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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] s to soak raw beef in vinegar for twenty-four hours, _____ it on the wart, and wear it for a week. A simpler me
[002] art, and wear it for a week. A simpler method was to _____ a thread tightly around the wart at its base and wea
[003] anized with Smith-Hughes money, there may be a close _____ between the labor union and a local employer on the
[004] assistants, Menshikov went abroad gorgeous in white _____ and tails. Overnight he became the most available ma
[005] and green. He wore a brown knit sports shirt with no _____ . We walked down the Rue de L'Arcade, thence along
[006] nt of crisis it had no more depth than an old-school _____ . Irish Catholicism is not attractive, but it is deep
[007] ason and developed techniques of advertising which _____ in with "every basic trauma and neurosis in American
[008] ll knot a break in the yarn in 10 seconds as well as _____ in new bobbins as the running end is exhausted.
[009] ster was brought in from the south with an emergency _____ -in with the Vermont Marble Company system to the nor
[010] e dressed rather formally. The man wore a vest and a _____ , the woman had on a dark green dress and three stran
[011] was standing in front of the mirror, tightening his _____ . He had on his gray tweed overcoat and his city hat,
[012] ing away as another man came in. He straightened his _____ at the mirror with a shaking hand; the genial smile
[013] hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his _____ , knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black
[014] oked dapper in a lightweight summer suit, brown silk _____ and green-tinted soft collar. He wore perforated, wh
[015] all, but he thrust it to the back of his head. " _____ him up". "Hell with it". Before they could g
[016] order before he came downstairs. He was kneeling to _____ his shoelaces. His fingers felt absurdly thick and c
[017] been meaning to read for years but haven't, if they _____ in to your field of interest. Look back at critical a
[018] play was ruled a home run and allowed the Yankees to _____ a game they won in extra innings. Ten days later, th
[019] ng in this weeklong surface design class. Sure, I had _____ - dyed some T- shirts in the '70s (hadn't every littl
[020] ugh to handle "killer" hurricanes. A patented hook-and- _____ connector holds the logs firmly together at the corne
[021] gy simultaneously offers small uplink dishes that can _____ into such celestial systems independently. In many
[022] bandwidth in the broadcast spectrum. First to sign a _____ -in agreement with ORBCOMM to market the service was t
[023] make outgoing calls, but it does have the ability to _____ in with satellite and other paging services. A small
[024] e was, it is true, still a funny, tubby chap in a bow- _____ - in 1983, Frank and Selina had Russell Grant fillin
[025] revalued its properties, bringing a £7m surplus. To _____ in with the new broadcasting levy system, which start
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[001] potential is 23 million youths, the project and its _____ on hunting and shooting education have many more to
[002] of face panels simplify the change from one copy or _____ to another; new panels are exchanged for the old rig
[003] outdated copy are returned to the sign shop so a new _____ can be applied. Signs of this type have already m
[004] - changeable signs. Signs are meant to convey a _____ , and in most cases, this requires words and letters.
[005] es, this requires words and letters. Frequently, the _____ must be changed at intervals to feature new products
[006] learly established that in a number of instances the _____ did not come from a spirit but was received telepath
[007] is by "proxy sittings", wherein the person seeking a _____ does not himself meet with the medium but is represe
[008] yond politics and had no need of justification by a " _____ ". ## "IT IS NOT AN individual that is in the dock
[009] telephoned Torrio and returned to O'Banion with the _____ : "Say, Dionie, I just been talking to Johnny, and he
[010] ni Martini, the bugler boy who carried Custer's last _____ , or Margarito Lopez, the one-man Army on Leyte, was
[011] ing of the go messages, again in special codes, each _____ also contains an "internal authenticator", another s
[012] crew are required to copy down Wisman's go-to-war _____ . Each must match Wisman's "pie" with the fragment th
[013] y forthrightly depicted it in his State of the Union _____ , will determine "whether a nation organized and gove
[014] sity left him no other way to save the Union. In his _____ of December 2, 1862, he put his purpose and his poli
[015] ution, we should be aware that in actual practice no _____ is purely one of the four types, question, command,
[016] munication system ever dreamed up. All four types of _____ listed in Table 1 are permitted, although decorum an
[017] of war. They also furnish proof that, in modern war, _____ sending must be monitored. Without monitoring, a mil
[018] signaling. Alexander the Great, who used runners as _____ carriers, did not have to worry about having every o
[019] tiles has been adopted, and the range and breadth of _____ sending has increased. Next to the old problem of th
[020] o much personal coaching, indoctrinating, etc. (b) A _____ runs too great a risk of being distorted if it is to
[021] there were no regulations pertaining to the types of _____ sent. Of types of
[022] sent. Of types of _____ listed in Table 1, commands and statements are the o
[023] single element in the story that carries the erotic _____ , the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that wo
[024] nuated itself into my soul. Besides, that particular _____ does no more than weakly echo the roar in all fresh
[025] t clear, but the content, form, and language of the " _____ ", as well as the source, would all play differentiat
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[001] ur car will be waiting for you at dockside, airport, _____ station or hotel when you arrive, oftentimes at no a
[002] the open cockpit. He peered ahead and grinned as the _____ tracks came into view again below. "Good old ir
[003] ay strewn for half a mile downstream. Vermont's main _____ line was prostrate. And in the dark days after the G
[004] ices- and wondered how to move the mail. The state's _____ system counted miles of broken bridges and missing r
[005] g mail could be ferried across Lake Champlain to the _____ at Port Kent, N. Y. But what came in was piling up.
