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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] eating. He frowned. But how could-? Another, longer _____ of tinsel whipped his mouth. It was two feet long. I
[002] ely so as to separate the various protein bands. The _____ sections containing a given protein were pooled, elu
[003] t. They are both trend-following methods. Even if we _____ their respective claims to the barest minimum, the
[004] inish coats, all in bad condition. It was decided to _____ the whole area down to the bricks, and to replace th
[005] east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a _____ of land in which fear-filled men were at that same m
[006] in the dark of the forest by a band of thieves, who _____ them of everything, including most of their clothes.
[007] s on the man's upper arm. Beneath his clutch, a flat _____ of muscle surged on the bone. Watson bent awkwardly
[008] he others the two miles from the bivouac area to the _____ . It was a rough long ride through the mud and pot ho
[009] of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the _____ . He wondered where the superstition had originated t
[010] n the sky. Greg rumbled down the rough metal taxi _____ , and one by one the seven members of his flight fell
[011] clean roar of the engine that took him off the rough _____ spoke well of the skill of Donovan. Greg's miss
[012] s he led the flight in and out of showers. The metal _____ they had taken off from was coal black against the g
[013] tocky body, the sun left a smoky shine on the narrow _____ of blue metal that ran between the horned handles of
[014] er you didn't come out". A smile pulled at the lower _____ of adhesive tape. "Don't even send flowers. I'll see
[015] ; it made her blister. Her name was Sabella, and the _____ of seaweed around her neck was an emerald necklace t
[016] nn Incline (1883), that operated between the Hill and _____ districts was possibly the largest incline ever const
[017] touches like the Bordeaux butter slathered on satiny _____ steak topped with frizzled onions or a mass of melti
[018] d almost half of them in women. The shopping centers, _____ malls and Interstate highways that ring Old Town had
[019] ative book review. FAR FROM the suburban sprawl and _____ malls of modern-day North Carolina, an aging army ve
[020] 13- member board? He has backed state legislation to _____ the board of high-profile politicians and to replace t
[021] Pasadena. Soon the homes will give way to suburban _____ malls, spacious parks and family restaurants, and th
[022] restaurants, and then, as the bus begins to fill, the _____ malls will give way to shuttered crack houses and clu
[023] ns. 'We need to keep the town from becoming either a _____ mall that looks like any other place or from becoming
[024] e Atlanta Exposition Center. Along this town's gaudy _____ of wedding chapels, trinket shops and video arcades
[025] ions in Prince George's County, particularly along a _____ of funeral and cemetery enterprises on Suitland Road
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[001] course of trying to prepare new men for the "culture _____ " they might encounter in remote overseas posts, that
[002] rror. Ruthlessness at this time can be a very severe _____ to the bride, both physically and psychologically. T
[003] tions when it is unexpected. I still recall the mild _____ I experienced in reading material of an enthusiastic
[004] Eichmann represents a recovery of the Jews from the _____ of the death camps, a recovery that took fifteen yea
[005] insula. At 17:07 that afternoon (Greenwich time) the _____ was recorded by the seismograph alarm in Honolulu.
[006] the electorate would have caused us a profound moral _____ . About this man we had to think twice. We knew that
[007] One night, Mama came home practically in a state of _____ . She had stood at the bottom of the stairs, as usual
[008] he nation; it was Baker who thought of lessening the _____ , which conscription always brings to a country, by s
[009] ed marked abdominal pain and distension, went into _____ , and died. #FINDINGS AT NECROPSY# The body was tha
[010] lication of analeptic and psychoactive drugs. The _____ therapies act likewise on the hypothalamic balance.
