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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.
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word/phrase fits all the gaps in each set? (Corpus=corpus_awl.txt )
anxiety
blame
bus
cure
powder
puzzle
raw
sacred
trap
trembled
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2. WORDS
anxiety
blame
bus
cure
powder
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sacred
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[001] smoke, dissipated it, leaving behind an incandescent _____ . This was accompanied by successive explosions, resem
[002] know that sooner or later the flames must reach the _____ - magazine. To work, Spilett, to work, and let us not
[003] hreats, duly carried through, to cut off supplies of _____ , ball, and thread for fishing nets, about 350 person
[004] ryone's astonishment, someone drops a match in the _____ keg and everything blows up. Before the dust has set
[005] stallography, who use only X-rays, applying only the _____ technique of X-ray diffraction, to clay minerals onl
[006] shattering lack of prudence used the Parthenon as a _____ magazine. It was hit by a shell fired by the bombard
[007] es the hydrogen bond to be symmetric. Douglass found _____ intensity calculations and measurements to agree b
[008] C which contain no adsorbed water. The measured _____ density of the **f used here was about **f, approxim
[009] d absorbed twice with 50-100 mg sweet clover tissue _____ . The intermediate sera were also similarly absorbed
[010] ediate sera were also similarly absorbed with tissue _____ . Sections of sweet clover stem and root tumors were
[011] owex-2-chloride), NS and **f with crown gall tissue _____ , or mouse liver
[012] , or mouse liver _____ did not further improve the specificity of staining.
[013] -treated **f with 50 mg of sweet clover stem tissue _____ further improved the specificity. After these treatm
[014] e and treated twice with healthy sweet clover tissue _____ , nonspecific staining was greatly reduced but a dist
[015] passed through Dowex-2- chloride) with mouse liver _____ , sweet clover crown gall tissue
[016] , sweet clover crown gall tissue _____ , or healthy sweet clover proteins did not satisfacto
[017] second milliliter fractions with sweet clover tissue _____ . The specific staining by both direct and indirec
[018] oad, and we could trace its shape from the ribbon of _____ smoke and dust that hung over it. Wherever you looke
[019] colonials were wearing their own hair and not using _____ . He felt cheerful again, refreshed; presentable in h
[020] rette at its bottom, which tasted peculiarly of face _____ . He left a note propped on the desk asking her to ca
[021] unused room, but white. Women didn't use white face _____ nowadays, he recalled. They used pink, tan, or cream
[022] nowadays, he recalled. They used pink, tan, or cream _____ . Alec glanced into the bathroom. Blood in the bat
[023] ase stood open, containing canisters which contained _____ cartridges. Mike seized a blanket from a pallet i
[024] globe with a blow against a post. He picked up the _____ canister and ran out. Bursting paper cartridges, he
[025] and ran out. Bursting paper cartridges, he scattered _____ beneath the nearest wagon and dumped the contents
3. WORDS
anxiety
blame
bus
cure
powder
puzzle
raw
sacred
trap
trembled
[001] tion at Eddy and Elm Streets responsible for dumping _____ sewage into the Providence River. The division sa
[002] ges of sales are authorized by tax law for specified _____ materials producers using up their assets. The High
[003] t apply its percentage allowance to the value of the _____ materials removed from the ground, not to the revenu
[004] the finished products rather than the lower value of _____ clay alone. President Kennedy, in signing the rel
[005] on Taiwan, there are sixty in Mainland China. If the _____ population figures are crucially relevant, then it i
[006] and heart-warming film. The task of taking the _____ material of Marcel Pagnol's original trio of French
[007] experience of spirit was undoubtedly defective, the _____ experience itself which led to such excesses remains
[008] able distance where I could watch this man transform _____ nature into a composed, not imitative, painting. Wha
[009] sts of top-quality colors: alizarin crimson, orange, _____ sienna,
[010] sienna, _____ umber, burnt sienna, sepia, cerulean blue, cobalt bl
[011] and is equipped to receive unit loads. "So from _____ materials to finished erection the costs of material
[012] shakers so that kelp can be available at the tables. _____ wheat-germ is available on the breakfast table for t
[013] of hard foods helps develop healthy gums and teeth, _____ vegetables and
[014] vegetables and _____ whole-wheat grains are handed out with fresh fruit a
[015] hildren in the woods on the school grounds. This and _____ sugar replace ordinary refined sugar on the tables a