[006] oski or the White River along the line of the broken _____ . When driving rain or mist socked in one valley, Fog
[007] rd the end of the 1950's. A band of robbers enters a _____ station, overpowers and ties up the telegraph operat
[008] bills, that calling for an investigation of the coal- _____ monopoly. Attorney Shearn had worked on this for two
[009] ,. THE HEARST "BARREL"# HEARST hopped into a private _____ car with Max Ihmsen and made an arduous personal can
[010] Instead we have stood idly by, watched our commuter _____ service decline, and have failed to offer a helping
[011] in the New York City area. Here the New York Central _____ , one of the Nation's most important carriers, has al
[012] al has appeared in the form of the Chesapeake + Ohio _____ 's proposal for control of the Baltimore + Ohio railr
[013] Commission, would give the combined C. + O.-B. + O. _____ a total of 185 points served in common with the New
[014] have serious economic consequences not only to the _____ itself, but to the 40,000 people per day who are pro
[015] creating a strong, balanced, competitive two-system _____ service in the East is so obvious that B. + O. was p
[016] ve of helping to create a healthy two-system eastern _____ structure in the public interest". The Intersta
[017] re of the state policy at issue. The classic case is _____ Commission v. Pullman. The commission had issued an
[018] onment of certain "uneconomic" train facilities. The _____ , claiming deprivation of property without due proces
[019] n the Court's result, for they found no merit in the _____ 's claim. But they objected vigorously to the proposi
[020] irst, or double-step, type might also be called the " _____ type" because of its application to railroads (and o
[021] Since this book is concerned only incidentally with _____ rates, it will not attempt to analyze the methods by
[022] f fully distributed cost analysis which, unlike the " _____ type", draws no distinction between cost allocation
[023] irst subtype, the analyst (following the practice of _____ analysis in this particular respect) distributes bot
[024] he telegraph office has shifted in location from the _____ station at the Depot and shops at the Center back to
[025] This was extended the following year to include the _____ station agent's office and Thayer's Hotel at Factory
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[001] w to listen. Naturally, the patient does not say, "I _____ my father", or "Sibling rivalry is what bugs me". Wh
[002] ouble". But Torrio and Capone had graver cause to _____ and distrust the Irishman. For three years, since th
[003] scious. With lyrical intensity they reveal what they _____ , but their faith in love, inspired by the revolution
[004] enduring in its effects than the control of love and _____ . The study of literature contributes to this control
[005] e feathers on reluctant young men, orators preaching _____ of the Germans, and newspapers exaggerating enemy
[006] had some reasons, too. I admire the English lady. I _____ embarrassing silences and have been known to make a
[007] muttered in a low but intense voice, to herself, "I _____ that woman inside me"! I could evoke no further elab
[008] ignment (with no assignments of Negro children), and _____ bombings. #DESEGREGATION AND COURT ORDER# Now let'
[009] d I owe it all to them". The word also made him feel _____ , sincere
[010] , sincere _____ , for those so labeled. He used it very effectively w
[011] am heard the voice within himself saying: I must not _____ him, I must not
[012] him, I must not _____ him or I shall die. His heart suddenly opened t
[013] d at Andrei's heart. He ground his teeth together. I _____ Warsaw, he said to himself. I
[014] Warsaw, he said to himself. I _____ Poland and all the goddamned mothers' sons of them.