[011] tagonism between feeding and pain. A mild electrical _____ served as a conditioned stimulus and was followed by
[012] racterized. Rangoni's first entrance is a musical _____ , a sudden open fifth in a key totally unrelated to w
[013] trance, she repeats his words- then realizes, with a _____ , her own audacity. This is no assignment for a frivo
[014] His thoughts turned to other things ... The big _____ everybody had when they found ol Slater and those ot
[015] bout fifty times already"! winking at Joel's look of _____ . Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death
[016] s the sound of horses in the yard brought Kate up in _____ from an afternoon's rest when she saw the Federal so
[017] She went downstairs and received another curious _____ , for when Glendora flapped into the dining room in h
[018] n and holding it over the picture. In a kind of _____ , the ladies and gentlemen of the committee bent to o
[019] ndmade boots, peered into the orderly chaos of axle, _____ absorber, and spring. He went prone on his stomac
[020] ams"- Jess was beginning to recover from his initial _____ . "We ain't got nothing to talk about. If I don't com
[021] w and cheeks, lips that looked as if you could get a _____ from them. It was a disturbingly familiar face, too,
[022] aturated himself in the drink, for the bullet not to _____ him out of his drunken haze. Matsuo shook his head.
[023] elevator on Seven- he'd had a case of post-operative _____ , but it was all taken care of now. Seven is a women'
[024] ch, Joe". I knew then, knew with a heart-stopping _____ . "Alice"- I stammered through dry lips. "Alice, for
[025] William and Hamrick did indeed run the gantlet. From _____ and incredulity, most of the listeners went on to op
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[001] one of the original planners of the Concord Airport. _____ , wiry, dark-haired Bob Fogg had already racked up on
[002] er know the difference between an "ersatz" ballad or _____ tale and a true product of the folk? When the writer
[003] the Land-Rover of Prince Boun Oum of Champassak, a _____ man of Churchillian mien in a bush jacket and a ten-
[004] on string. The strings were draped around flowers in _____ silver bowls (page 261). The candles were lighted
[005] k pepper fruit. Sesame seed, which comes from the _____ pods of a plant grown in Egypt, Brazil, and Central
[006] caves, top covered with dense scrub and creepers and _____ grass. On the south it ended sharply as though the l
[007] as rigid as black statuary ... six figures, lean and _____ and angular, went still. Their heads were in the air
[008] away from us as we approached. He was over six feet _____ and very thin. His legs were narrow and very long.
[009] evolution started. As different physically as the _____ , angular Jefferson was from the chubby, rotund Adams
[010] g. The only extended view possible to anyone less _____ than the fences was that obtained from an upper boug
[011] ng in a rain forest or guerrilla warfare at night in _____ grass that we might have to re-examine primitive con
[012] s placed alongside the exaggeration of the backwoods _____ -tale and the awe with which man contemplates the g
[013] es I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, _____ drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or wha
[014] , but which in point of fact would have had to be as _____ as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alo
[015] e briskly, for despite your being so small and me so _____ , your stride in those days could easily match mine.
[016] ck buildings painted dazzling white, large domes and _____ , picturesque palms stretched as far as the eye could
[017] see, while the wharves and harbor were filled with _____ -masted sailing ships. The noise stunned her. Crowds
[018] g the logic of it". At that moment, up walked a _____ young man with glasses who announced himself as a wo
[019] d generals. At dinner the courses were carried in by _____ cuirassiers in red capes and black fur caps topped w
[020] d their tribal costumes, such as the one featuring a _____ , black sheepskin hat from the top of which dangled a
[021] We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, _____ , lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, th
[022] o away with a real glow. These were heroes nine feet _____ to him". ## Jefferson Lawrence was alone at the sm
[023] boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah. A _____ lady, with a ruffled collar very low on her bosom, t
[024] ds and never saw him dismounted, so whether he stood _____ or short in his shoes, I can't say; but I do know th
[025] city unless we respect morality"? Abel Poupin, a _____ man with sunken cheeks and deep-set eyes, got to his
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[001] was sharp and military, but he was up against tough _____ for that RA berth, and he wanted to play it cool. S
[002] battleground characterized by strife and avaricious _____ for colonial empires. That any sort of duty was owed
[003] ew years time, despite substantial, well established _____ . DURING the last years of Woodrow Wilson's a
[004] , "the democratic way", "government of the people", " _____ of the marketplace", etc., we live rather comfortabl
[005] ve rather comfortably in a society in which economic _____ is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corrod
[006] raveled to New York to participate in a one-act-play _____ - and won- Mercer, instead of returning with the rest
[007] t of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen _____ between the corporation whose stock is so acquired
[008] empting to bring about, the substantial lessening of _____ ...". The purpose of this provision was thus ex
[009] its incipiency not only the substantial lessening of _____ from the acquisition by one corporation of the whole
[010] aints or monopolies, or the substantial lessening of _____ , have occurred or are intended ...". 353 U. S., at 5
[011] market for these products was substantial; and that _____ for this share of the market was endangered by the