[016] uises and black eyes were relieved by application of _____ beefsteak. (Doctors now say that it was not the meat
[017] at the time. A sympathetic friend made poultices of _____ potato parings, which she said was the best and quic
[018] obacco, put the scalp back in place, and covered the _____ edges with the slices. Then he put a rag around the
[019] t in a hair from a blonde gypsy. Another was to soak _____ beef in vinegar for twenty-four hours, tie it on the
[020] ources of livestock feed. Seeds are the essential _____ materials for milling grain, baking, crushing oilsee
[021] e total up to 50,000 pelts. These deerskins were the _____ material for the manufacture of leather, and were th
[022] ner at the New Tokyo Restaurant where I had my first _____ fish and found it good. They suggested several new f
[023] we discourage the production of ideas: they provide _____ materials with which to work; they provide stimulati
[024] lorentine pack trains going home with their loads of _____ wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the forme
[025] looked down into his drink, a bad Martini made with _____ Italian gin. "Bullshit", he said softly. "
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anxiety
blame
bus
cure
powder
puzzle
raw
sacred
trap
trembled
[001] It is one of those errors which some admire, others _____ ; which God alone can judge. He who is mistaken in an
[002] Republican-controlled State Senate "Must share the _____ for this". Nothing that Plainfield last year had los
[003] ey would wash their hands of the mess. It is hard to _____ them for this. Yet there were other motivations and
[004] s performance in office. While all citizens share in _____ for lax municipal ethics the Wagner regime has seen
[005] ushchev's door, therefore, can be placed the primary _____ but also at fault are those who permitted themselves
[006] e Warwick Musical Theater, and Shelley Berman was to _____ . One of the finest soft shoe tunes ever invented,
[007] the Wollman Rink for Shakespeare. One could hardly _____ Newbold Morris, the Parks Commissioner, for devoting
[008] West. Never given to mincing words, he places heavy _____ upon the faulty, uncourageous leadership of Britain
[009] all, but by the need of men to have persons they can _____ , distrust, denounce, and even hate. Such needs may r
[010] the soup tastes like dishwater, your employees won't _____ the concessionaire. You'll take the rap. Check yo
[011] suggest that career-bound husbands often are more to _____ for topsy-turvy marriages than their wives. The wife
[012] all downtown.) It is hard, on the other hand, to _____ the policeman, blank, good-natured, thoughtless, and
[013] condition. The battle is not easy. We are tempted to _____ others for our problems rather than look them straig
[014] f Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. Hearst disclaimed _____ for this, but the conversation, according to Lane, e
[015] to do with it. It is hard not to lay most of the _____ for their failures on the pope. Nogaret is hardly an
[016] F POWER._ While the Cold War raged it was easy to _____ it all on Yalta. Yet, in summarizing a series of car
[017] y once in a while pause and polish without incurring _____ . But the oral poet cannot pause; he must improvise c
[018] ng with critical care, seeking something material to _____ for his son's illness. "Have you got enough blank
[019] n his rich house saying: "God is tired of taking the _____ . He is going to let History take the
[020] . He is going to let History take the _____ for a while". He thought of the old man laughing
[021] y, indifference, self-destructive attitudes. I don't _____ that girl for breaking her engagement with you. Was
[022] tions. Was it because she had shown panic? Who could _____ her for that? It was one thing to awaken outside a r
[023] ou've been kinda worryin' over that. And can't say I _____ you", said Angie thoughtfully. "This deal with the a
[024] ar you quarrel about her! Oh, well, you can't really _____ Lolotte. She lost her beau to you". But she was
[025] he gasp that swept across the audience. Nor could he _____ them. This particular song at this particular time c
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blame
bus
cure
powder
puzzle
raw
sacred
trap
trembled
[001] ev (Kennedy) rattles his rockets (sabre) in order to _____ his internal ills and to strengthen his negotiating
[002] off on radio commercials, Singer Ray Stevens hawks a _____ -all for neuritis, neuralgia, head-cold distress, ber
[003] domination today often begins with the wife, so the _____ generally must lie with the husband. "To get a ma
[004] umbo- jumbo. Yes, the ozone from his machine would _____ practically everything, he assured her. Did she know
[005] comfort her: "Don't you worry. This machine will _____ your cancer-ridden body". "Cancer"! Mrs. Shaefe
[006] ing to worry about. Why, I once used this machine to _____ a woman with 97 pounds of cancer in her body".
