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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] the editor asked, "What else can Virginia do than to _____ the men who have defied her laws, organized treason,
[002] if his mouth watered" for his victim, lets his hands _____ "loose and heavy at his sides", and Pip observes him
[003] He thought: Only in my heart can I make the world _____ together. ## Adam rose from the crouch necessary t
[004] said. "I will be expecting them". He was about to _____ up the phone, but a note of hesitancy in the secreta
[005] Then I shut off the device again. She wanted to _____ around while I was eating. "Don't you think it's sel
[006] the street, and they better send a patrol car. Then _____ up fast and come walking on down to the Perrin addre
[007] out to question the people I know in the places they _____ around, and"- "Let's not push our patience beyond
[008] Red had a show at Gloucester, Handley would hurry to _____ his pictures in Rockport. You may say this has littl
[009] se Feds. The rest of us can fort up in the house and _____ on until you get back. You're the one that's taking
[010] a hurricane in Carolina. He hollered hoarsely, " _____ on"! and goaded the oxen as he yelled. He wanted to
[011] ly had he no canteen, but he lacked even the belt to _____ one on. "You came well equipped to die". Some o
[012] hing while she lugged the clothes out to the yard to _____ them up while the sun was still shining. When she ca
[013] with me so they wouldn't feel lonely, and we used to _____ a sign on the door of the Brush-off reading OUT TO W
[014] down on his knees and scrub the kitchen floor, then _____ up her dresses, pick up her stockings, make the bed
[015] at was where the pegboard would go on which he would _____ his hand tools. In front of it would be his workbenc
[016] he was about. Then at least he would have a place to _____ his tools and something to work on. After that every
[017] stool with a slat from a Venetian blind that used to _____ in the pre-war Reichstag. In this manner, he seeks t
[018] t a backrest. Sitting relaxed, but letting the arms _____ down, increased the internal force to nearly 500 N.
[019] istinctly over a small backrest and letting the arms _____ down reduced the internal compression forces to appr
[020] business to create. Just get a business license and _____ your shingle, and you're a sole proprietor. The fol
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[001] techniques lead but to one of two possible modes of _____ , if they lead to a market committment at all. In the
[002] use the method of difference. It removes our present _____ and shows that the badness we meant would not be aff
[003] ation were not yet sufficiently crystallized to find _____ , nor could the simple economic and social foundation
[004] with that dreary solemnity which is the only mode of _____ their authors are capable of. Secondly, to find a le
[005] suspicion that alienation may be little more than an _____ of the malaise of the intellectual, who, rejected by
[006] nique vitality of the chorus is its great variety in _____ . It rarely speaks as a unit. Even in its most conven
[007] important and a few more unimportant exceptions, no _____ can be deemed le mot juste for its context, because
[008] its context, because each was very probably the only _____ that long-established practice and ease of rapid rec
[009] uge stainless-steel appointments of the room with an _____ of proprietorship. Teachers- men who wore brown s
[010] ht be. Now the face was his own. He wondered what _____ , as he made that gesture, was on his face. He wonder
[011] pas expressed no curiosity over the case, offered no _____ of sympathy, made no move to escort McFeeley to the
[012] resurrected, he was at this moment dead indeed, the _____ on his face reflecting what he had gone through on t
[013] -dimensional figure in clay. Here he would have free _____ because the material could be moved to distort forms
[014] Brown eyes, eyebrow mustache. Oval face without an _____ in the world. We didn't have time to speak before
[015] her face, and laughed as though it were the funniest _____ he had ever seen. He kept on laughing until she star
[016] her and she stood still, waiting there for what his _____ indicated would be a serious word of farewell. He lo
[017] itual. Fortunately, gender was inflected, though the _____ of it would be difficult for anybody not born in Sid
[018] s sparse beard giving his face a pathetic, woebegone _____ . There was more to this than Jones had told him.