[012] cerns: " The statutory policy of fostering free _____ is obviously furthered when no supplier has an advan
[013] began by challenging Brown + Sharpe to its keenest _____ during the 1850's and early 60's. In 1868, however,
[014] s in many other industries, rising costs and intense _____ , both domestic and foreign, have exerted increasing
[015] ry man an opportunity to enter some form of athletic _____ , either intercollegiate or intramural. The same
[016] of the Women's Recreation Association, interclass _____ is organized in badminton, basketball, field hockey,
[017] rovince made the registration process into a kind of _____ among provincial officials. A goal was fixed, as giv
[018] ship of the new African nations against the ruthless _____ of the Communist bloc. Our efforts to overcome the l
[019] ward from the levels of the Fifties. Spurred by keen _____ in our industrial system, and still further increase
[020] ndustry which is not characterized by vigorous price _____ , but which is so basic that its wage-price policies
[021] a substantial share of gross national product. Price _____ is lacking. For the purposes of setting the product
[022] use of its importance, and because the lack of price _____ is well recognized, the industry is under considerab
[023] ing price will also be raised for potential domestic _____ , but unless general inflation permits profit margins
[024] terms less prejudicial to the old store. Fear of the _____ - always a great motivating force in the American eco
[025] working together on the same project, there would be _____ and you could no more escape it than you could expec
6. WORDS
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[001] could or would be willing to loose upon mankind such _____ and inhumane weapons. "However, evidence that the
[002] folly, and the world shrinks around us. It is a _____ , an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanit
[003] ugural" that God "gives to both North and South this _____ war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense cam
[004] reader? The rocking is actually felt in the story, a _____ and ominous rhythm that prophesies the tragedy. The
[005] sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a _____ destruction. But I once again assure all peoples and
[006] . "Shann was responsible for the report. He has felt _____ about all this. It was a good report, he did all he
[007] aring a fresh volume, asking me to include them. The _____ blow of the New Year put an end to that project. I w
[008] a pleasure. O Wilfrid! it is strange; but this- yes, _____ step I am about to take ... is lightened with an inu
[009] Thompson, of course, was persuaded not to take the " _____ step"; Meynell once again paid his debts and it was
[010] daily functioning, was a phobic-like fear that some _____ harm would befall the second twin, whose birth had n
[011] ned. "I have heard stories", he writes, "of the most _____ , the most unnatural actions, of the most monstrous m
[012] ur fire"! a voice called, and what made it even more _____ and unreal was that the redcoat ranks never paused
[013] wish our doctor could have saved her". "It was a _____ loss to me", said Kate quietly, feeling the pain twi
[014] s' sons of them. All of Poland is a coffin. The _____ vision of the ghetto streets flooded his mind. What
[015] so she won't feel out of place". "diets can be _____ ", the girl said. "How much overweight is she"?
[016] ain from his cheeks. He muttered something about how _____ it was, and walked with deliberate slowness to the e
[017] Right now you need a meal and a bath. Your wife's in _____ shape". "I know", Jones said dejectedly. Mor
[018] roat, the stored pain shattering free in slow gasps, _____ to see. Clayton tried to call back the face of the
[019] he meal. They all flew into action. "That was a _____ thing to do", I said to Oso. The Aricaras treated us
[020] Reverend Jason was understandably bitter. "It was a _____ thing to do. Those little children ...". But Oso
[021] d dream. But she was caught in it, and she faced the _____ possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one fro
[022] the mountain. The thought made Pamela shudder. A _____ chill swept through the grove. Not a breeze exactly,
[023] eath in front of a hundred people. Somehow more _____ than the certainty that he was about to die was the
[024] as the desolate, dry hills that rimmed the valley. A _____ , numbing sense of futility swept over him. He g
[025] stop killing. That was his true love, not Penny. The _____ power of a gun, the thing that blasted the soul out
7. WORDS
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[001] her facts, especially if he had a little more of the _____ to go on. The way MacArthur said his line- if you
[002] in point of fact, that no matter what the subject of _____ is or what words are involved, it is impossible for
[003] n confesses in daylight, that particular passages of _____ and action have occurred to him in the same order be
[004] t we have here is in some ways more like an ordinary _____ . But it is not really only a
[005] . But it is not really only a _____ . Many a sitter (in a personal sitting) has been amaz
[006] Vientiane, with officials offering tea and pleasing _____ in French, we were getting nowhere. We had nearly de
[007] al, that if he only knew what Borden said during his _____ with Morse, he would have convicted "somebody". Noti
[008] ing useful to know about ourselves? I knew that a _____ with the author would not settle such questions, bec
[009] was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a _____ I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a
[010] across to a sidewalk cafe opposite that church. The _____ that ensued may have been engrossing but it could ha
[011] his sentences from notes made immediately after our _____ . What appears here is shorter than what he actually
[012] confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a _____ for five minutes without being acutely aware of the
[013] Examiner. Hearst disclaimed blame for this, but the _____ , according to Lane, ended on a tart note. "Mr.
