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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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[001] - The Prince. ## Catherine's first war against the _____ Turk had ended in 1774 with a peace treaty quite fav
[002] t her go, and appeared himself before the Portsmouth _____ jury. During the trial he told off the jury, called
[003] rse the Soviet threat was responsible for NATO, the _____ alliance of the Atlantic nations. New organs of u
[004] of strength. He has become in this half century the _____ old man of American history. It seems to me that the
[005] cago, Ill., the Portland Cement Association, 33 West _____ Avenue, Chicago, Ill., and the Structural Clay Produ
[006] om of God, which involves social life as part of the _____ Design. This explains some group ends and provides
[007] rcial, industrial power, street lighting, etc. This " _____ division" permits many costs to be assigned in their
3. WORDS
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[001] rs whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party _____ . To old-line Democrats, the Hearst Presidential b
[002] volumes of the Victoria County Histories raised the _____ from the status of an antiquarian pastime to that of
[003] to investigate lurid newspaper stories about lack of _____ , drunkenness, and venereal disease in American mil
[004] security and status rather than with sacrifice, self- _____ , and competence. American policy should press con
[005] o sociology, since the former is a logical, rational _____ , where sociology is essentially descriptive and empi
[006] s emergent at the borderlands of each new scientific _____ , philosophy can offer the sort of distinction that c
[007] rld War /2, abstract expressionists, apostles of the _____ of spontaneity and hazard, look alike, and do look l
4. WORDS
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[001] es one never imagined possible, there is an implicit _____ in differentiation. The reader, observing this proce
[002] lly moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first _____ in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.
[003] d it had a profound effect on him. Once he learned a _____ , he never forgot it. In the next few months of compa
[004] small-town minister who staged an impressive object _____ by confining a lion and a lamb together in the same
[005] hole county were enormously impressed by this object _____ . One day he was visited by a delegation of would-be
[006] rience of action had also taught him a more positive _____ . "For six years my father had had to do too much com
[007] tle or no machinery, means a great deal. That is the _____ of the nineteenth century. A realistic "concert
5. WORDS
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[001] aid a fellow I'd met on an August morning in Margaree _____ , a one- lighthouse village on Cape Breton's western
[002] highlands to the Northumberland Strait and Margaree _____ ; there it turns north along the coast, up and across
[003] relaxing at the minimalist Duck Cove Inn in Margaree _____ , weighing the natural options - Canoe the Margaree?
6. WORDS
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[001] l aspirant had advertised his own virtues in his own _____ of newspapers spanning the land. Yet his editor
[002] a boy and a loose-jointed walk that reminded me of a _____ of beads strolling down the street. And she had the
[003] nd, the Glee Club, and smaller ensembles of wind and _____ players. All students are invited to participate
[004] institutional type virtually to the proverbial shoe- _____ operator, all seeking doggedly, studiously, daily- a
[005] "Put a few such songs together", they urged him. " _____ them onto some sort of little plot, and you'll have
[006] ill, ran through her spoken words like a thin ragged _____ . "Please come down as soon as you conveniently can",
[007] nt and they were out of sight, leaving behind only a _____ of bubbles as a clue to their whereabouts. For
7. WORDS
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[001] ployees taking cars home, and (f) need for liability _____ on state automobiles. A review of these policie
[002] _(7)_ The state has recently undertaken liability _____ for drivers of state cars. _AUTOMOBILE PRACTICES I
[003] se agricultural labor is not covered by unemployment _____ , we would not expect any issues to arise regarding b
[004] nder the trade dispute provision of the Unemployment _____ Code, although such a situation is quite within the
[005] t she also sold real estate, cosmetics, and hospital _____ . The wearying trek stretched into the afternoon- fro
[006] tretched into the afternoon- from newspaper plant to _____ office to her house and back to the newspaper, where
[007] ready told the police chief that he didn't know what _____ man had recommended Johnston to Mrs. Meeker. He woul
8. WORDS
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[001] re with a muddy pool of water in its middle. A dozen _____ mooed sadly and regarded us as if we were insane, as
[002] North American dairy farmers, with twenty-five million _____ , were producing almost all the milk the market requi
[003] they fill the increased demand with just ten million _____ . How do they do it? The "scrub" cow has been turned
[004] st introduced. Today surgically implanted embryos in _____ have reached much higher success rates -- up to 72 p
[005] s uterus. These are then placed in surrogate "scrub" _____ , which carry the high-quality calves to birth. Dr.
[006] to this increased productivity. Obviously ten million _____ consume less food and produce less methane gas and r
[007] nd the World By BRUCE PALLING No respite for leftist _____ IT IS not just the peasants who are revolting in Roma
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[001] y life after death. Patchen has almost never used _____ poetic forms; he has experimented instead with perso
[002] missed. Mr. Justice Black led a reversing majority: " _____ local rules of pleading cannot be used to impose unn
[003] lordship was engaged on work from which he had left _____ orders he was not to be disturbed. Claire was bitter
[004] "And you know, Angelo, Pretty, he always keeps it a _____ cash basis, like they say"- "Sure", said Angie. "
[005] , because Miss Langford had said she was going to be _____ about school work. He had considered throwing eraser
[006] ant, or one of those amusing dogmatic atheists, or a _____ orthodox Communist. What was the matter with him tha
[007] I felt no conflict between what I was doing and my _____ religious upbringing. I had always resisted the pass
10. WORDS
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[001] spots held out his hands to the great healer. It was _____ but it was also touching. "You know", Norton said to
[002] in or out of character, but he was not particularly _____ . At the end of the monologue the audience would appl
[003] and say: "Adam, you know when I was a boy, it was a _____ thing happened. Lemme tell you now"- If only Si
[004] dark green dress and three strands of pearls. " _____ thing", Mr. Kahler said, when they were seated, "whe
[005] e in here I'll slug him". "That really would be _____ ". She began to laugh. She was still laughing when
[006] or the longest he was a tumor". This joke was not _____ to Linda Kay, and she blushed, as she always did; th
[007] re were they all walking to? Was I supposed to buy a _____ hat and a rattle for Jessica? It was a quarter of