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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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2. WORDS
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[001] transvestitism involved- the fat man as girl and as _____ , as coquette pretending to be a
[002] , as coquette pretending to be a _____ - touches for a moment horrifyingly upon the secret s
[003] f the fat man dressed up as a whore dressing up as a _____ ; the epiphany of that quivering flesh; the bringing
[004] ng ship. By now she was sure she was going to have a _____ , deciding it would be born in India or Burma that
[005] a Congregationalist, he had been baptized as a tiny _____ in the usual manner by having a few drops of water s
[006] "Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride", "Have You Got Any Castles, _____ ?", and "Too Marvelous for Words" (all with Richard W
[007] epers Creepers", and "You Must Have Been a Beautiful _____ ". Mercer's lyrics are characterized by an unerring e
[008] men, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, _____ carriages- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without
[009] was still elated over his afternoon visit downtown. " _____ , I saw a lot of old friends I hadn't seen in a long
[010] and acceptance of Mrs. B.'s anger against the second _____ soon dissipated her fears of annihilation. Abreactio
[011] igent use of nursing care, accompaniment to the well- _____ clinic for medical advice on the twins' feeding prob
[012] ack to the quarters to spare Kate remembrance of the _____ 's death. Juanita drooped about the place, wearing
[013] haunted, brooding look, which Kate attributed to the _____ 's death, until the day a letter came for her address
[014] other wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's _____ and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South "And
[015] , and to tell you how sorry I was to hear about your _____ . I wish our doctor could have saved her". "It w
[016] he would say to him in the morning, this big foolish _____ of a son. There were times now, like this, when she
[017] with her eyes on her ice cream, "I'm going to have a _____ , Francis Xavier's
[018] , Francis Xavier's _____ , my own husband's
[019] , my own husband's _____ ". My first thought was how had it happened so soo
[020] dn't". #CHAPTER 9# WINTER CAME, and with it Mary's _____ - a boy as she had wished. William, he was called, in
[021] da Kay", Mama Albright said fondly. "She married our _____ boy, Bobby Joe, this summer". "Let's see", Cousin
[022] . I'm going to become a good nurse, and I've got two _____ brothers that are going to have college if I have to
[023] Grosse swore now. "Dammit all, Vince. I ain't no _____ sitter". Vince shouted finally, "Get her over to
[024] n, hard working. He strong as a bull but gentle as a _____ . Even if he angry, Tim wouldn't hurt a woman. He nev
[025] o-nosed man answered for him, "I think he has a nice _____ head, but it isn't big enough for you to take yet".
3. WORDS
advise
baby
curious
double
empty
evil
opposite
prefer
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[001] e President and the First Lady have deputized him to _____ on matters ranging from the furnishing of the White
[002] sed what was obviously in their minds. "Would you _____ us to act the same way? You might have failed. I thi
[003] ndrus phoned his secretary to cancel his work and to _____ the network to get a substitute director for his cur
[004] dd, "Just kidding, natch". Thornburg popped in to _____ , "Andy, Skolman's sending up smoke signals. You abou
[005] . Meeker hadn't struck him as ready to seek anyone's _____ , least of all Garth's. With her sharp tongue she'd h
[006] tion requirements of the foreign entity's country and _____ the cleared contractor of the potential threat, if an
[007] rsonal and political lives of party contributors, and _____ him on how much money to ask for. Afterward are excer
[008] l Group by Australian Mutual Provident. The OFT will _____ the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on whe
[009] e latest incumbent, is retaining his silken skills to _____ on "industrial and financial affairs" and the Airbus
[010] or the display of the flag. It was my desire to _____ the membership of the Legion that the majority of po
[011] The Wall, awkwardly based on the John Hersey novel; _____ and Consent, lively but shallow theater drawn from t
[012] d by the vice- president- Engineering, counsel and _____ divisional managers and chief engineers on product p
[013] do now. So in closing, fellow retired members, I _____ you to make the most of each day, enjoy each one to
[014] ride? Gynecologists and marriage manuals began to _____ that the bride should consult a physician before mar
[015] e President and the First Lady have deputized him to _____ on matters ranging from the furnishing of the White
[016] sed what was obviously in their minds. "Would you _____ us to act the same way? You might have failed. I thi
[017] ndrus phoned his secretary to cancel his work and to _____ the network to get a substitute director for his cur
[018] dd, "Just kidding, natch". Thornburg popped in to _____ , "Andy, Skolman's sending up smoke signals. You abou
[019] . Meeker hadn't struck him as ready to seek anyone's _____ , least of all Garth's. With her sharp tongue she'd h
4. WORDS
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baby
curious
double
empty
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opposite
prefer
retire
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[001] e'uns all'". In a similar vein, but writing from the _____ side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Vo
[002] the average claret is notably longer-lived than its _____ number, red Burgundy. Some clarets do not come into
[003] ne senses a great feeling of life and movement. _____ is the Palazzo Mattei, one of Rome's oldest palaces,
[004] he Via di S. Agnese in Agone, next to the church and _____ the center of the square, then turn right after abou
[005] Now return to the Piazza Navona and leave it on the _____ side by the Corsia Agonale; in a moment cross the Co
[006] nlimited use of economic pressures for diametrically _____ causes could devastate the pre- conditions of any
[007] r that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at _____ poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the
[008] f 1787-89 expressed, as clearly as language can, the _____ concept, that they were acting directly as citizens.