[007] e was ready to buy one. He then sold her minerals to _____ her kidney ailment, a can of sage "to make her look
[008] Rogers vocabulary to huckster his fake machines as a _____ -all for everything from hay fever to sexual impotenc
[009] the waste of time by the patient with Doctor Fraud's _____ -all gadget can prove fatal. Moreover, the diabetic p
[010] fatal. Moreover, the diabetic patient who relies on _____ by the quack device and therefore cuts off his insul
[011] sold by the Vrilium Company of Chicago for $306 as a _____ -all. "Hang this around your neck or attach it to oth
[012] it to other parts of your anatomy, and its rays will _____ any disease you have", said the company. Mr. H. is d
[013] y the name of H. F. Bell sold electric blankets as a _____ for cancer. He did this by the charming practice of
[014] which relieved the pain.) Salted butter was another _____ for bruises. Many people agreed that burns should be
[015] was skimmed off and bottled. Cow's milk was another _____ for burns, and burns covered with gum arabic or plai
[016] nd one had been in the family for 200 years. Another _____ for hydrophobia was to suck the wounds, then cauteri
[017] in which pulverized bloodroot had been steeped. To _____ fungus growths on mouth or hands people made a stron
[018] e of much trouble. A German informant gave me a sure _____ made by combining rye flour and molasses into a po
[019] t and they remove the pain or "fire". Another common _____ was to soak the feet five or ten minutes in warm wat
[020] strangely enough many warts did just that. One wart _____ was to wrap it in a hair from a blonde gypsy. Anothe
[021] tand aside and allow "natural forces" to operate and _____ the distress. That guiding principle of the Hoover A
[022] gh n. The dweller at p is last to hear about a new _____ , the slowest to announce to his neighbors his urgent
[023] uch evidence is the first step; and almost the only " _____ " is early detection and removal. One way to determine
[024] ities for wholesome recreation are the best possible _____ for irregularities in conduct which arise from idlen
[025] the reliving of a strong emotion ("abreaction") may _____ a battle neurosis. This phenomenon raises the questi
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blame
bus
cure
powder
puzzle
raw
sacred
trap
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[001] ss reading difficulty. Certainly there would be less _____ , fewer accidents (it is the clumsy child who sustain
[002] that psychiatrists reacted immediately to anger and _____ in the sound track, whereas written records of the s
[003] friends and personal experimentation to take all the _____ and hazards out of the situation. Perhaps- but ex
[004] ce on this point has caused a great deal of needless _____ , misunderstanding and suspicion. The hymen is,
[005] 25 per cent of the men in the graduating class- the _____ of the unmarried has puffed up the estimate. "Almost
[006] ostile character of change. #UNANALYZED RESPONSES# _____ AND DEEP INSECURITY are the characteristic responses
[007] lyze, it seldom is given adequate attention. And the _____ it generates is misinterpreted as
[008] it generates is misinterpreted as _____ over private interest and threatened social status.
