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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 )
alive
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2. WORDS
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[001] 4 yards passing (on 5 completions in 7 tosses) and a _____ defense to whip TCU, and A+ M, with a 38-point bul
[002] old war who, in Mr. Kennedy's own words, is "shrewd, _____ , vigorous, well-informed and confident", and a 44-ye
[003] s, cab drivers and bellboys, but with dealers he was _____ . He bought up Cezannes, Braques, Matisses, Legers, a
[004] e than six years. "Said Secretary Hodges: 'It's a _____ combination for the U.S. to face'. "Olivetti ha
[005] he pro-Communist rebel force numbers only some 2,000 _____ Viet Minh guerrilla fighters. But for the United Sta
[006] and its SEATO allies to attempt to shore up a less _____ , less combat-tested government army in monsoon-shrou
[007] many individuals generously. He himself seems to be _____ , tireless, able and intelligent, more intellectual a
[008] hog with deadly efficiency; these are fairly large, _____ animals. The deadliness of the .44 Magnum in a ri
[009] at the district, region or headquarters level, is a _____ job today- and it will be tougher in the future. Men
[010] ren't you cold"? became "Yes, the first half hour is _____ , but by then I'm so numb I don't notice it"! As
[011] stationed in Georgia wrote in 1864: "I expect to be _____ as a knott as soon as I get over the Georgia Shitts"
[012] ieftain of a Jewish gang and one of four brothers of _____ reputation, who were Hirschey, a gambler-politician
3. WORDS
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[001] ving struck a bone with sufficient force to produce a _____ concussion. Herbert was deadly pale, and his pulse so
[002] of the 8th of December, Herbert was seized by a more _____ delirium. His liver was fearfully congested, his bra
[003] a thousand confused thoughts, under the influence of _____ excitement, waited all night, without leaving Ayrton'
[004] crater. But would the subterranean fires provoke any _____ eruption? This was an event which could not be forese
[005] rus Harding stood up in the bows. He gazed, a prey to _____ excitement. Then, all at once, seizing the reporter's
[006] ere, saturated with electricity, was only cleared by _____ storms. It was rarely that the distant growling of th
[007] ort of rinforzando, and died slowly away, as if some _____ storm had passed through the profundities of the glo
[008] scratches. When police arrived the man was still _____ , Slate said. #ATTACKS OFFICER# He attacked one o
[009] ment (Sunday's fourth round had been washed out by a _____ rainstorm when it was only half completed), Player's
[010] ace under the United Nations banner have instead met _____ death at the hands of Congolese troops supposedly th
[011] drama, but the response was mainly hostile and quite _____ . The new "School for Wives" was interpreted accor
[012] kofieff emerges. One might have expected that such a _____ epoch of transition would have destroyed the creativ
4. WORDS
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[001] s could have happened if Captain Nemo had been still _____ ?" "Certainly, Neb," answered Cyrus Harding. "I, for
[002] off. The only way Fiedler could get back to earth _____ was to fly the pulse jet missile and land it on the
[003] ndicates that that old spirit is just as stultifying _____ today as it ever was; that its presentation in this
[004] ok over a number of dying steel plants and kept them _____ until the boom. Even before he hit big money, he had
[005] that one must cherish the people's spirit but "Keep _____ their attention". "If once they become inattentiv
[006] that concern for Christian unity is still very much _____ and growing within the Church. The establishment, by
[007] ticles but something midway between. The only man _____ who seems qualified by his learning, his disposition
[008] otary or the Ku Klux Klan. Every community, if it is _____ has a spirit, and that spirit is the center of its u
[009] it came into it. It is they, of course, who keep it _____ and preserve it so the same spirit will continue to
[010] e professional use- brings the psychiatric interview _____ so that the full range of emotion and meaning can be
[011] ncer of the lung. Yes, Tom caught it in time to stay _____ . But he's a welfare case now- a human wreck- thanks
[012] to Mr. Morse's advantage to have Mr. and Mrs. Borden _____ . Both he and Bridget were exonerated by Lizzie herse
5. WORDS
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[001] nt and that plain talk by Mr. Kennedy would give him _____ . Apart from the personal equation, another reason
[002] was making headlines that could well give Pittsburgh _____ . On display were 343 first-class paintings and sculp
[003] re remarkably elaborate for a road-show that doesn't _____ long in any one place, and they are devised so that
[004] songs a little too melodramatic. There was an extra _____ here, a gasp or a sigh there, here and there an extr
[005] exercise, done in individual sets with a bit longer _____ between sets. By this time Henri's entire chest-back
[006] usual U.S. norm would be: **f Middle pitches, slight _____ (juncture) before mother, slight rise at the end. Th
[007] be heard from the wounded below decks. THERE IS a _____ in the merriment as your friends gaze at you, wonder
[008] dedicated as a church in the seventh century. As you _____ in the piazza by the Egyptian obelisk brought from t
[009] somewhat is becoming more evident. Although the _____ in the advance of general business activity this yea
[010] ssary for reciting long stretches of verse without a _____ . The poet in a written tradition who generally never
[011] who generally never blots a line may once in a while _____ and polish without incurring blame. But the oral poe
[012] sh without incurring blame. But the oral poet cannot _____ ; he must improvise continuously with no apparent eff
6. WORDS
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[001] er almost 18 hours of political bargaining under the _____ of an army coup d'etat. By-passing the military j
[002] ations in this hemisphere. Its the start of a direct _____ to our own security and I don't believe we can permi
[003] fred E. Perlman said Tuesday his line would face the _____ of bankruptcy if the Chesapeake + Ohio and Baltimore
[004] ustrated individual can do about Communism's growing _____ on our doorstep and around the world? More than
[005] ns Committee, he holds over each member the dreadful _____ of excluding this or that congressional district fro