[009] minence of some natural disaster. In child care, the _____ extreme prevails; procedures change rapidly and pare
[010] beside the Madeleine and across to a sidewalk cafe _____ that church. The conversation that ensued may have b
[011] mess be admitted, because it appears to be the very _____ of form and therefore destructive of the very thing
[012] wish and turn away", and then stared rigidly in the _____ direction until the sound of the horses' feet return
[013] d that by frost in the ground or the roots of trees. _____ every gate was a hitching post or a stone carriage-s
[014] on: the private eye is in danger of turning into his _____ . ## IT IS the growing contradiction between indivi
[015] g to other pursuits. His successors have adopted the _____ alternative. In order to save the mystery story, the
[016] one fancies one feels, what one feels in fact is the _____ . Well, normally abnormal or normally normal, neuroti
[017] the law required the issuance of the writ, took the _____ view, for which the Queen never forgave him. Accordi
[018] san. There, along the east bank of the Southern Bug, _____ the hamlet of Zhitzhakli a few miles north of the Bl
[019] , or Pawcatuck, Connecticut, on the Pawcatuck River, _____ Westerly, Rhode Island. Up to now, Gorton had bee
[020] ns. If Krutch is correct, tragedy may have quite the _____ effect. It may allay our passions and so restore the
[021] as, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on _____ sides- for fear that he might seem to be favoring th
[022] ks. Lilly Banks and I became friends. She was the _____ of everything she should have been- a positive pole
[023] t made no difference that most evidence points to an _____ conclusion. For Adams had made up his mind before al
[024] e. Obviously, if colloidal particles bear charges of _____ sign or, if one kind is charged and the other kind i
[025] e very strongly attracted to a surface exhibiting an _____ charge. In addition, dirt particles can be held onto
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[001] one-horse girls. She is a regular stub and twister, _____ geered. ... She is well-educated and refined, all wi
[002] disaster to business, tolerated O'Banion's impudent _____ -crossing. They had suffered, in sulky silence, the s
[003] graduate work of a more demanding nature. A kind of _____ standard exists here for Jewish boys and girls as it
[004] tles, slowly in Magnums- and slower yet in Tregnums, _____ Magnums, Jeroboams, Methuselahs, and Imperiales, res
[005] nters to mature 'em into prime beef were said to be " _____ wintered". Cattle brought into a range from a dis
[006] ion both premarital chastity as the "ideal", and the _____ standard holding females primarily responsible for
[007] crasher, and the patriot, of the rented tails, the _____ cross, and the tired Lothario. Into its chancerie
[008] arried the second announcement of the candidacy. The _____ editorial on two aspects of "The U. S. Spirit" was
[009] frieze, with a flying figure and a fallen figure; a " _____ -Figure", which went to the Chicago Art Institute, an
[010] with two of his officers, services were held in the _____ cabin. Sometimes a ship would be sighted and the Car
[011] n- minus compulsive rebellion. They even accept the " _____ standard" of sex morality in a
[012] standard" of sex morality in a _____ sense, i.e., both sexes agree that standards for men
[013] roducts Association, Washington, D.C. _ABOVEGROUND _____ -WALL SHELTER_ An outdoor, aboveground fallout she
[014] also may be built with concrete blocks. (See fig. 9, _____ -wall shelter.) Most people would have to hire a cont
[015] 8 inches of pit-run gravel. The materials for a _____ -wall shelter would cost about $700. Contractors' cha
[016] o increase comfort. A blower is essential for the _____ -wall shelter and for the underground shelters. It sh
[017] in the f-plane, say **f, the function **f is either _____ -valued or has no values defined, except at the tange
[018] ghborhood **f. In the third category the function is _____ -valued in this interval. The same remarks apply to a
[019] were still being processed in 1959. It is planned to _____ the number of teams and to make use of improved eq
[020] generally be on the complement very friendly; in the _____ sentence the smaller the town, the friendlier the pe
[021] TYPES OF FULLY DISTRIBUTED COST ANALYSIS# _1. THE _____ -STEP TYPE_ Despite an ambiguity due to its failur
[022] and mere total-cost distribution. The first, or _____ -step, type might also be called the "railroad type"
[023] ch belong to the single-step type rather than to the _____ -step type. In the first subtype, the analyst (fol
[024] optical systems. It is felt that fiber-coupled _____ - (and multi-) stage image intensifiers will gain con
[025] erations, constructional details of a fiber-coupled, _____ -stage X-ray image intensifier will be discussed. Mea
6. WORDS
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opposite
prefer
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[001] of the quietness. After his passage, the street was _____ again. The sun moved slant-wise across the sky and d
[002] ". The "reality" to which they respond is rationally _____ and their art is an imitation of the inescapable pow
[003] of the inescapable powerfulness of this unknown and _____ world. Their artistic rationale is given to the witn
[004] ity and indifference of man or else to dissolve into _____ spaces and overwhelming mystery. The image of God