[009] strated by Mr. Lyford's work, is wholly free of this _____ . The problem is rather to find out what is actually
[010] kness resulted, as well as fever, malaise, anorexia, _____ , and an exacerbation of the anemia. These reactions
[011] c work lie in this area. He showed convincingly that _____ is a learned (conditioned) reaction and is the basis
[012] he antagonism between aggressive assertiveness and _____ and found a relatively rapid disappearance of
[013] and found a relatively rapid disappearance of _____ when the former attitude was established. For the
[014] exists between an aggressive attitude and a state of _____ . Although in both emotions sympathetic symptoms are
[015] t autonomic-somatic patterns underlie aggression and _____ , respectively, as indicated by the rate of the excre
[016] sipated her fears of annihilation. Abreaction of her _____ and guilt concerning the death of her parents, when
[017] of awareness usually springs from deep but disguised _____ , often assuming the superficial guise of "not knowin
[018] ictors are the nature and management of the client's _____ as well as the accessibility of the helping person.
[019] OF ANXIETY_ Castaneda, et al. revised the Taylor _____ Scale for use with children. The Taylor Scale was ad
[020] th item selection based upon clinical definitions of _____ . There is much research evidence to validate the use
[021] fferentiating individuals who are likely to manifest _____ in varying degrees. Reliability and validation work
[022] Reliability and validation work with the Children's _____ Scale by Castaneda, et al. demonstrated results clos
[023] the children in reading the items. _RELATIONSHIP OF _____ TO COMPULSIVITY_ The question may be raised wheth
[024] hether or not we are dealing with a common factor in _____ and compulsivity. The two ratings yield a correlatio
[025] theory, compulsive behavior is a way of diminishing _____ , and one might expect a negative association except
7. WORDS
anxiety
blame
bus
cure
powder
puzzle
raw
sacred
trap
trembled
[001] imary. The average Congolese can do little more than _____ out the meaning of "la chatte" and "le chien" and wr
[002] t coalesces. What comes after Trujillo is now the _____ . The Dominican people have known no democratic insti
[003] m, then does it even while the American is trying to _____ out how Delon expects to profit from the act. #REC
[004] imple magic square of three", a mere "mathematical _____ ", was able to exert a considerable influence on the
[005] hanical interlocking frame is much like a mechanical _____ , but once understood, the principles can be applied
[006] the frame and moving parts become a sort of Chinese _____ where several pieces must be removed before the part
[007] usly unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a _____ . The misery of Miriam's bitterness can be felt today
[008] state litigation raises in reverse the old diversity _____ of the relation of procedure to substance. Subject t
[009] n act like that become meaningless, so that he would _____ over it for days, whereas at the time it had seemed
[010] ned in trance; there was much to grok, loose ends to _____ over and fit into his growing- all that he had seen
[011] elements of contemporary culture that would probably _____ , delight, and possibly frighten people who lived just
[012] Medical Center researchers puts another piece in the _____ of risks associated with hormone replacement therapy
[013] inas in her past, although Debussy's Melisande might _____ them. If you knew she was a Placido Domingo protegee
[014] ke famous names, words and dates appear in crossword _____ fashion. The article also misidentified an Israeli ma
[015] imary. The average Congolese can do little more than _____ out the meaning of "la chatte" and "le chien" and wr
[016] t coalesces. What comes after Trujillo is now the _____ . The Dominican people have known no democratic insti
[017] m, then does it even while the American is trying to _____ out how Delon expects to profit from the act. #REC
[018] imple magic square of three", a mere "mathematical _____ ", was able to exert a considerable influence on the
[019] hanical interlocking frame is much like a mechanical _____ , but once understood, the principles can be applied
[020] the frame and moving parts become a sort of Chinese _____ where several pieces must be removed before the part
[021] usly unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a _____ . The misery of Miriam's bitterness can be felt today
[022] state litigation raises in reverse the old diversity _____ of the relation of procedure to substance. Subject t