[015] we'd win our battle for equality. But now I think I _____ it very much". "And do you really think that the
[016] "You know I don't like my men to have other women. I _____ it. I
[017] it. I _____ it". She got so drunk I had to take her home. It
[018] rtunity was obvious. Motive. Here, too, the cause to _____ lay well back in the years. But bitterness had more
[019] bills? If she runs around with other men, and if you _____ her as you say, why not just divorce her"? Hane
[020] , wherever you're goin"? "Yes". "You don't _____ me any more"? Clayton choked, shook his head, mur
[021] lifted him gently into the saddle, like a child. "I _____ to leave my garden", Gavin said. "They'll trample it
[022] d, barred from her by the vehemence of her blame and _____ . Still, he felt better. A tight wagon meant so much.
[023] aren't we, Penny? All of us, that is, except me. You _____ me, you
[024] me, you _____ my guts, because I like to hunt. You actually
[025] my guts, because I like to hunt. You actually _____ me- and we both know it- because I killed that filth
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[001] icago for $306 as a cure-all. "Hang this around your _____ or attach it to other parts of your anatomy, and its
[002] rner, as uneasy as a litter of hungry leaches on the _____ of a wooden god". Still another, annoyed by the brev
[003] be applied to the top of the nose or the back of the _____ , pressed on the upper lip, or inserted into the nost
[004] by wrapping a red woolen string about the patient's _____ and tying in it a knot for each year of his life. Or
[005] yeller, or brown stripe runnin' down the back, from _____ to tail, a characteristic of many Spanish cattle. A
[006] s too drew away, she returned to a thorn bush in the _____ of land running into the gully, crouched low and wai
[007] d by within twenty feet of her, roped her around the _____ , but a lioness'
[008] , but a lioness' _____ is short and thick and with a quick twist she slippe
[009] nding from the present Gaspee Point south to Warwick _____ and twenty miles inland. The settlement was called
[010] le of himself, that he should have seized him by the _____ at once and forcibly hauled him into his bedroom. Le
[011] ibrosis. The muscles of the extremities, chest wall, _____ , and abdominal wall were soft, pale, and atrophic.
[012] lowered, though not, apparently, focusing. Even his _____ seemed thicker and therefore shorter. His hands, whi
[013] reling over possession of a gold crucifix around the _____ of a wounded Filipino. The colored boy had it, and T
[014] ed in an army blanket, much patched, fastened at the _____ with a cord. From under the shapeless huddle of blan
[015] incial government. He scratched his mosquito-plagued _____ . From the saddlebags, hung on a Hitchcock chair,
[016] my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her _____ because she was so ornery but mostly because she was
[017] est I could feel the hair stand up on the back of my _____ like a dog's that is going to get into a fight. I tu
[018] ly, his fetid breath beating softly against Watson's _____ . His sweet whisper came after great effort. -Oh,
[019] e when I shoved him. The covers slid down his skinny _____ so I saw his head, fuzzed like a dandelion gone to s
[020] up I ducked away but it caught me on the side of the _____ , watering my eyes, and I backed off to cough. Pa was
[021] d flopped back. His mouth fell open. The skin on his _____ was tight. He was cold all right. "Hold his hea
[022] en-nosed man with the muscular arms and wrestler's _____ was merely the caretaker trying his hand at the boss
[023] color in comb and wattles, the length and quality of _____ and saddle hackles, the firm, wide spread of the toe
[024] cockeyed"? She turned and put her arms around his _____ . "I don't want to leave here, Winston". "Now li
[025] rtly out, and Shayne's left arm snaked in around his _____ to help him, while he set himself solidly on the roa
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[001] and then look for leaks again. Be sure the bugs and _____ are blown out of the radiator fins. Use the air hose
[002] ted light. Also, the light sources are shielded from _____ and weather exposure and cannot obstruct the view of
[003] e went down like a wet rag and the attackers hit the _____ in the face of the withering enemy fire. Enemy
[004] sometimes used as well as soap. Just plain old black _____ was also used as a pack to relieve wasp or bee sting
[005] hool. They apologized for the condition, including _____ and flies, and I was a little at a loss to know what
[006] ir skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and _____ which had almost the consistency of a second skin. T
[007] rker than they appeared; as if the coating of sweat, _____ , and ashes were a cosmetic. The boys had beautiful d
[008] s. The curb was a line of stone laid edgewise in the _____ and tilted this way and that by frost in the ground
[009] ance in the European war; it meant instead hardship, _____ , and death. Baker gave Leonard Wood credit for
[010] roved substantially by blocking windows with bricks, _____ , books, magazines, or other heavy material. #/5,.