[005] band and friends. Running across the deck, which was _____ now that the livestock had been killed and eaten, th
[006] s: "One of the things which makes our lives drab and _____ and which leaves us, at the end of the day, fatigued
[007] ral meaning here to be the contrast between the drab _____ quality of life without literature and a life enrich
[008] rged out onto the streets of Strasbourg, overturning _____ streetcars, marking up store fronts, and shouting im
[009] his reconnaissanace the next morning, found the town _____ , accepted the surrender of the mayor and occupied th
[010] g, or which now gives one a glimpse of the bleak and _____ expanse of man's despair; and which, more often than
[011] y absent, the remark now expresses nothing. It is as _____ as the word "Hurrah" would be when there was no enth
[012] gini had used up all the sketches thirty-six feet of _____ frieze were left over. A blank undecorated void, pla
[013] work stopped. One is led to speculate as to why the _____ space was there, left for our century to finish. Cos
[014] such a time that the wheel has become substantially _____ of soap and water at the end of the time shown in Co
[015] such a time that the wheel has become substantially _____ of water at the end of the sum of the times shown in
[016] such a time that the wheel has become substantially _____ of water at the end of the sum of the times shown in
[017] hey were drugged with boredom. The stage had been _____ , except for Harry Hawk, doing his star monologue. Th
[018] for gallantry at Antietam. The street was again _____ . The drizzle was slacking off now, but the light was
[019] manded out loud. He looked wildly around, at the now _____ street, at the mud, at the rain. "Oh, what's the mat
[020] to keep Juanita upstairs in the nurse's room off the _____ nursery, although the girl tried to insist on moving
[021] nd guests remembered, their minds grew numb and then _____ of images. They slept- Mynheer with a marvelously hi
[022] could see a portion of the ghetto wall. He found an _____ bench, opened a newspaper, and stretched his legs be
[023] rounded hips. For a moment she held her face to the _____ doorway; then she snorted and groped for her fork.
[024] oom drew itself in and became densest at the table's _____ chairs, giving her the frequent illusion that she di
[025] f returning, sensing some kind of opportunity in the _____ building. There is a death in all partings, she knew
7. WORDS
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baby
curious
double
empty
evil
opposite
prefer
retire
sport
[001] irst reaction upon hearing of Lumumba's death. I was _____ about the impact of this political assassination on
[002] - has- captured the popular imagination there. I was _____ to know if Lumumba's death, which is surely among th
[003] ore than the usual, well-meaning rhetoric. And I was _____ about the African reaction. However, the chaos on
[004] l. Their old errors of judgment were equated, in the _____ logic of the time, with present treasonous intent. T
[005] omenal modernization that is so disappointing to the _____ Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little
[006] incongruous objects are linked together through the _____ associations of the subconscious. The resulting pict
[007] tual and celebration which we still recognize. It is _____ that even centuries of repetition of the yearly cycl
[008] to be settled by the work itself. Nevertheless I was _____ . My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before t
[009] umber of characteristic elements and makes of them a _____ , riddling compound obscurely but centrally significa
[010] f public morals, a servant of society. It is this _____ blend of rugged individualism and public service whi
[011] society which he serves bores him to tears. The _____ relationship between Holmes and Scotland Yard provid
[012] study of literature contributes to this control in a _____ way. William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to
[013] annoying situation in which I was placed by W. M.'s _____ methods of handling me. He never let me know that my
[014] ion in a magazine of the famous Howe sewing machine. _____ as to what made it work, he built a crude model of i
[015] of the incidentals, the accidents of painting. It is _____ that at its best, the work of this school of paintin
[016] you about your hands"? "Oh, the French are a very _____ people", Pierre had laughed. "They are also honest s
[017] s young man had so little time to learn he had to be _____ ; he had to find out. The Secretary did not tell him
[018] ed here and had become a Christian. Rector was often _____ ; often tempted to ask questions but he never did. If
[019] I may be a half hour. The soldier answered in a _____ , muffled voice, his lips barely moving. Watson turne
[020] 'd been. She went downstairs and received another _____ shock, for when Glendora flapped into the dining roo
[021] ngs and goings. There was, furthermore, the crowd of _____ onlookers gathered in the street and a couple more c
[022] ss. You shoulder your way through the cluster of the _____ and you barge up to the cop on the door. You identif
[023] procured somewhere. They succeeded in eluding the _____ at the hotel, but there was no chance of avoiding th
[024] e man opened his mouth, but no words came. Only that _____ , animal grunting Alec had heard during their fight.
