MULTI_CONC
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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 )
customer
engine
female
fool
hide
intend
intention
smell
waste
wire
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2. WORDS
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[001] ide the right wall. The engineer wished to see if the _____ still ran along the side. The
[002] still ran along the side. The _____ was there fastened to the rock. "Forward!" said Hardi
[003] Granite House to visit the "Nautilus," by means of a _____ which connected it with the corral. Possibly he woul
[004] eir way Neb and Herbert were careful to preserve the _____ which had been laid down by the captain between the c
[005] lead in the early stages, tired rapidly nearing the _____ and was able to save place money only a head in fron
[006] ead. Make sure that the metal tube through which the _____ passes is in the shape of an inverted " L", the foot
[007] n behind concrete walls and iron curtains and barbed _____ , reducing them to slavery, systematically crushing n
[008] azor-sharp definition in which the muscles look like _____ cables writhing and twisting under the skin! Re
[009] turer. He devised a detonating fuse in which a short _____ was caused to glow by an electric current. In 1
[010] e had, like other experimenters, laid the conducting _____ across the compass needle instead of parallel with i
[011] his lecture Oersted happened to place the conducting _____ over and parallel to a magnetic needle. Knowing sp
[012] lled in the sides of the letters and stainless steel _____ threaded through the openings, its ends twisted behi
3. WORDS
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[001] is impeccable, of course, except that I feel like a _____ being driven up to work in a little car, by my wife,
[002] onal defenses and scientific accomplishments; only a _____ would think otherwise. But we must not forget man's
[003] nd fed very slowly to avoid binding. Fly cutters can _____ you into putting your hand too close to the tool, so
[004] t's on maneuvers. In combat, helping your CO make a _____ of himself might mean getting yourself killed. But i
[005] about what people may do with them- that some crazy _____ may "push the button". I am certainly not adequ
[006] embarrassing silences and have been known to make a _____ out of myself just to prevent one. I also had and ha
[007] all, dark and ill-equipped. The teacher was a pliant _____ . There were two liquor saloons not very far from the
[008] of man allowed this sort of thing to happen. What a _____ he had been to think of his brother! So Charles was
[009] t. And don't come back. Find out something. You're a _____ . Both you and Hans. Pedersen. That cock. Don't come
[010] id"- "A fat hell on Big Hans. He's an even bigger _____ than you are. Fat, hey? I taught him, dammit, and I'
[011] find out about this one because we were using it. A _____ could see what was going on. If he found out Ma foun
[012] 's over now. And it was his main present! Leave that _____ picture out", she added sharply. Winston laid it
4. WORDS
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[001] for sea. Would the island hold together till then? The _____ of Pencroft and Cyrus Harding was to launch the vesse
[002] 's Clubs. Hughes said Monday, "It is the apparent _____ of the Republican Party to campaign on the carcass
[003] the opening round of the Los Angeles open with every _____ of delivering a final crusher. He boomed a 280-yard
[004] antiques for the presidential home. It is the AID's _____ to create in the library "a miniature museum of Amer
[005] DC-7. Actually, the officers on the ground had no _____ of letting the hijackers get away with any kind of
[006] neither will its Warsaw Pact allies. The West has no _____ of attacking Russia. Chairman Khrushchev and Jo
[007] - which left many points obscure. Was it the party's _____ , for example, to abolish gradually the kolkhoz syste
[008] broke up the party. #@# But for all the manifest _____ to "show off", this was a circus with a difference,
[009] ile race of 1957. If this was in fact Mr. Remarque's _____ he has achieved a notable failure. Clerfayt of "Heav
[010] e circuit, and since it was obviously Mr. Remarque's _____ to establish automobile racing as life in microcosm,
[011] logical concepts completely misrepresents Bultmann's _____ . His point is not that mythology may not be used, bu
[012] ess of time. If it was, then it must have been God's _____ to translate him at a certain point from time to ete
5. WORDS
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[001] ignaled "release", and started the roaring pulse-jet _____ - then streaked away from beneath the Heinkel. T
[002] be 105". Clerfayt, transported, may think of the _____ driving his car as "a mystical beast under the hood"
[003] the heart "for much the same reason that a Chevrolet _____ in a Cadillac body would wear out sooner than if it
[004] at aircraft could be built. For example, a 12-to-one _____ would power a supersonic VTOL fighter. With a 15-to
[005] power a supersonic VTOL fighter. With a 15-to-one _____ , a supersonic aircraft weighing 300,000 pounds could
[006] nd you take your choice. American technology in _____ and hull design is largely responsible for the plent
[007] nstance. Now here is truly a marvel. The outboard _____ of today has a phenomenal range of one to 80 horsepo
[008] rsepower, unheard of a few years ago for a two cycle _____ in quantity production. These engines can be removed
[009] ureau was reorganized by the National Association of _____ and Boat Manufacturers and a group of insurance unde
[010] ke them in the general order of their popularity. # _____ DISPLACEMENT# A rodder should be able to compute the
[011] er should be able to compute the displacement of his _____ . Displacement is sometimes referred to as "swept vol
[012] e". Most entry blanks for competitive events require _____ displacement information because of class restrictio
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[001] at the polls was just like being at church. I didn't _____ a drop of liquor, and we didn't have a bit of troubl
[002] that he had an eye for the best. He was able to _____ a bargain- and a masterpiece- a continent away, and
[003] a coed beside him becomes an ache and a pain. He can _____ again the perfume she wore and recall the lilting so
[004] re and recall the lilting sound of laughter, and can _____ again the aroma of autumn- fallen leaves, the wine o
[005] of straining feet, the rasp of the canvas pants; the _____ and feel of hot, wet woolen sleeves across his face.