[011] n the four major categories given below: _1._ _____ , which is here defined as particulate material which
[012] liquids which evaporate to leave a residue. The _____ on the soiled objects is mechanically held by surfac
[013] s to some extent. However, a major factor in binding _____ is the attraction between surfaces that goes under t
[014] surface exhibiting an opposite charge. In addition, _____ particles can be held onto a soiled surface by stick
[015] asically of applying mechanical action to loosen the _____ particles and dried matter in the presence of water
[016] ions would be strongly sorbed on the surface of the _____ (especially clay soils) so as to give it a greatly
[017] rge under washing conditions. The negatively charged _____ particles then leave the surface and go into the aqu
[018] attire you may very well mistake them for lumps of _____ . I must add at once that these animals are what we c
[019] e to fall in love with him again there in the rutted _____ driveway standing in the cold fog, mad as she was at
[020] ist, and when she gardened she would eat dinner with _____ on her calves. But just when she seemed to have sunk
[021] ent on looking out the window. He noticed a speck of _____ on the sill and swiped at it with his finger. Then h
[022] odsville was more than three miles away, down an old _____ road that the rain had turned into a quagmire.
[023] backs. The fencing by the roadside ended. Now the _____ highway was bordered on either side by a fairly deep
[024] e usual straggling privet hedges and patches of bare _____ in most small-town squares, the building was hemmed
[025] said, "Some heap, hey? Got a heck of a buy on this, _____ cheap". "Yeah, it's a real load", I told him, loo
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[001] retirement age flexible so skilled craftsmen such as _____ and die makers can be kept on the job for the conven
[002] ctive Sergeant John J. Ryan down on his knees with a _____ embedded in a labour office safe in the Postal Teleg
[003] t, even when on a knuckle, if it was made by a rusty _____ ; this would stop the flow and also prevent infection.
[004] uto mechanics, carpentry, drafting, electrical work, _____ -and-die work, and sheet-metal work. Formally or
[005] ately on graduation from high school. To be sure, in _____ -and-die work and in the building trades, the first j
[006] of "identity vs. identity diffusion" as a conceptual _____ in superimposing a few common denominators onto the
[007] iquarian pastime to that of the most valuable single _____ of the early English historian. And with the publica
[008] vironment on history. Here was another indispensable _____ . Indeed, he concluded that "geographical conditions
[009] ped world. It must be recognized as a slow- acting _____ designed to prevent political and military crises su
[010] se recently confronted in Laos and Cuba. It is not a _____ for dealing with these crises after they have erupte
[011] ods. The micrometer caliper, as a common workshop _____ , also owes much to J. R. Brown. Although Mr. Brown w
[012] onceived the importance of mass producing this basic _____ for general use. So it was that when Mr. Brown and M
[013] t when Mr. Brown and Mr. Sharpe first saw the French _____ on exhibition in Paris in 1868, they brought a sampl
[014] in 1892, a large portion of the company's precision _____ business was carried out under the name of Darling,
[015] the length and breadth of the Brown + Sharpe machine _____ line became the greatest in the world. During the ea
[016] ility devoted exclusively to precision machinery and _____ manufacture anywhere in the world. During these
[017] is now active on four major fronts. The Machine _____ Division is currently producing Brown + Sharpe singl
[018] h introduces the company to an entirely new field of _____ development. In the Industrial Products Division,
[019] Vernier calipers, and accessories. In the Cutting _____ Division, the principal products include a wide vari
[020] nded its plant in Darwen, England, and added machine _____ capacity. The operations of its other plant in Rochd
[021] etions- particularly the former- provide a different _____ or indicator of expectancy in osseous development, e
[022] ter a first dusting, we began to wash. A most useful _____ for wetting the surface without running down was mad
[023] ratch there. "Why can't I leave her locked up in the _____ crib"? The thin man stopped his pacing long enoug
[024] nds. "What am I going to do with her all day? In the _____ crib she can't get away". "What the hell do I car
[025] ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the _____ he needed for the job he'd promised to do. ## To
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[001] . _7._ More unitized lumber is being shipped on _____ cars, and NLRDA studies show that
[002] cars, and NLRDA studies show that _____ cars loaded with the new Type 6- B floating-load met
[003] cars available. As in the United States, there is a _____ fee-per-day rental charge plus a few cents per kilom
[004] mitations when you lease a car, and you pay only the _____ monthly rate plus a nominal charge for documents and
[005] the ever-existent past-fantasy future. Three seconds _____ is the usual time, and the space is crossed by moder
