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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.
Which
word/phrase fits all the gaps in each set? (Corpus=corpus_awl.txt )
absolute
afraid
breath
cards
chain
proud
shoe
sick
thoroughly
yellow
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2. WORDS
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[001] by British traders. Mobile was to be the anchor of a _____ of posts extending northward to the sources of the T
[002] ney General Rogers and the heads of certain national _____ stores should, of course, be applauded. But for it t
[003] to justify an economic boycott of an entire national _____ in order, by threatening potential injury to its ent
[004] s of direct economic action everywhere upon national _____ stores will likely be simply to give undue advantage
[005] er and to reduce it as quickly as possible. The _____ starts at BMEWS (Ballistic Missile Early Warning Sy
[006] Multiple circuits, routings and frequencies make the _____ as unbreakable as possible. The same principle
[007] om the past. Both I and my feelings come up out of a _____ of events that fan out into the past into sources th
[008] op of which dangled a little red bag ornamented by a _____ of worsted lace and tassels; broad red stripes down
[009] of the draft of soldiers; from the General's idea a _____ reaction occurred. Wood took the proposal to Chief o
[010] ch as grace, damnation, purgation, blasphemy, or the _____ of being, which are everywhere implicit in classic
[011] hydrocarbons and fats (esters of glycerol with long- _____ organic acids). _3._ Stains, which include th
[012] ere is little polymerization or agglomeration of the _____ anions below a certain region of concentration calle
3. WORDS
absolute
afraid
breath
cards
chain
proud
shoe
sick
thoroughly
yellow
[001] ch was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a "high _____ gal" smooching with a white man. It is true, of cour
[002] e "gold-phone circuit". A system of "gold"- actually _____ - phones connects him with the offices and action sta
[003] s also a dog, a dingo dog. Its ribs showed, it was a _____ nondescript color, it suffered from a variety of sor
[004] separated from each other by spandrels of blue and _____ tile. At either end and in the center there are bays
[005] , stones, and small creatures, living and dead. Pale _____ snapdragons that by pinching could be made to bite;
[006] that snapped like fire-crackers at a touch; red-and- _____ columbines whose round-tipped spurs were picked off
[007] lean, and the parasols, green, raspberry, and butter _____ , are very gay. Although open to the general public i
[008] lization. Persons, whether white, black, brown or _____ , are a concern of God. Respect for personality is a
[009] honeybees, exhibiting various combinations of black, _____ , white and orange. Let us not try to key them out at
[010] a full pollen load looks like a gay little piece of _____ down floating in the wind. Closely related to t
[011] he right coronary artery was virtually occluded by a _____ atheromatous plaque 1.5 cm. distal to its origin. Th
[012] 7.5 cm. area. The valves were normal except for thin _____ plaques on the inferior surface of the mitral leafle
4. WORDS
absolute
afraid
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cards
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proud
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sick
thoroughly
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[001] and halt. The next stage ahead is that of making it _____ at home in the local community. Progress will take p
[002] took on the manager of his club and worked him over _____ with his fists. he was given to public carousing and
[003] is Southern. It would not be easy to discover a more _____ Southern pedigree than that of his family. And, afte
[004] and Ted Koehler easily stand far out above the rest. _____ modern in treatment, they are at the same time, full
[005] here a couple of times to swim and enjoyed ourselves _____ . This agreeable state of affairs is explicable, I th
[006] enterprise by 1577, and, in the opinion of many, a _____ bad business. Aroused by what they considered an evi
[007] ever be my example as a true statesman; one who is _____ human, who affects no dignity, and who is endowed wi
[008] pe which fulfills the requirements was developed and _____ tested. The transducer is a null-type instrument and
[009] in, however, just by talk. A naval blockade would be _____ in line with the Monroe Doctrine, would be a relativ