[023] n act like that become meaningless, so that he would _____ over it for days, whereas at the time it had seemed
[024] ned in trance; there was much to grok, loose ends to _____ over and fit into his growing- all that he had seen
8. WORDS
anxiety
blame
bus
cure
powder
puzzle
raw
sacred
trap
trembled
[001] et supper beginning at 5:30 p. m. tomorrow. Later, a _____ will carry members to the Chicago Stadium to see Jac
[002] Buaford Robinson, 23, of 7026 Stewart av., a CTA _____ driver, was slugged and robbed last night by a group
[003] trict that 10 youths boarded his south bound express _____ in front of Dunbar Vocational High school, 30th stre
[004] street was reached, Robinson related, he stopped the _____ and told the youths he was going to call the CTA su
[005] as going to call the CTA supervisor. As he left the _____ with his money bag, Robinson added, the largest yout
[006] hat failed to reach a verdict in the "Freedom Rider" _____ burning trial four weeks ago. U.S. Attorney Mac
[007] y growing out of a white mob's attack on a Greyhound _____ carrying the first of the Freedom Riders. The
[008] carrying the first of the Freedom Riders. The _____ was burned outside Anniston. One of the eight d
[009] problem would be similar. They could walk, ride on a _____ or be driven. It's much more complex than that. G
[010] f driving myself. The solution, naturally, is the _____ . However, it's a half-mile walk down a steep hill fr
[011] lf-mile walk down a steep hill from our house to the _____ , and it's too hard on my legs. My wife could driv
[012] se the buses would not stop on the parkway, land for _____ stations and for parking areas nearby will be needed
[013] sought to break down racial discrimination in local _____ depots. All across the South there are signs that
[014] n. Southfield schools furnish an old 45- passenger _____ (the heater in which needs repair since some of the
[015] walking the streets at night. There should be better _____ service and all of our city departments and their va
[016] enter. Directly across from the Gardens I found a _____ stop sign for T 4 and rode it down to the Bosphorus
[017] olmabahce Palace immediately after that. There the _____ turned right along the Bosphorus, past ocean liners
[018] oss from the entrance to the bridge. Passing it, the _____ climbed a hill, with the covered spice bazaar on the
[019] ced by automatic parking gates? Will your local _____ company erect and/or maintain the
[020] company erect and/or maintain the _____ stops at your plant? If you provide inter-plant t
[021] numbers- except for those who work there as waiters, _____ boys, or counselors in the day camps. The great worl
[022] receipts as well as upon the intake of the rail and _____ companies, some of which began to offer special excu
[023] changes as well: the sit-ins, the picket lines, the _____ strikes- all of these were unheard-of even ten years
[024] but it is deeper. When you pass a church on an Irish _____ , all the hands flurry in the sign of the cross. One
[025] r normal blushes about appearing 'Jewish' in subway, _____ , racetrack, movie house, any of the public places th
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blame
bus
cure
powder
puzzle
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sacred
trap
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[001] ous in his proposal? Is nothing in this country more _____ than the tourists' comfort? Perhaps the idea of
[002] such groupings as the Five Ancient Rulers, the Five _____ Mountains, the Five Directions (with Center), the Fi
[003] ielding, hence Yin); taking the former from the Five _____ Mountains of the Han period and the latter from the
[004] the 9, Huo-Shan in Anhwei, which was then the South _____ Mountain. For the rivers, the 4 represented the Huai
[005] s unfair and unchristian to ask a person to take the _____ vows of Church membership before he has been careful
[006] aning of Christian discipleship before they take the _____ vows. They will have a greater appreciation for the
[007] e and society if no one, not even the doctors of the _____ law themselves, can say clearly and succinctly what
[008] t is its irreverence for tradition and dogma and for _____ texts. One patriarch is supposed to have relegated
[009] texts. One patriarch is supposed to have relegated _____ scriptures for use in an outhouse. But this is not t
[010] e the Catholic Church expresses such desire that the _____ Scriptures be read, the following taken from the Hol
[011] n, as much as to say: "How dare you disturb me in my _____ precinct"? Intuition told him, however, that she