[019] an made him ashamed of himself. When he saw the _____ in her eyes, he knew he couldn't send them on. She s
[020] At the sight of Sally's happy face and carefree _____ , Harmony's dark, brooding eyes quickly brightened
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[001] rospects for an all-Negro school population. West of _____ Creek Park is still monolithically white and is in f
[002] of the Neversink and the Delaware, was the Tri-State _____ , from which Stevie could spy New Jersey and Pennsylv
[003] e stopped. He strained to hear. He heard the words: " _____ of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee! L
[004] bay the Palisades were heavy in green timber; their _____ paths led down to the Hudson. Below in the open bay
[005] ait any longer. Hub, you stick by the stage door. If _____ shows up during the number- or you hear anything- gi
[006] for, but"- Andy nodded dully. "It doesn't matter, _____ . We've done our part". He clutched that knowled
[007] the forward hatch where he picked up the anchor. The _____ and roll music coming from the radio station suddenl
[008] preoccupied to cook, much less be secretaries. Even _____ -steady Anne- Hell, Anne was the worst! Absent- minde
[009] ad tried to write a letter. His handwriting was on a _____ . Mercer read it, and so had a few of the others, but
[010] Gavin sank down again into his chair and began to _____ . He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left
[011] ing of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to _____ to death on the porch of the Splendide. It was the o
[012] the moonlight almost naked and slugging a man with a _____ "? He kept going. He wanted no more sentimental sc
[013] turned and raced across the parade ground toward the _____ house. Powder flame gushed beneath the wagon. The
[014] million dollars' of gold a month. A million tons of _____ and soil and brush. The monitors ran twenty-four
[015] Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant _____ was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after th
[016] ignal. Hez looked up at the high face of Emigrant _____ , official signboard for the Raft River turnoff, and
[017] exactly. Just see it". Benson grinned and flipped a _____ with his thumb like a marble. "Nope, just you, al
[018] ing one of the ranchers, named Ed Dunn, who lived at _____ Fort. On a bitterly cold day in January, 1895, ac
[019] Tilghman left the township of Guthrie and headed for _____ Fort and Dunn's ranch. It was snowing hard when they
[020] parasol, if only to shade Doaty's flowers. A small, _____ -carved angel watched her from a nearby tomb, the onl
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[001] thus insuring for themselves individually an optimal _____ of action to maintain the "flexibility of alignment"
[002] his search was merely for rules that might limit his _____ of action. To appreciate this development, we mus
[003] democratic institutions of government and economic _____ , was master of his destiny. The theory did not requi
[004] as analyzed in contractual terms; trade was based on _____ of contract, and money was lent and borrowed on cont
[005] illingness to die in aid of the great cause of human _____ , we still recognize the qualities of a noble nature
[006] ck and the car gave the manufacturer a new degree of _____ in selecting his plant site. Until internal combusti
[007] om totalitarian terror in order to live in dignified _____ . As artists we feel the same obligation, as do other
[008] atic. "Precious and I allow each other absolute _____ . We are above being jealous. He's used to me bringin
[009] e crowded and unclean vessel that would carry him to _____ . He stalked into the water and fell heavily over the
[010] Mary Jane believed it was in his power to teach her: _____ from the tedium of needs such as hotels, the meaning
[011] . It was our hope to educate him and to give him his _____ when the right time came, for he was a bright and fr
[012] ny children, the first thing they knew of Israel and _____ was your mother. Sometimes it was dangerous for her"
[013] e with adults. There was the freshness of color, the _____ of perception, the lack of self- consciousness, bu
[014] an look to any one of them for an enlargement of his _____ ? It was all too wearying. Look somewhere else. But w
[015] the nuclear family has brought with it much greater _____ and personal mobility for the individual. In the ext
[016] ts want to create an imposed social order. We are the _____ fighters. Let's liberate our roads! After circuma
[017] y's Observer of Toms River, said that the degree of _____ depended on the employer. "At The Ledger, " he said,
[018] work they did would be as different from slavery as _____ was supposed to be: They negotiated with white emplo
[019] demands made by white male employers. In To 'Joy My _____ , historian Tera W. Hunter looks at how black working
[020] w black working- class women defined and experienced _____ between the Civil War and the World War I-era 'Great
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[001] hat'll put the place back to normal. Normal, by God. _____ it's a good thing it happened.
[002] it's a good thing it happened. _____ they'll stop it now, once for all. Clean the place u
[003] e thing: for the bastards what done it to be nailed. _____ they already got them. He was again tingling with pl
[004] 'm awful sorry about what's happened", Selena said. " _____ today'll be a good-news day". She charged off to the
[005] people go swimming in Paris? That boat in the river, _____ ". "What boat"? "There's a big boat anchored
[006] it"? "I don't know. I wish I did. The tweed coat, _____ . The thing about Eugene is that he's very proud".