[014] took out my typewriter, and began typing the above _____ . The reporters were questioning the Interior man
[015] good stead at the Curia. They had other topics of _____ , besides their news from courts and fairs, which wer
[016] ce of the following sort to corroborate him. After a _____ with another man, he was able to recount practically
[017] hat it would be sensational. And listening to such a _____ one morning while taking a cup of chocolate in a caf
[018] able in everybody. Since ordinary breakfast-table _____ was impossible, it was at least something that they
[019] wall plug there was sixty feet of cord, and when the _____ came to an end, Eugene carried the instrument with h
[020] note of hesitancy in the secretary's voice left the _____ open. He had something more to say. "I beg to inquir
[021] occupied by the man would bring in the sound of any _____ , and I was positively nauseated I was so hungry.
[022] y were all under a spell. There should be an excited _____ , for somewhere, directly below them, was a treasure
[023] ght before. The hangover in turn reminded him of his _____ with the weirdy, and he groaned. He went for more as
[024] led him- as the Mexican hands did. He was in earnest _____ with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.
[025] appened on the dive and by what he remembered of a _____ he had had the night before with the German, who had
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[001] rson has a different situation facing him. Some have _____ of money- some have very little money. Some are bles
[002] ronment for children. It gives them room to play and _____ of fresh air. The children can do chores adapted to
[003] e since I commenced writing .... I could tell you of _____ narrow escapes, but we take no notice of them now".
[004] I wold say I recond he did not mind it for he had a _____ more left and then they would lean to me like a sore
[005] fficer whose wife he tried to rape, a lot of men had _____ of reason heartily to dislike Marcus Reno. Many of
[006] for Weybosset Street after her murder and made it in _____ of time by using the streetcar. If he took an ear
[007] -52 bombers could drop their H-bombs. In a word, _____ . The key man almost certainly would be Col. William
[008] I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them _____ of outs was there the tiniest implication that their
[009] a professor of the mysteries of Christ". There is _____ more to recommend Gorton, the facts of whose life ar
[010] ver, and what he told the magistrates must have been _____ , for he was charged with deluding the court, fined,
[011] again tried to arbitrate. Gorton evidently still had _____ to learn about Massachusetts, but he was learning fa
[012] Dr. Glenn, I've got a lot of blood", Fred spoke up, " _____ of it. Let me give Papa blood". The doctor agreed
[013] onfiscated. _WHAT COULD A BLOCKADE ACCOMPLISH?_ _____ , say the experts. In a broad sense, it would reaffir
[014] Rachel's or Virginia's reply: "Better. He's getting _____ of rest". "Is his appetite improved"? Or: "Does h
[015] Just about to get their asses kicked into hut Seven. _____ of room there now. All those dumb 8-Balls croaked. Y
[016] on went and put his arm around her waist. "We've got _____ of time to think about that. All the time in the wor
[017] I put in new batteries so as to be certain I'd have _____ of power and on my way out walked over to the regula
[018] ou know"? Hub considered. "Some better. She's got _____ of guts, Mr. Paxton. You want me to call her"?