[006] home runs, a closing spurt never matched. #DOUBLE _____ :# Always, in the abortive attacks upon Ruth's record
[007] ntle and Maris, their team is the Yankees, and their _____ is real. After 108 games in 1927, Ruth had 35 hom
[008] en Mary. The British government, concerned about the _____ of unemployment in the shipbuilding industry, had pu
[009] d he had No. 2's enough to last two weeks more. _____ of closing the cannery is a recent one. A three-man
[010] proposals, to sign a peace treaty with Germany as a _____ , as part of the world menace allegedly looming over
[011] en Mr. Khrushchev made his cynical and irresponsible _____ . Shock, dismay and foreboding for future generations
[012] urse has dilated it and pain is no longer a possible _____ against the full pleasure of love-making. In fa
7. WORDS
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[001] ced with great caution. They walked a little distance _____ from each other so as to offer a less mark for a shot
[002] Ayrton, Pencroft, Herbert, and Neb stood respectfully _____ in an angle of the magnificent saloon, whose atmosph
[003] owards his companions, from whom he had gone somewhat _____ , he said,-- "The truth is, my friends, we must not co
[004] bills. They would still be paid by the patient. _____ from the aged care plan the President's most ambitio
[005] s was severly injured today when a bomb tore his car _____ as he left home for work. Battalion Chief Stant
[006] plain talk by Mr. Kennedy would give him pause. _____ from the personal equation, another reason advanced
[007] would seem to represent esprit de corps run riot. _____ , however, from the question of wasteful duplication,
[008] division. Of all the records in peril, one stands _____ , dramatic in its making, dramatic in its endurance,
[009] se policies of the Eisenhhower Administration, quite _____ from the recent crises in Berlin and elsewhere. Four
[010] College to find a suitable replacement for me. Even _____ from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal
[011] akers preferably placed at least seven or eight feet _____ , and one or more of the new London "Phase 4" records
[012] m a fact sheet. What sets Negro-appeal programing _____ from other radio shows? Sponsor magazine notes the s
8. WORDS
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[001] s anti-Communist section, the Batista regime did not _____ the Communists so much as more open opponents who we
[002] from her in this kind of ground .... Careful, don't _____ her". ## Jones had been about a hundred and fifty
[003] feet in irritation, as much as to say: "How dare you _____ me in my sacred precinct"? Intuition told him, ho
[004] rse Winner" is a fantasy with extraordinary power to _____ the reader- but we do not know why. It is the story
[005] hat would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and _____ the effects of the work if it were made explicit. Th
[006] avorite pieces and feeling close to him, and did not _____ her. All the rest of the days in the White Hous
[007] to mark the following century had not yet begun to _____ men's minds. Throughout the work of the later nin
[008] er learning they may have had in their order doesn't _____ them now. Missail is the straight man, not very t
[009] eeled out of Ma Murphy's dance hall and proceeded to _____ the peace by shooting off his revolver. FOR SEVERA
[010] of the Law specifies) toward impious folk who steal, _____ , or maltreat the Presence. Very peculiar retribution
[011] e rate three times as high. But the crimes that most _____ residents are brazen carjackings, hijackings and ro
[012] s inoffensiveness and reassurance, its promise not to _____ . It creates the appearance of continuity even when th
9. WORDS
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[001] ted his failing strength. The engineer felt his heart _____ painfully. He still hesitated to give the signal for
[002] lthough egress is impossible, the vessel may at least _____ in the abyss, and there bury my remains." The colonis
[003] nto the reservoirs, and the 'Nautilus' will gradually _____ beneath the water to repose at the bottom of the abys
[004] h he later admitted that he had) Palmer proceeded to _____ his 25-footer, and his gallery sent its explosive vo
[005] t the total cost for the hull with Fiberglas bottom, _____ , head and hardware was under $800. A comparable manu
[006] one under a removable section of the port bunk. The _____ in the hinged panel above the bunk drains into the
[007] llon water tank is mounted on the bulkhead above the _____ . For padding the seats and bunks, I used Ensolite, T
[008] pool being our lingo for those who come to swim and _____ into our bar while protesting that they can only dun
[009] ore true than anything else? To swim is true, and to _____ is true. One is not more true than the other. One ca
[010] ich Village fourth-flight walk-up. "The place had no _____ or washbasin, only a bathtub", his mother discovered
[011] ed into heat and transferred to the surrounding heat _____ . This means that work equals q which in turn equals
[012] floating platform and caused the entire platform to _____ lower in the water. The added resistance to the roto
10. WORDS
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[001] Harding was not mistaken. At Jup's neck hung a small _____ , and in this
[002] , and in this _____ was found a little note traced by Neb's hand. The de
[003] ossible sprained knee. His losses included his money _____ , containing $40 to $50 and his $214 paycheck. R
[004] e CTA supervisor. As he left the bus with his money _____ , Robinson added, the largest youth accosted him, a q
[005] pment to work. You can take it with you ... a picnic _____ , a grill, a cooler for soft drinks and beer, and for
[006] forward roll. This used to be part of every child's _____ of tricks, but few children can do it today; some ar
[007] mblers, she slipped away from the casino, packed her _____ and took the night train to Paris. No one ever learn
[008] ssmate Jimmy, from next door, let the cat out of the _____ . The youngsters in the boys' class had nicknamed Dic
[009] t and a ten-gallon hat from Texas. From his shoulder _____ peeked the seven-inch barrel of a Luger. The te
[010] y toss coins; he may take slips of paper from a grab _____ . The answers derived by these means may determine no
[011] d and squeezed that they burst like a blown-up paper _____ ; bright flowers from the trumpet vine that made "glo
[012] ring applause: "Pay ransom to the owner and fill the _____ to the brim. Who is the owner? The slave is owner,