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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 )
accuse
angry
confused
frequently
frightened
knock
loud
permanent
row
shade
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2. WORDS
accuse
angry
confused
frequently
frightened
knock
loud
permanent
row
shade
[001] iano was partially open, Mr. Jenni's playing was too _____ . In vying with him, Mr. D'Albert also seemed to be o
[002] ing ship pulled into New Orleans. His horn has blown _____ and clear across the land for more years than he car
[003] she hears words or sounds: "There's such a noise of _____ machinery", or "I hear a child crying", or "He says
[004] s, however- now that even plain people could afford " _____ speakers" on their sets- held old fans to the major-
[005] orials, speeches, and civil-rights commissions are _____ in the land, demanding to know what happened. What h
[006] ett's name came into the discussion, the priest grew _____ and told me that Beckett "hates life". That, I thoug
[007] ), David Karp's One (1953), Wilson Tucker's The Long _____ Silence (1952), Jack Vance's To Live Forever (1956),
3. WORDS
accuse
angry
confused
frequently
frightened
knock
loud
permanent
row
shade
[001] ture of Patrice Lumumba caused constant problems- he _____ announced that he wanted the U.N. to get out of the
[002] Success, for many turnpikes, has come hard. Traffic _____ has failed to measure up to engineers' rosy estimate
[003] l crewel embroidery which seems to be appearing more _____ this fall than in the past few years is still availa
[004] ranslations of the Bible. However, Biblical scholars _____ attested to its numerous inaccuracies, as old manusc
[005] general reader in contemporary language than in the _____ archaic words and phrases of the King James. Fo
[006] duced as printed in each version.) Among the most _____ quoted Biblical sentences are the Beatitudes and yet
[007] One of those delightful surprise additions, which so _____ occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at th
4. WORDS
accuse
angry
confused
frequently
frightened
knock
loud
permanent
row
shade
[001] the United States should stand. We should not become _____ or let our public become
[002] or let our public become _____ over irrelevant questions of number or even of geogr
[003] his mother's disapproval. But explanations leave him _____ and unmoved. If his mother loves him, he clings t
[004] t appearing. The 15th Street deposit is not to be _____ with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp
[005] nnot be successfully separated, but they dare not be _____ or identified. The repeated efforts in Christian his
[006] ally incapable of rolling forward and are completely _____ when not sitting or standing upright. For most small
[007] second-hand reports. All told, they offered a highly _____ picture. But since 1927, researchers digging into
5. WORDS
accuse
angry
confused
frequently
frightened
knock
loud
permanent
row
shade
[001] , but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a _____ otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, th
[002] anded, had sailed 300 miles up the strait before his _____ men turned the ship back. Hudson now proposed to sai
[003] lled passageway- and the crew, at first uneasy, then _____ , rebelled. The trouble was at least partly Juet
[004] sful, too, for just before the moon disappeared, the _____ toad had begun to spit it out again, which meant goo
[005] ia or Burma that November. She was more excited than _____ at the prospect of having her first child in a forei
[006] rsel it glanced right and left and winced, obviously _____ and expecting a kick, but too hungry not to snatch t
[007] ere was such longing and such simple sadness that it _____ me. Later, when I was older, I found the song was pa
6. WORDS
accuse
angry
confused
frequently
frightened
knock
loud
permanent
row
shade
[001] department. The capital budget, for construction of _____ improvements, becomes an appropriating document inst
[002] hev promised upon grabbing power, and try to end the _____ recession in Russian living standards. Chairman
[003] f life. Suppose he did lie beside Lenin, would it be _____ ? If some future Khrushchev decided to rake up the mi
[004] Church. The establishment, by the Holy Father, of a _____ Secretariat for Christian Unity in 1960 was the most
[005] are open free of charge the year round, and the 192 _____ employes make sure that not a dead or wilted flower
[006] dicator, and then photographs the screen to obtain a _____ record. A typical "sonogram" of a human eye, toge
[007] ate buys one acre, Buries its tanks and simply holds _____ title to that piece. In other words, the whole stora
7. WORDS
accuse
angry
confused
frequently
frightened
knock
loud
permanent
row
shade
[001] this optimism. Dr. Conant has come away shocked and _____ . His new book, entitled "Slums and Suburbs", calls f
[002] he religious groups of the city were embroiled in an _____ dispute over the alleged invasion of a man's right t
[003] ago, not the gentler ones of today, and this one was _____ , with good reason. Loveless, too, objected. "It won'
[004] d wearisome procedures in equity. In a long and _____ footnote to his opinion, Judge Hough had lent the we
[005] attitude of German youth comparable to that of "the _____ young men' of England"? was the topic for a round-ta
[006] be classified as uninterested and bored rather than _____ . I was far from convinced of the truth of my stateme
[007] n to the fundamental decencies of human life, but no _____ utopian contentions. Actually, you could wish for so
8. WORDS
accuse
angry
confused
frequently
frightened
knock
loud
permanent
row
shade
[001] tion of a heel is found on teenage pumps. #COOLEST _____ # While white is the coolest summer
[002] # While white is the coolest summer _____ , there are lots of pastel hues along with tintable f
[003] ill no one who can touch her. If the voice is just a _____ less glorious than it used to be, it is still a beau
[004] wer freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and _____ brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense o
[005] he year except the frigid ones. Give them food, some _____ , mulch, water and more food, and they'll repay your
[006] is to find an area that is predominantly sunlight or _____ . In any instance, you should determine the exposure
[007] naps and hot meals, and be put to bed on schedule in _____ -darkened rooms. You'll sleep longer and better, too,
9. WORDS
accuse
angry
confused
frequently
frightened
knock
loud
permanent
row
shade
[001] with a wallop equal to 100 million tons of TNT, to _____ sense into the heads of those backward oafs who can'
[002] ugh at hell. It is permitted. The eternal Christ may _____ at your soul's door, calling you to give up sin and
[003] Him. He has said, "Behold, I stand at the door, and _____ : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will
[004] "The Yankees keep Shooting so I am afraid they will _____ over my ink, so I will close". #/3,# The most comm
[005] and according to Gorton the soldiers were ordered to _____ down anyone who should utter a word of insolence, an
[006] d of some that tried it back in the States, and he'd _____ them clear across the room. There'd been a pretty ba
[007] usly unconscious of its passage until an unwelcome _____ on the door interrupted the processes of nature. Sta
10. WORDS
accuse
angry
confused
frequently
frightened
knock
loud
permanent
row
shade
[001] this protection is at least as concrete as, say, the _____ of hotels that bars us from our own sands at Miami B
[002] Chairman Khrushchev and John McCloy had a terrible _____ at Sochi. See, Communese is easy- once you get on
[003] saving no one? Would the man with an empty life boat _____ away from a shipwreck because his boat could not pic
[004] ure there; Catholic seminarians attend tutorials and _____ on the Cherwell with non-Catholic students. Fur
[005] ot too important. However, we started with the first _____ of bars and worked our way back. Since the same meth
[006] @". It is used to separate two or more numbers in a _____ . For example: **f Numbers to be multiplied together
[007] ul of this sauce was made and placed at the end of a _____ of four other kegs in the cellar, so that when its t