[019] use was modern, large, on five acres. Must have cost _____ . The State cops would check from time to time; pass
[020] loaded a tray lavishly. "Let's take it outside. It's _____ warm". "A fine idea", Mike agreed. "Warm eno
[021] ay. I'll switch on the underwater lights. That'll be _____ to eat by". "Fine". Mike liked having light up th
[022] s a little duller, a little less poignant. He had _____ of work to do. Because the summer was unusually dry
[023] y spare bedroom. The bed isn't made, but you'll find _____ of blankets there". "You're awfully kind", the gi
[024] to the other men- "We can catch him easy! There are _____ of fresh horses halfway at my place. If we let them
[025] Amelia's death. Not all of it. There would still be _____ of moments of regret and sadness and guilty relief.
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[001] Out at the airport each morning, Fogg's skilled _____ Caleb Marston would have the Waco warmed up and runn
[002] et, turns in a creditable performance as an airplane _____ . The battle of the drib-drool continues, but most
[003] the factory, where a robot reconditions it. A skilled _____ is not required to do that. Today change comes with
[004] ttorney for the loan association, in satisfaction of _____ 's liens on property on which the association held mo
[005] e right does not exist to raise ... the wages of the _____ by any forced and artificial means". Compare this
[006] vertheless, it will seem funny to have to send for a _____ to improve conversation. #@# Rembrandt's "Aristotl
[007] ate trouble. The old shop adage still holds: "A good _____ is usually a bad boss". Yet our economy clings in
[008] Out at the airport each morning, Fogg's skilled _____ Caleb Marston would have the Waco warmed up and runn
[009] et, turns in a creditable performance as an airplane _____ . The battle of the drib-drool continues, but most
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[001] ighted the Discovery limping eastward outside Galway _____ . When she reached port, she was found to have on boa
[002] og locked her up in a harbor the crew called "Lousie _____ ". The subsequent two-weeks wait made the crew quar
[003] son was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava _____ , an inlet of the great strait. After finding that it
[004] coast of the newly discovered sea (now called Hudson _____ ), confident he was on his way to the warm waters of
[005] nd west, back and forth he sailed in the land-locked _____ , plowing furiously forward until land appeared, then
[006] n resumed his desperate criss-crossing of the little _____ , every incident lessened the crew's respect for him.
[007] lay within the great northern empire of the Hudson's _____ Company, he purchased great blocks of the Comany's s
[008] as settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson _____ . Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison w
[009] s forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's _____ Company's post on Lake Traverse "in the Sieux Countr
[010] try" and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's _____ Company center was now called, late in the fall. He
[011] iver, and James Bird, a chief factor of the Hudson's _____ Company, ordered such "sundry articles" to a value o
[012] " to a value of @4,500. For its part the Hudson's _____ Company was troubled by the approach of American set
[013] uch activity in merchandise and furs to the Hudson's _____ Company, some settlers went into trade. The Company
[014] a imposed a 20 per cent duty on imports via Hudson's _____ which were viewed as aimed at the "very vitals of th
[015] ave swamped more than 1,000 ships and boats in Osaka _____ . A tsunami in the Hawaiian Islands in 1869 washed aw
[016] the seaquake from which the waves had come. In Hilo _____ they were from 21 to 26 feet high. The highest waves
[017] e disturbance. The waves of a 1923 tsunami in Sagami _____ brought to the surface and battered to death huge nu
[018] ed her first. Very slowly he maneuvered his rawboned _____ gelding, edging closer, watching for a chance to thr
[019] nd would have been able to reach the rear end of the _____ , but- and here Jones and Loveless and Ulyate were ho
[020] the pressure of chaotic things. It has held them at _____ . It realized that to admit them was to jeopardize fo
[021] Heard gave orders for the ship to be anchored in the _____ of Bengal until he could obtain the services of a re
[022] Next morning the Caravan was out of the treacherous _____ . Relieved of the major part of his responsibility fo
[023] per No. 8, the Boston American, began publication. A _____ State supporter said, "Mr. Hearst's fight has been
[024] ard Rawson, secretary of the colony of Massachusetts _____ , described him as "a man whose spirit was stark drun
[025] ht land at Pawtuxet on the west side of Narragansett _____ , five miles south but still within the jurisdiction