[007] . I don't know if I can get you into the inner camp. _____ yes,
[008] yes, _____ no, but you can observe everything from the roof of
[009] stard I found myself having a fellowfeeling for him. _____ he felt the same way. I never felt such a lowdown ho
[010] ld give up some of his whisky to a slit of a kid and _____ lose one of his hiding places in the bargain. That w
[011] n her chin where he'd cut her with a boot cleat, and _____ she saw him heaving it again, the dirty sock popping
[012] h a while. The older men would be there at noon, and _____ rest for a time before they took their guns off to t
[013] "We're going after ice", Howard said, "and thought _____ you'd go along and keep us company". There was re
[014] is their sickness. You've not seemed like them, but _____ you are. You've treated your stay here like a big jo
[015] on in the Northeast section"? "A lady. That is, _____ not too much of a lady. At least, I want to find out
[016] here"? "A stake-out, I suppose. On Felice Perrin. _____ with specific orders to see that I don't make contac
[017] e would hold me till they check clear back home, and _____ more than that. They would have to. By then they cou
[018] ement here in the county supervisor's office". " _____ the society editor would remember a good-looking out
[019] Denny's- and Jackie's- kinda hangin' fire, ain't it, _____ you've been kinda worryin' over that. And can't say
[020] eful. Two weeks, a month, we talk it over again, and _____ if nothing happens meanwhile to say the cops know th
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[001] . There the objective sat, brooding over all. Gouge, _____ , blast, insult it as they would, could anyone really
[002] ive that Voltaire is almost convinced that he should _____ his books, too. But while the two men are riding int
[003] th grandiose dreams of capital gain and tax money to _____ could have put into rehearsal. No one, not even the
[004] y, making an effort to control her anger. "You could _____ down this whole mountainside with a fire that size.
[005] said. "I'm telling you. That fire's too big. Let it _____ down. And make sure it's out when you leave in the m
[006] second twitched his shirtsleeve, and he felt a brief _____ on his upper arm. Another snarled close overhead.
[007] nd soaked with dirt"! He darkened under his heavy _____ . His blue eyes sought the shimmering sea of haze ahe
[008] d wish it would spring a leak or blow to hell up and _____ and nothing like that would happen. Or you could hop
[009] est oil and fitted with a wick made of asbestos might _____ forever. Similar ideas were voiced by Hero of Alexan
[010] rom sunset to midnight on Providence's rivers. Some _____ in wrought-iron braziers, others float in baskets. T
[011] material is 25 percent cheaper than wood. It doesn't _____ and termites can't eat it. This innovation is not li
[012] ial use for the same product is as artificial skin for _____ patients. This production is taking place in a "facto
[013] tually draw the satellite closer to earth and it would _____ up upon entering the atmosphere. (There are hundreds
[014] mination, he didn't tinker with candles to make them _____ better. Instead, he created something brilliantly new:
[015] go through the pain to understand. You experience the _____ , the heat, and even the pain -- but without the dama
[016] to start with, and with current VGA and better kit, _____ -in is a thing o problem shareholders face is that whi
[017] ity Generating Board's stations, warned: "We plan to _____ a wider range of fuels from a wider range of sources
[018] h play-off against Kite, hit a wedge into the Swilken _____ which runs across the front of the green. Yesterday
[019] it was not yet found. The wood, being very dry, would _____ rapidly; it was therefore necessary to carry to the
[020] explosion, for, simply lighted, this substance would _____ without exploding. Cyrus Harding could certainly hav
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[001] the new thruways go up their banks are lined by neat _____ and metal and colored brick light industry. The driv
[002] d with a sale which would have been made even if its _____ doors had never opened. Accounting procedures which
[003] me point in their histories. Libyan Desert silica- _____ , another natural
[004] , another natural _____ , is composed of nearly pure silica and has the same
[005] content, however, has been enhanced five-fold. This _____ is probably formed from Libyan Desert sands by comet
[006] losion craters, and recent craters containing impact _____ have all been produced by metallic meteorites with t
[007] , Western Sahara Desert. This crater contains impact _____ with no metallic inclusions and no meteoritic materi
[008] posited on such substrates as iron and other metals, _____ , wood, and plastic surfaces. The measurement of topc
[009] n be satisfied, e.g., with **f and **f or equivalent _____ combinations. A sufficiently good approximation f
[010] be reduced to 4.6 percent by means of a (very thin) _____ layer of index 1.5. Hence, the **f factor for the ou
[011] t must be remembered that the fiber plates replace a _____ window and a (mica) membrane, in addition to an opti
[012] s; the pattern of the Oriental rug, the delicate cut- _____ chandelier. He said to the Secretary, "I understa
[013] d so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a _____ of water, holding it up to the box, high above her h
[014] began to weep. Laura Keene brushed by him with the _____ of water. The crowd began to move. In Washington Cit
