. _____ Cliord had known something, said something. . . Anot
[012] the whisky bottle. 'Whose are they?' said Trumann. ' _____ the kid's,' said McThune. 'How can we check?' 'I'll ge
[013] he said with a big smile. 'Did you have an accident? _____ I can help you.' The other man didn't smile. 'Road ac
[014] as in pain. 'Well,' said Gill Teal. 'I'm a lawyer and _____ you have a case. Who hit you?' The other man looked
[015] million. 'He's lying,' said Gill Teal. 'Trust me. But _____ we can get more. Are you married? Have you got kids?'
[016] smoke when Cliord arrived. They hid and watched him. _____ they pulled his tube from the tail pipe. We're not su
[017] s.' 'Why Memphis?' 'He was born here,' said McThune. ' _____ he wanted to die where he was born. He left a note,'
[018] t bit either. We found the second pen in the car, so _____ Cliord used it there, but he was too drunk to write c
[019] then shot himself.' Foltrigo's mouth was open again. ' _____ the kid's afraid because Cliord told him something he
[020] 'Let's do this, Mark. Don't tell me where the body is. _____ later, but not now. And let's meet with the FBI and l
7. WORDS
bar
burn
expression
freedom
glass
hang
maybe
rock
suffer
sun
[001] t Ashley and he went with me. We found Wilkerson in a _____ , and I took my knife to him while Ashley held the oth
[002] back to the empty apartment. I didn't want to go to a _____ , either-I'd probably never leave. So I drove. I went
[003] marovsky, would find Zhivago and take him back to the _____ for more drinks. It was easy to see that Zhivago's wo
[004] marovsky's advantage. After one of these trips to the _____ , Zhivago rushed into their car, grabbed Mr Gordon by
[005] reaming "Yi yi yi yi yi!" This is Meow Mix, a lesbian _____ on East Houston Street, at Suffolk Street, which hold
[006] and women arrive an hour early to commandeer tables; _____ business has increased fourfold from the pre-quiz da
[007] is summer with a major renovation of the first floor _____ and restaurant and other minor alterations. During th
[008] nsfer the load of the building to other supports. The _____ will be moved far enough from the dining area so tha
[009] may have a reason for naming its new fondue-and-wine _____ (with alpine motif) after the Greek muse of comedy a
[010] e one who didn't trained in France. Still, the mix of _____ standards and more elaborate dishes isn't the main d
[011] he apparently broadened her education. You can order _____ drinks like Jalapeno Marys as well as a flight of pino
[012] k up an equally suggestive retort, I saw that our lap _____ was completely unlatched. ' Lanza describes the resu
[013] y determine, character. 'To read him on a fashionable _____ or the Biggsville [the simulacrum of Pottsville] cou
[014] th a police station, two post offices, a hospital, a _____ , two sports clubs, a disco, a cinema, and a swimming
[015] to see us off. So we were having a few drinks in the _____ and joking with this friend of mine, Peter, saying,
[016] ourse is 7 o'clock. So we were actually there in the _____ when it went without us. I: Oh so what did you do? J
[017] t begins on Friday night, of course. We maybe go to a _____ for the happy hour, you know, that's when the drinks
[018] h a band. I: Oh. H: Yea. Not, not in a concert, in a _____ - you know bars in America are more like clubs. I: O
[019] ac, such as a TV, video player, three telephones, a _____ that seats twenty, a solar deck, and a swimming pool.
[020] re doing it for charity.' So I went down to the Union _____ , collected pounds 15 in as many minutes. Once I had d
8. WORDS
bar
burn
expression
freedom
glass
hang
maybe
rock
suffer
sun
[001] d a silver tiger helmet with a face guard. The bright _____ shone off his helmet as he rode around the arena with
[002] ded by guards. Commodus raised his sword high and the _____ shone off it. Maximus slowly bent down and picked up
[003] diiculty. The arena seemed to be turning around. The _____ danced off the Emperor's armor and blinded him. He he
[004] crowd loved a winner. Maximus almost fell again. The _____ was bright, very bright. And then suddenly, beyond al
[005] right. And then suddenly, beyond all this, he saw the _____ shining on a pink wall... He saw a gate in the wall..
[006] body to tell him what to do again. That evening, the _____ had gone when Scarlett reached the bend in the road.