[010] dent, the academic dean also investigates candidates _____ . At some colleges and universities, a faculty com
[011] mportance of particle size in such aerosols has been _____ demonstrated. The natural anatomical and physiologic
[012] ssary to examine the relevant parts of the phonology _____ and in detail. In the process, he develops some very
5. WORDS
absolute
afraid
breath
cards
chain
proud
shoe
sick
thoroughly
yellow
[001] ies of Britain. It is extraordinary that a people as _____ and warlike as Southerners should have been as docil
[002] impossible to convey in words. It has nothing of the _____ stride of the trained runner about it, it is not a l
[003] ee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by _____ Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four
[004] ance. Nor does Carl reject this identity. He is _____ of having Segovia for a friend and dedicated a poem
[005] colors. By both standards Thomas had the right to be _____ . Thomas thanked his men for their tenacity of pur
[006] is chest to show his excellent condition, and looked _____ . The doctor gravely nodded approval. At this mo
[007] ruff was now impaled on the horns of a dilemma. As a _____ man, his prestige would suffer if he let Pike dictat
[008] called him an arch-heretic, a beast, a miscreant, a _____ and pestilent seducer, a prodigious minter of exorbi
[009] d under the Speakership of SAM RAYBURN. Of this I am _____ . I have a distinct admiration for this man we honor
[010] as Speaker twice as long as any predecessor and I am _____ to join with others in marking this date, and in exp
[011] st follow in Papa's footsteps. He was fortunate, and _____ . The veterans, idling on their benches in the Squ
[012] efore his life as a POW began. It was a word he was _____ of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it wi
6. WORDS
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[001] nder heavy strain. It provides pastoral care for the _____ and troubled. It helps children grow up with at leas
[002] guests. They learn how to take care of children and _____ members of the family. They have model kitchens, a
[003] members of the family. They have model kitchens, a _____ room with a model patient in bed, and a nursery with
[004] be, and Alfred understood. Alfred was getting too _____ to stay in his own home. The doctor wanted him in a
[005] My own diet in London eighteen weeks, in which I was _____ a month; my mare at coming up 14 days; another I bou
[006] for a "proletariat" that included "all the lost and _____ and hunted of the earth". Patchen believes that the
[007] es if they otherwise qualify. (See Chapter 10.) _____ pay, if included in your Gross Income, is deducted i
[008] ducted in arriving at Adjusted Gross Income. If your _____ pay is not included in your Gross Income, you may no
[009] "Revolution"; the belligerent denunciations by the _____ fanatics of ignorance who try to build a papier-mache
[010] tion from Dr. Verdi. Secretary of State Seward was a _____ man. The idea had come from Herold, who had once bee
[011] rom Herold, who had once been a chemist's clerk. The _____ were always receiving medicines. No one would ques
[012] ring a way to what he had to do. He ran for the _____ room, found his pistol was broken, and threw it away
7. WORDS
absolute
afraid
breath
cards
chain
proud
shoe
sick
thoroughly
yellow
[001] ew back with a start, and put finger to lips, almost _____ to move or whisper lest it set her off, "The dogs ha
[002] the circumstance that we are probably not much more _____ of people now than man ever was. We are not now
[003] of people now than man ever was. We are not now _____ of atomic bombs in the same way that people once fea
[004] imself did not know, as he said in 1935. But he was " _____ of the future- he would in fact welcome a way back t
[005] loves; if one bullies, they say it is because one is _____ ; if one shuns, they say it is because one desires; a
[006] throat. I had developed too foolproof a facade to be _____ of self-betrayal. What I fled from was my fear of wh
[007] Mrs. Coolidge more than the other maids. But she was _____ the First Lady would not understand, because Rob Roy
[008] ittle too good to be true. One of the people who was _____ of Alfred was his own brother, Lew. I don't know how
[009] on purpose, trying to prove to myself that I am not _____ of sentiment. So much for all that. The English
[010] t might be postulated that these subjects are unduly _____ of being wrong; that they perceive new internal and
[011] ger stress on to. In I wanted to tell him, but I was _____ to the final to is lightly stressed because it repre