[006] up a handful of rich dark earth. Sniffing its sweet _____ and letting it fall to show its good crumbly consist
[007] going up to the door". The sensitive often seems to _____ definite odors, too, or subjectively feels emotions.
[008] (provided the eye has not already spotted it) is to _____ the wet end of the cork after pulling it: if it smel
[009] lion. They tell you horses go crazy at the sight or _____ of a bear or a lion, but these didn't. Means ed
[010] than that which surrounded the town aborigines. The _____ at first was more surprising than unpleasant. It was
[011] gines never bathed. One's impulse is to say that the _____ was a stink and unpleasant. But that is a cliche and
[012] asant. But that is a cliche and a dishonest one. The _____ is sexual, but so powerfully so that a civilized nos
7. WORDS
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[001] at least this local legislative body had nothing to _____ , and, therefore, had no objections to making the del
[002] ing it up with some wild, wild women in a honky-tonk _____ -out. The robbers run from the
[003] -out. The robbers run from the _____ -out, take cover in a wooded declivity, and are shot
[004] ifferent reality behind the facade? Does the surface _____ a quite different picture? The short answer to
[005] subtle innovation which eventually tend largely to _____ the Old Way. Thus Faulkner reminds us, and wisely, t
[006] tions he made some diaphanous tents that alternately _____ and reveal the performer, and a girl's cape lined wi
[007] Disciplinary Committee .... "We have nothing to _____ under a bushel. We did our job, Mr. Stavropoulos and
[008] Berger learns that political ambition is more apt to _____ than to reveal the truth about men. But as he discov
[009] asurements of skins are of little value; every snake _____ is noticeably longer than its carcass and intentiona
[010] n a few days earlier and, when he could not show the _____ , arrested him. Thinking the evidence insufficient to
[011] as the shifting harmonies that accompany him all but _____ the firm pedal point beneath them. He addresses Mari
[012] ked tiny. The heavy branches in his front yard would _____ and then reveal them. They turned at the bottom of K
8. WORDS
customer
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[001] dicated, however, that the university itself did not _____ to make any test of the laws. The Georgia Const
[002] ers by the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights. #' _____ TO ATTEND'# "We
[003] TO ATTEND'# "We _____ to attend the downtown theaters before the first of
[004] , "practically no one believes that you subjectively _____ to re-enter the Mainland. What evidence is there of
[005] r church-state". (page 34) Apparently he does not _____ that those who read or view this play should think o
[006] right. Do buy meat the day or the day before you _____ to cook it. Keep it no longer than 36 hours before
[007] re of four glass tubes (in Copenhagen I used 30) and _____ to carry it with me". Oersted joined Ritter at Jena
[008] PHY AND SOIL_ Is the land suited to the crops you _____ to raise? If you can't tell, get help from your coun
[009] yman would at first sight think it should be used. I _____ to include under the term all the practical courses
[010] on of the goodness of the good. In any case I do not _____ to let the present occasion pass without dealing mor
[011] I supported Cleveland three times and Bryan twice. I _____ to support the nominee of the party at St. Louis, wh
[012] ions and educational policies are made by people who _____ to act in the interests of the society as a whole.
9. WORDS
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[001] a bit of world law just to pass the time away. #THE _____ LOSES AGAIN# The board of suspension of the Intersta
[002] tores, where meat cutters will not be required. If a _____ wishes a special cut, it will not be available. We
[003] nfluence in the community. Obviously, much more than _____ expectation is determining the realtor's role. Jud
[004] ounter the price competition problem? _@ INCREASED _____ SOPHISTICATION._ Average consumer is becoming mor
[005] e more complex. Second, in a competitive market, the _____ feels his weight and throws it around. Providing
[006] s his weight and throws it around. Providing good _____ service requires as thorough a marketing and general
[007] zations, not only in the techniques but also in good _____ relations. Have you assessed the importance of se
[008] chain stores have insisted on high quality- and the _____ seems to have caught on. If you are up against
[009] ery 6 mos. As a result, distribution costs were cut, _____ relations improved. Distribution costs are almost
[010] ust be a restriction in the deed to provide that the _____ may not be charged more than the current market pric
[011] allow their 50@ to $3 charge rather than lose a good _____ . "With a 15,500- lb fork-lift, dealers can unload un
[012] stered in France and some other Latin countries: the _____ is to be considered guilty of abysmal ignorance unti
10. WORDS
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[001] ams they have devised. These programs are volumes of _____ paper and lost hours if the citizens of a community
[002] a crowded city, and the creed of communism deplores _____ . Who will take Stalin's place beside Lenin? There is
[003] s 24 feet long. The 42-inch width leaves very little _____ . Four pieces are used. Plank the sides first, using
[004] p valuable space either. It can go in out-of-the-way _____ space. But there's no denying that the easiest an
[005] area? These factors can make the difference between _____ and efficiency in any benefit program. Above al
[006] ike to the cafeteria during the break with resulting _____ of production time. If coffee is sold at the cafeter
[007] r before you wall them in. There is no better way to _____ time than trying to install a furnace in a finished
[008] RULE NO. 4: RESTUDY WHAT YOUR MEN DO, TO HELP THEM _____ LESS OF THE TIME YOU PAY FOR# Half the manhours you
[009] day. See page 156. One good way to cut your labor _____ is to make sure you are using just the right number
[010] nd the work better scheduled. #NEW RULE NO. 5: DON'T _____ ANY 10@-A-MINUTE TIME ON GREEN LUMBER TO SAVE 3@ A
[011] es a carpenter or a drywall finisher or anybody else _____ even 20 seconds, the green stud becomes more expensi
[012] early diagnosis and treatment are so vital that the _____ of time by the patient with Doctor Fraud's cure-all