[006] , Vermont National Guard, laid out runways on Wilson _____ , high on Millstone Hill. The "Barre Aviation Field"
[007] State House when the wind was right, and used Wilson _____ above Barre when it wasn't. Between the unsafe Towne
[008] oad haul that was necessary to gain access to Wilson _____ , arrangements at the state capital were far from sat
[009] him to find a safer landing place, preferably on the _____ -topped hills across the Winooski River. "But Fo
[010] scouted the terrain on the heights of Berlin. A long _____ known as the St. John field seemed to answer their p
[011] shels of peas and some chickens were loaded onto the _____ -bottomed boats and rowed up the river to Big Stone L
[012] ncession. O'Banion's reply was a raucous laugh and a _____ refusal. Still more jealous bitterness was engend
[013] the shore. The giant waves are more dangerous on _____ shores than on steep ones. They usually range from 2
[014] of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a _____ rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the
[015] hrough to the top of the Reef. She was standing on a _____ rock three feet above ground and when she saw him sh
[016] "Damned right", he said. "Once I get out on the _____ I do. Some chaps that know an area well can make the
[017] e guessed ..."? Squatting on our haunches beside the _____ stone we broke them on, we were safe behind the high
[018] mall mouth with deep furrows on either side, a large _____ nose, and penetrating blue eyes. His gray hair was t
[019] ty of their dwelling. The country about Cambridge is _____ and not particularly spectacular in its scenery, tho
[020] n't stepped up and asked to see papers in the hated, _____ , dialect mispronunciation of Mussolini's home distri
[021] themselves to abuse and inadequate control measures. _____ payments over $50 per month are more expensive to th
[022] is shown in Figure 2. It consists of two blocks with _____ surfaces held apart by shims. There is a small well
[023] resence of large normal pressures in the presence of _____ shear fields which were forecast by the theory in th
[024] meter ratio of 4:1. The top of the sample was nearly _____ and the bottom hemispherical. Spectra were also obta
[025] hile the rest of the subject remains imbedded in, or _____ upon, the surface. And the surface is driven back, i
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[001] ter, the moon, a beautiful face. To a stranger their _____ in these things may seem paradoxical, for Persians c
[002] spend a morning cracking open other pebbles for our _____ in seeing how much prettier they were inside than th
[003] arewell to Andromache" most movingly, to the special _____ of Rabbi Jastrow at his home in Germantown near Phil
[004] ld tremble with desire and even experience a flaming _____ that had nothing, nothing whatever to do with friend
[005] tation of regaining control of the government, their _____ at the prospect of a new war, their hopes of having
[006] fire in front of the tent. To my great surprise and _____ , when they saw the two trees they went rushing off,
[007] hich she spoke of her concern for his health and her _____ in seeing him so much at home among the crippled chi
[008] ort visit to Chapel Hill, where with almost childish _____ he visited old friends and favorite campus spots. On
[009] rs- I mean, if there is a use in poetry as well as a _____ ". When we turn to Aristotle's ideas on the moral
[010] akable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic _____ in verbally tormenting an adversary. But the real be
[011] , her arm flew upward very freely. There was evident _____ on the part of the subject in response to her experi
[012] ad once experienced under hypnosis. She ascribed her _____ with both experiences to the effect they seemed to h
[013] y merry laughter". Most of us would say that in this _____ at the killing of others or the causing of suffering
[014] s involve great evil and are wrong, and that to take _____ in what is evil or wrong is plainly unfitting. Now o
[015] m very bright. On the other hand, to greet them with _____ would convert what before was neutral into something
[016] er memory the boy remained unchanged, quick with the _____ of laughter, and the pain with which she recalled th
[017] a that my mind served up to me for contemplation and _____ . ## Nothing in all the preceding years had had the
[018] the captain's indoctrination of new men, took great _____ in slaughtering cockroaches with ethyl chloride, and
[019] d in the books, and this would make up a part of her _____ . Moreover, nursing various Stubblefields- her aunt,
[020] kness. Infinite peace, complete contentment. Idiot's _____ , I later discovered. ## I felt no conflict between
[021] a surprisingly short time, Dolores appeared. To his _____ , her eyes focused at once upon the two garments. Slo
[022] victim's remains, it was enough. Welch was wild with _____ . His elation grew as Barco's seven disclosures broug
[023] been romping around him on these walks, yelping with _____ , dashing off into the bushes on fruitless hunting ex
[024] s of contemporary culture that would probably puzzle, _____ , and possibly frighten people who lived just a few ge
[025] viding an instant, low- cholesterol, low-fat "meaty" _____ . Such mushroom "steaks" have most of the vitamins an