[025] she worked she absentmindedly crooned, producing a _____ sound. Shell people used their own vocal cords and d
8. WORDS
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evil
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[001] him barefoot from village to village, as evidence of _____ American intervention. Although we enjoyed our ro
[002] questionable justification. Action located where the _____ is concentrated will prove most decisive and is most
[003] lt only his own organic needs and go beyond good and _____ . He will not curb his instinctual desires but releas
[004] age, however, Aristotle no longer worries about the _____ influence of comedies. In Aristotle's analysis of
[005] really means by his theory of catharsis is that our _____ passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual tha
[006] hly bad business. Aroused by what they considered an _____ influence, some members of the clergy, joined by cit
[007] sfortune, fear, frustration, uncertainty, suffering, _____ , and danger. Religion usually also includes a princi
[008] . The pain of the rabbit was not itself bad; nothing _____ was happening when that pain was being endured; badn
[009] it did, and say as before that its suffering was an _____ thing. On the positivist theory, everything I sought
[010] theory, everything I sought to express by calling it _____ in the first case is still present in the second. In
[011] se mistaken. The suggestion that in saying something _____ had occurred we were after all making no mistake, be
[012] ht so, we should say that these things involve great _____ and are wrong, and that to take delight in what is
[013] and are wrong, and that to take delight in what is _____ or wrong is plainly unfitting. Now on the subjectivist
[014] e taking the only sensible line. If there is nothing _____ in these things, if they get their moral complexion
[015] Ferry a reason for more earnest effort to remove the _____ of slavery from the whole land as speedily as possib
[016] For Fromm, capitalism is the enemy, the root of all _____ . It is of course useful to have a sovereign cause in
[017] the dozen. Indignantly she denounces Rangoni for his _____ thoughts and orders him to leave her. At once t
[018] said, referring to the pretentious "Jazz Concert". " _____ , man,
[019] , man, _____ ", he said, and that's all he said for the rest of th
[020] ay! For His mercy and His guidance to spare you from _____ and eternal punishment in the Lake of Fire". Stev
[021] r sins. I say to you that the Church will ever decry _____ "! John's reply was like a declaration of war. Mon
[022] hadn't amounted to anything. There had been nothing _____ or dirty in his intentions. A second scene flashe
[023] is left hand to the wall and fumbled for the switch: _____ flourishes in the dark. The room was bathed in light
[024] eeling, gave me as-it-were the spirit, the demoniac, _____ spirit of this whole affair. You see, besides bei
[025] om time to time. It was not, thought Pamela, such an _____ place after all. No wonder Melissa responded so comp
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[001] es in small numbers (it was the part of a "dead game _____ " in the early years of the twentieth century to be t
[002] e men interested in playing soccer and promoting the _____ . Membership consists of both beginners and experienc
[003] t rides, and trips to broaden their knowledge of the _____ . Orchesis, for students interested in the modern dan
[004] later on. What the hell do you think baseball is? A _____ ? It's a way of life, goddamit! And you've got to be
[005] crudely wrapped in one of the murderer's Hollywood _____ shirts. Although it was a mere fragment of the victi
[006] urces for such income are the tourist trade, limited _____ hunting, and the tightly- controlled harvest of ivor
[007] e of the elephant will be slower. So long as private _____ hunting is allowed (and profitable), farmers and c
[008] e Asian Games and was supposed to be a demonstration _____ at Sydney Olympics. However, despite lobbying by Asi
[009] espite lobbying by Asian and European countries, cue _____ was dropped. The IOC has to take a decision and sinc
[010] ed- out stockbrokers will not only pay the nut on LGE _____ Science, Loehr's health and training facility in Orl
[011] didn't bowhunt but this fall I will. I abandoned the _____ out of concern about wounding and losing deer. Too
[012] the future ownership of the Redskins something of a _____ in itself. At the center stands John: His ambitions
[013] deal, but two of his books, at least, are classics: 'A _____ and a Pastime,' a feverishly compressed, exquisitely
[014] here is another advance in this field, Virtual Vision _____ , which allows people to view large-screen TV images
[015] allows people to view large-screen TV images through _____ sunglasses. The unit consists of video eyewear and a
[016] lay on the normal field of vision. The Virtual Vision _____ also can be used as a color viewfinder for camcorders.