[007] from the bank and lay down on the warm ground in the _____ . What did it feel like, I wondered, to be as strong a
[008] ing bad. It was something strong and bright, like the _____ , and did not change. All the Viscounts whose names I
[009] shadow of the trees, my thoughts became brighter. The _____ was warm and kind and seemed to forgive Marian. Perha
[010] ve them. The cloud was moving very slowly towards the _____ . Soon it would reach the
[011] . Soon it would reach the _____ , and then. . . . There was a noise behind me. Ted Bur
[012] as grey. That was one reason why I felt strange. The _____ seemed to have gone, and it was like losing a dear fr
[013] a few days later, he woke Jerry and me up before the _____ was up. 'We're all ready,' he said. 'I've been up for
[014] d on. Up here the trees were thinner and burnt by the _____ . It was very hot, and I could hear the Zambus breathi
[015] d start again, and now the ice was even smaller. The _____ was losing its heat, and the mosquitoes came out. Jer
[016] s Stranger Spring passed quickly and summer came. The _____ shone. Nature was growing, full of life and energy. O
[017] and hit her again. Chapter 18 Sikes Escapes As the _____ came up over the city, Sikes tried to clean the blood
[018] Still standing at the window, he thought, 'My bright _____ has gone down. My life has finished.' Over the next f
[019] his father to wait. He turned the horse towards the _____ , so it could not see its own shadow. It immediately b
[020] eir chosen battle ground and did not march before the _____ came up. The Macedonians crossed the river in the ea
9. WORDS
bar
burn
expression
freedom
glass
hang
maybe
rock
suffer
sun
[001] h death is certain, it's also very possible you will _____ a disability during your working life. Statistics ind
[002] alking about. And the tragedy is that the people who _____ first are the deprived people, the people who are li
[003] t 46. One in four Third World children can expect to _____ malnutrition. In developing countries nearly three q
[004] say. I: And is it true that children are the ones who _____ most? JS: Oh yes, they
[005] most? JS: Oh yes, they _____ more than we care to realize. Parents need to talk
[006] s to aches and serious pain, or if you find that you _____ from deep tiredness that you cannot shake off, then
[007] e to his imagination. All good writers, Tripp notes, ' _____ , inevitably, the quintessential fate of their charact
[008] ies, and was determined that no student of his should _____ similarly; in fact Lambert was one of the first in Br
10. WORDS
bar
burn
expression
freedom
glass
hang
maybe
rock
suffer
sun
[001] ling a negro who insulted a white woman, and they may _____ him!' 'How - how long will he be in prison?' asked Sc
[002] are very angry about it, but I don't believe they'll _____ Captain Butler because they think he knows where the
[003] 'I'm so frightened for you, Rhett. They won't really _____ you, will they?' He put his hand on hers. 'Will you b
[004] o talk sweetly to him. 'You're too clever to let them _____ you,' she said. 'You'll find a way to get out, and wh
[005] went prettily red again. 'Oh, Rhett, I'll die if they _____ you. I -' She stopped and looked down. 'Scarlett, y
[006] ,' he said. 'Thank you,' she said, 'but they may not _____ you until it's too late to pay the taxes!' ' Chapter
[007] st all go - somewhere?' she thought. 'Oh, I hope they _____ Rhett Butler!' She heard the sound of a carriage and
[008] ou.' 'Oh, you are the most -! What a pity they didn't _____ you!' 'There are others who share your opinion,' he s
[009] w out the lighted candle Frank was holding. 'They'll _____ me if they catch me!' Tony was saying. 'I'm going to
[010] Someone could rape or kill her, and the Yankees would _____ anyone who tried to punish the criminal. She didn't w
[011] Bumble cried. 'I cannot believe it. One day they will _____ the boy.' He took Oliver away and shut him in a dark
[012] e held his handkerchief. One young man was anxious to _____ up his hat for him. Another put his hands in Oliver's
[013] er. 'I liked it.' 'Well,' said the old lady, 'we will _____ it up again when you are better.' Oliver soon grew st
[014] d escaped up the chimney,' said Charley. 'They will _____ Fagin, and Sikes too when they get him,' said Toby in
[015] e cards saying simply "Stolen on March 18, 1990" that _____ on several blank walls of the Isabella Stewart Gardne
[016] us inhabitant. None of the rooms provided a place to _____ your clothes, except one room we looked at, that had
[017] any. If the caller will not give his name and number, _____ up at once - he could be trying to find out if you a
[018] I see. OK, I'll call back at one o'clock. I have to _____ up now. Tell her Bob called. Goodbye. *** A: Hi -
[019] I see. Well, just undress down to your waist- you can _____ your shirt on the hook here - and stand over here ag
[020] write cheques and I couldn't cook. Now I've got the _____ of it. I do a lot of Italian food, especially spaghet