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DIRECTIONS: Below, you will see 10 items.
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 )
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fence
flesh
grace
liquid
rent
restaurant
sad
sympathy
twist
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2. WORDS
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[001] st was in league with her and her child ... that its _____ lay with the Culvers ... that she had erred in faili
[002] eeling coltish again too, gal". At these words of _____ and understanding, Harmony said generously, "I don't
[003] wledge to her husband, his lack of understanding and _____ in her present condition, her disgusting swollen sto
[004] authority, was shocked to find himself looking with _____ upon Philip Spencer. This tragic lad had forged his
[005] as up and about, and before Millie detained him with _____ . He entered the hallway. He was actually walking
[006] This was a very warm, sympathetic girl, he decided. _____ is a fine quality in a woman. Now Vivian, for instan
[007] woman. Now Vivian, for instance, was not too long on _____ . She felt, and said, that
3. WORDS
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[001] aunting qualities. Even people. And my point in this _____ story is the spirit of the matter. When you hold the
[002] mean what I said. The stranger's eyes were large and _____ , as if Phil Haney had hurt his feelings. It was like
[003] face or voice. Pete frowned slightly, then became _____ and moody. Haney didn't want to encourage his compan
[004] he equator, one has discorporated and the others are _____ ". Yes, I heard it in the news". Mike had not
[005] he had not known it until asked. "They should not be _____ . Mr. Booker T. W. Jones Food Technician First Class
[006] ooker T. W. Jones Food Technician First Class is not _____ ; the Old Ones have cherished him". "You knew hi
[007] as he kicked the horse into motion, "I'd be a mighty _____ man if we never met again". Then he was on his
4. WORDS
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[001] back in his corner. A little thing, but the right _____ for the action that counted. Hot, that was the word,
[002] ption, the lack of self- consciousness, but with a _____ that made the forms leap from the page and smack you
[003] irst time she could share movies with her family. A _____ on that technique will allow travelers to communicate
[004] ently conformist block conceals a surprisingly exotic _____ . Architecture Page 17 891018 Architecture Update: Ar
[005] this case via drugs, but with an extra metaphysical _____ when the spirit of the departed returns to inhabit his
[006] Love Pains" and, rather curiously, Tanita Tikaram's " _____ In My Sobriety", presumably reprised as a nod to Liz
[007] ncores. Like so much of the show, it gave a touching _____ to the common run of things; it was as if he couldn't
5. WORDS
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[001] e Boulevard divider. There was a small, neon-lighted _____ and cocktail lounge on the southeast corner of the i
[002] back to the Boulevard and north a block to the open _____ . He was standing at the end of the bar enjoying a
[003] used to work on a ranch. Sharon, she's cooked in a _____ . We'll work hard, Mr. Morgan". "I'll see", Morgan
[004] t let him go, following more leisurely. At the first _____ he sensibly pulled up to go in for his dinner, and a
[005] uently that my Uncle and Aunt had dinner in a nearby _____ in the French Quarter after which he went home to ge
[006] nd that we could go to a theater together, or a nice _____ , forget we knew ..." He stopped speaking. "Forg
[007] aid to digestion, as a complement to a good meal in a _____ , and for taste. Municipal tap water is often treated
6. WORDS
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[001] rded papers inside were sodden, there was a glint of _____ at the bottom, and the smell of whisky was strong an
[002] ere before this demoniac possession swallowed up the _____ of her eyes and sank into the fibers of her brain, d
[003] ign of the river now, just a roiling, oily ribbon of _____ movement through muddy waters that reached everywher
[004] o remove dissolved minerals and then recondensed to _____ form. Sparkling water is naturally carbonated due t
[005] . Ultrasonic waves are introduced into small tanks of _____ into which objects, such as jewelry, surgical instrum
[006] ll machinery are placed for cleaning. Bubbling of the _____ as well as the vibrations result in a powerful cleani
[007] attler. He milks the venom from its fangs, drains the _____ into a shot glass and downs it as if it were as smoo
7. WORDS
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[001] ook Sprite the kitten under her arm- "so that Auntie _____ can teach it about the whistle"- and climbed into th
[002] neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to _____ and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impu
[003] remembered little of her previous journey there with _____ , and she could but hope that her dedication to her m
[004] ips glisten but no redder than usual. The result was _____ and modesty. As she was rather tired this evening, h
[005] peeding arrow from the taut bow, hurtling with a mad _____ , his maleness shining and scented with meadow rue. H
[006] Gord, to bless this food"- that was Victoria saying _____ while the baby sprayed raisin toast on her plastic b
[007] only different- he was it. He had an easy masculine _____ about him, the kind that kids don't have, but that I
8. WORDS
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[001] nal, as unremarkable as its occupant. In Dunston the _____ would run close to two hundred a month; in Medfield,
[002] and occupy the same suite- 1105". "Will the hotel _____ it so soon after the crime"? "Why not? The police
[003] t particular suite". "Still, they may not want to _____ it". "That's your headache. Once inside, keep you
[004] hing and decorations would have paid the Brush-off's _____ for a year. He was fifteen years older than I- forty
[005] else they were two months behind on their apartment _____ , and the day Wally received written notice that he w
[006] ad in a California paper that advertised "House for _____ . View takes in five counties, two bedrooms". Si
[007] e Federal Government has sharply curtailed Section 8 _____ subsidies for the poor, which make up the difference
9. WORDS
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[001] s meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of _____ . I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one o
[002] to advertisements can trigger a process of social _____ , in which a person tries to evaluate his or her self
[003] the people shown in advertising images. This form of _____ appears to be a basic human motive, and many markete
[004] oducts. 9 A recent study illustrates how this social _____ process works. The study showed that female college
[005] the Aral Sea. They based this calculation on a simple _____ of economic gains from irrigated agriculture against
[006] lso illustrates well the competing forms of adjective _____ in contemporary spoken English that we will discuss
[007] h that we will discuss here. The topic of adjective _____ has been discussed in general terms in most of the g
10. WORDS
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[001] s right. There was a thick, squashy crack of fist on _____ . Something hard grazed his knuckles. He put every
[002] ke plans to hide among the frozen crop of transmuted _____ . Far long ago, some other prisoner than one of th
[003] in a knot over the veranda post and patted the warm _____ of his neck. The mare had backed away. "You take it
[004] xamine Mike's wound. The bullet had torn through the _____ just above the knee, inflicting an ugly gash that wa
[005] st point blank and an Indian's face became shattered _____ and bone. A second leaped from his horse to the top
[006] her blouse and slid down her body, seeping into her _____ through all the quivering pores of her skin. It craw
[007] r years; others still had whitened shreds of decayed _____ sticking to them. There was one object which si