[017] sitting in a movie theater wearing the Virtual Vision _____ glasses. They were able to watch the movie and glanc
[018] tennis or going to the theater. Skiing would become a _____ where most of your time is spent enjoying your leisure
[019] s the day after in the corridors of power in Moscow". _____ Page 37 891010 Around the World By BRUCE PALLING Law
[020] eir comrades all over the country to do the same. ’Ä¢ _____ Page 2907 Cricket First Test: Azharuddin's daring de
[021] the championship will be in Japan on 22 October. ’Ä¢ _____ Page 32 891002 Golf: Calcavecchia digs in for consola
[022] O'Connor Jnr said. I was like a zombie out there". ’Ä¢ _____ Page 32 891002 Rugby Union: The dye is cast for injur
[023] h England's Rob Andrew taking over the captaincy. ’Ä¢ _____ Page 32 891002 Football: FA investigates crowd troub
[024] t out of the squad for Saturday's game at Watford. ’Ä¢ _____ Page 32 891002 Cycling: Vanderaerden's Classic clout
[025] , and I feel very tired. Still, the best man won". ’Ä¢ _____ Page 32 891002 Rugby League: Kiwis humbled by Saints
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[001] egular trips to the cabins, but many of the students _____ to take off in small unofficial groups for a weekend
[002] on the level of merely human agreeableness, we might _____ not to have any association at all. There is a vast
[003] ed both to know which is "worse". I know Negroes who _____ the South and white Southerners, because "At least t
[004] as much as they could up North because they so much _____ the quieter habits of their home town. In the pas
[005] igners and Catholics. When it comes to this, I shall _____ emigrating to some country where they make no preten
[006] ofesses to be "national". I must confess that I _____ the Liberal who is personally affected, who is willi
[007] ating, courtship, sex, and family life, our students _____ what they are expected to
[008] what they are expected to _____ . For them, in the grim words of a once-popular song,
[009] orked on the premise that "young men spontaneously _____ to be decent, and that opportunities for wholesome r
[010] shoals of today's stormy international seas. I _____ to speak, however, of SAM RAYBURN, the person, rathe
[011] g for a suitable nesting place. Most species seem to _____ a ready-made hollow such as a deserted mouse nest, a
[012] ever, many herpetologists remain skeptical and would _____ a tentative maximum of about 30 feet. It is possi
[013] tance. With respect to those countries whose leaders _____ to live with their illusions, we can afford to wait,
[014] , asking them to be tried out, he told them he would _____ to test them. Each person was to enter the testing r
[015] tudents benefit from vocational education. Employers _____ to hire youth with such training rather than those w
[016] a very small man is up on a saddle, he'd like as not _____ to eat his meals there. That's understandable, and I
[017] he would approve". "What kind of models would you _____ "? "Workmen. In their mid-thirties. Not bulky labo
[018] and some have no luck and that, whatever people who _____ order say, is the size of it. The poor, unlucky-
[019] aturally curly hair runs in my family. Personally, I _____ straight hair like yours, but as they say on the Con
[020] titillatingly toxic slurry that infuriates those who _____ their fact and fiction unmixed. (The drug-dependent S
[021] resulting closer family relationships. Many seem to _____ or not to notice the lack of conventional social con
[022] store equipped with this system knows what customers _____ -- it knows their tastes. The system, called React, i
[023] sh, French, Italian, German -- whatever language you _____ . For skeptics, I sometimes show at my seminars a vide
[024] to this, which of the two final schemes they actually _____ . The principle which the Prince helped establish, when
[025] hitecture By PETER DORMER FROM personal experience I _____ a hut to a council house; as a child I lived first in