[012] Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism, although they have _____ scriptures, priests, spiritual disciplines, and plac
[013] are watching him know why, too. Any street meeting, _____ or secular, which he and his colleagues uneasily cov
[014] t readjust with even greater stress and tension: the _____ wilderness is gradually surrendering to suburbs and
[015] ed four-letter word it is because it is taboo; it is _____ . As Lipton, the prophet of the beat generation, decl
[016] on. Thus jazz is transmuted into something holy, the _____ road to integration of being. Jazz, like sex, is a m
[017] high levels of abstraction. He is the conveyor of a _____ reality by which he has been grasped. I have chosen
[018] has been leading. What he really wants is to find "a _____ cause" to which he can honestly devote himself. This
[019] With this conviction, the partition between the _____ and the secular disappears. One's daily work becomes
[020] and the secular disappears. One's daily work becomes _____ , since it is performed in the field of influence of
[021] ld is party to the action. The thunderclaps over the _____ wood at Colonus and the storms in King Lear are caus
[022] nvasions caused a rapid rise in the influence of the _____ class. The power of every ecclesiastical organizatio
[023] asses. Doctrine was not only mysterious; it was also _____ , "and no believer in an inspired church could tolera
[024] he had taken to the London zoo a live quetzal, the _____ bird of the old Mayans. In fact, he had raised quetz
[025] st contention. Life, they say, should be regarded as _____ and, therefore, as something that neither an individ
10. WORDS
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blame
bus
cure
powder
puzzle
raw
sacred
trap
trembled
[001] Gill, Al Bandish, Jim Morgart, Bob Neil at the Mouse _____ ... Billy and Jean Moffett at the Rickshaw ... Bea M
[002] al, switching to "Hail Columbia, Happy Land"! as the _____ is sprung. Independence Day is the appropriate da
[003] going President's farewell gift of a political booby- _____ to his successor. The Eisenhower budget was simultan
[004] n Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City _____ . Mulligan's band has been infected with his solid
[005] hotshells- to break the little Targo clay targets. A _____ for throwing these miniature clays fastens to the ba
[006] that the shooter can throw his own targets. A spring _____ for solid mounting and a regular hand
[007] for solid mounting and a regular hand _____ are also available. You can have your choice of a se
[008] travel 50 feet or more when thrown from the spring _____ but it's almost impossible to break one after it pas
[009] g models did hit the market. For example, a Browning _____ version of the Superposed over/under, the Broadway (
[010] -time pool nurse. You should see to it that the _____ , the dirt-catcher in front of the filter, is always
[011] lter, is always clean. A pool is no place for a shut _____ . You should firmly insist that no bobby pins or h
[012] ent of public and privately financed shooting parks, _____ and skeet leagues, rifle and pistol marksmanship pro
[013] tropolis, for it simply means the closing of an iron _____ on the outreach of the Christian fellowship and the
[014] rising that they resist the lure of marriage and the _____ of domesticity, for like cats they are determined no
[015] to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine _____ , and the general use of anesthetics. The use of map
[016] r. It was then distilled at least three times from a _____ at -78` to a liquid air
[017] at -78` to a liquid air _____ with only a small middle fraction being retained in
[018] uppose that the animal did not in fact fall into the _____ and did not suffer at all, but that we mistakenly be
[019] illiam to a debate before the Council. It is to be a _____ . You know the law: if you lose the debate after acce
[020] n made Matsuo tremble. While his comrades cocked the _____ , that one behaved as if it was some dull maneuver. T
[021] lghman. The fighting marshal had walked right into a _____ and at any moment six slugs might slam into his hide
[022] mptation to flng himself out of that bristling death- _____ , Tilghman deliberately engaged the nervous rancher i
[023] Prague to convince the embassy refugees it was not a _____ . Their delirious joy at his announcement, said Hans-
[024] gether more clever: McDonald isolated and an offside _____ jammed by a pass that Alan Pardew collected before s
[025] oft." "My boy," replied the sailor, bending over the _____ and drawing out one of these representatives of the f