[015] mahogany with criss-crossed brass wire instead of _____ panes in the doors. The daybed Eugene had slept in,
[016] you. You'll find an old transit in the basement. The _____ is out of it, but that won't matter. It looks pretty
[017] ly to the bedroom. Lord Byron poured himself another _____ of wine and held it up to the candle flame admiring
[018] dias. Here and there she stayed to visit and drink a _____ of sherry. The contributions were ahead of what she
[019] ays felt that he could handle the Irish. There was a _____ pane in the front door, and through this he could se
[020] "And who is this"? he asked, when she passed him a _____ . "Oh that's Linda Kay", Mama Albright said fondly
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[001] SAT over his second whisky-on-the-rocks in a little _____ next to the funeral parlor on Pennsylvania Avenue. A
[002] tobacco smoke, and Italian cooking. Hanging over the _____ was an oil painting of a nude Al had accepted from a
[003] and Irvin Moll were sipping coffee at the breakfast _____ . Both had been up since 7:00- Irv on the early-morni
[004] of the Santa Luisa Register, resting on the kitchen _____ . KIDNAPER SPURNS RANSOM; AMY STILL MISSING. Once, An
[005] man had hung up. I finally went downstairs to the _____ off the main lobby where most of the cast were drown
[006] is about to buy a drink". I laid a tenspot on the _____ and motioned to the bartender to serve a round. He h
[007] Fifth Street, and should allow him to make Scotty's _____ by midnight. He said with satisfaction, "That's fine
[008] nd on his own surmises. "I want to be in Scotty's _____ at midnight when Marsha makes her phone call there",
[009] pen restaurant. He was standing at the end of the _____ enjoying a slug of cognac when Rourke came in six or
[010] The reporter nodded as he moved up beside him at the _____ . Shayne told the bartender, "Bourbon and water", and
[011] 's drink and Shayne laid a twenty-dollar bill on the _____ . He said in a low voice, "I've got a date with a lad
[012] Rourke had parked his coupe directly in front of the _____ headed south. He walked over to the right-hand door,
[013] ent toward her dowry. A taxi took him back to the _____ and grill where he had left his car, and a few minut
[014] o it ring ten times before he hung up. He called the _____ and grill where he had picked Burton up that afterno
[015] ery tight, but he knew where he was. It was the same _____ , and it was two weeks later- Saturday night, when he
[016] e going to be saddled from now on with a creep for a _____ -buddy? He'd have to start going to some of the other
[017] all Ed Dow or Dutch Renfro or any of the rest of the _____ B crew. Morgan watched the two figures for a time,
[018] being paid them. "Gyp'll be holdin' forth in some _____ if he's here at all", Cobb declared, glancing along
[019] spot. Reaching the porch rail beyond view of the _____ windows, he feverishly scanned the busy street below
[020] murmured with their heads together at the end of the _____ , while the sleek-headed bartender absently polished
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[001] y: "It was a bad thing that the little animal should _____ so". The positivist tells us that when we say this
[002] nimal did not in fact fall into the trap and did not _____ at all, but that we mistakenly believe it did, and s
[003] extreme penalty, no man, however criminal, ought to _____ the penalty without a fairer trial. The editor's mai
[004] are denied all rights ... and is this day doomed to _____ death for his efforts in behalf of those who have no
[005] telling picture of the common people, those who must _____ the effects of their rulers' struggle for power with
[006] ensifiers are capable of achieving high-gain values; _____ , however, from an inherently low resolution. Image i
[007] in Shakespeare's poem. And while her Adonis did not _____ from inexperience, satiety might well be an equal ha
[008] o die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not _____ for it: the murder would go unpunished. He, McBride,
[009] ly unwire the truck door, and if I escaped, he might _____ . The car was approaching fast. On the truck bed t
[010] the dread that moved in her. When at last she could _____ the insult no longer, nor face the girl's scorn, she
[011] h death is certain, it's also very possible you will _____ a disability during your working life. Statistics ind
[012] about 40 percent of that continent's population, will _____ or die as a result of water- related troubles in the
[013] ament ceased to talk for 12 months, the country would _____ no inconvenience, and many people would probably be g
[014] s low-priced fashion for younger women seemed not to _____ greatly from the effects of higher mortgages. Pre-tax
[015] ortured and made to sign confessions. The girls also _____ sexual exploitation by police. Often they're made to
[016] ic films in the late 1960s. Mr Kluge also appears to _____ from anglophilia. His Virginia estate includes an 850-
[017] self to be a "church within socialism". Members still _____ for their faith, for instance, by being denied univer
[018] were banned from touring for three years. Neath could _____ a similar fate, but any punishment will be linked to
[019] derstudy for the Polish expeditionshould Bryan Robson _____ a relapse, writes Neil Morton. The midfielder struck
[020] ix years ago. Some predict bowls will be the next to _____ . It is the sports which can get it wrong," Pascoe war