[012] ers increase. _4._ Ridiculing a child for being _____ or forcing him to meet the feared situation alone ar
8. WORDS
absolute
afraid
breath
cards
chain
proud
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thoroughly
yellow
[001] ed with the need to formulate policy on the level of _____ justice, can find the answer to its problem in the
[002] justice, can find the answer to its problem in the _____ truth which it holds as partially experienced. This,
[003] ience of truth is confused and incoherent: it has no _____ standard, and consequently cannot distinguish the
[004] standard, and consequently cannot distinguish the _____ from the contingent. It has lost its ground of being
[005] rst time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed _____ unity of command under her favorite Giaour. Potemkin
[006] hose of the king, Edward's confidence in them was so _____ that they were made the acknowledged leaders of the
[007] in political science that one can devotedly and with _____ dedication represent the seemingly provincial intere
[008] and accomplishments fall into three main categories: _____ thermometry based upon the velocity of sound in heli
[009] 2.1 **f. Such an interferometer provides a means of _____ temperature measurement, and may be used as an alter
[010] ll have been received by such person, it shall be an _____ bar to recovery by any other person against the Unit
[011] ould be additional. The shelter would provide almost _____ fallout protection. _PRE-SHAPED METAL SHELTER_
[012] s shelter, as shown on page 24, would provide almost _____ protection from fallout radiation. An alternate hatc
9. WORDS
absolute
afraid
breath
cards
chain
proud
shoe
sick
thoroughly
yellow
[001] ghorns, and a thorough "tailin'" usually knocked the _____ out of a steer, and so dazed 'im that he'd behave fo
[002] sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of _____ , to the crest, and peering through the branches of a
[003] and here Jones and Loveless and Ulyate were holding _____ for all they were worth- she never quite caught up t
[004] down full bottles of illicit gin without pausing for _____ . One young man, exhilarated to the point of insanity
[005] termined subjectively: "the Heart, by the way of the _____ , to the Line". The test of form is fidelity to the e
[006] owever. For him Mercer produced the lyric to "Out of _____ Scared to Death of You", introduced in that most suc
[007] e battlements at Mycenae, the coming of dawn has its _____ of miracle. It banishes the night wanderers to fire
[008] d. The conventions into which the romantics tried to _____ life no longer corresponded to the realities of thou
[009] ng, its phrases irregularly broken as if gasping for _____ , but when the police with their cudgels move away, t
[010] friends, but never really drawing a deep, passionate _____ , was so like himself. He, and Mrs. Dalloway, too, ha
[011] n washed out the eye. Beth was very still and her _____ came in small jerking gasps. The thin legs twitched
[012] r. He was no heavier than a child. Watson paused for _____ . The man wheezed weakly, his fetid
10. WORDS
absolute
afraid
breath
cards
chain
proud
shoe
sick
thoroughly
yellow
[001] edate institutional type virtually to the proverbial _____ -string operator, all seeking doggedly, studiously, d
[002] own was transferred from C. B. Carleton's to Young's _____ store. A small single switchboard was installed i
[003] essed in her best lace-drawn black silk, her jeweled _____ buckles held forward. "Well, I'm here at last", s
[004] rchief through the window. Finding the key under his _____ , he started the engine, and while it warmed up he tu
[005] ully ground it to nothing with the sole of his heavy _____ . Now he looked at her. He said, "I only work here".
[006] o hazy and uncertain. With Ramey it was a dusty work _____ that was half-off the Indian's foot that he would al
[007] the top. The slightest twitch would have parted the _____ entirely from the foot, yet the toes were still insi
[008] les. Look at them". "They're an expensive English _____ for walking around a lot. I like them". "Sam, n
[009] ankie sat down on the bench again. Phil took off one _____ and stared at it. "Don't take it like this", Fr
[010] e in the dress department and was transferred to the _____ department. When a customer asked for alligator shoe
[011] hirteen hundred retail outlets belonging to The U.S. _____ Corporation have been testing the program in conjunc
[012] pecially poor. The grand plan to segment the British _____ Corporation's 22 per cent market share into four sec