MULTI_CONC
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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 )
buried
cheer
creature
inquiry
lonely
scratch
stupid
sugar
swear
tail
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2. WORDS
buried
cheer
creature
inquiry
lonely
scratch
stupid
sugar
swear
tail
[001] version and a pleasing joke in More's account of the _____ brutalities of early sixteenth century wars, of the
[002] t at ugly gray slums and said softly, "Look at those _____ kids". It was a Negro section of peeling row houses,
[003] learn, if he is not a Reactionary or lazy. No one is _____ . That's what he said. He oughta know. It is plain as
[004] a prie-dieu, gouging at his heart until a rough and _____ hand bade him rise and go? Men were slaughtered ever
[005] seemed to me that I was not only unlucky but quite _____ as well. I knew that I'd soon be back working as an
[006] when we found her at the garage". Vince swore. " _____ fools- ain't got enough brains between the two of yo
[007] ks she's in a ordinary garage". "How do you know, _____ ? And put Cate's gun back". "I know". Grosse tucke
[008] e education pays off". His sarcasm was followed by a _____ grin of his thick mouth and bad teeth. "I guess
[009] nterrupted him with his work half finished- and that _____ jackass Short was certain to louse it up. Foster lis
[010] ernity is no time for recriminations. You too were a _____ jackass until you poisoned me. Afterwards you did we
[011] you? I give you my word I'm not trying to pull some _____ kind of joke, or to deliberately foul up the expedit
[012] stink, Tom Lord! I think you're mean and hateful and _____ , and- louder"? said Joyce. "Uh-huh. So I can hear
3. WORDS
buried
cheer
creature
inquiry
lonely
scratch
stupid
sugar
swear
tail
[001] that for the hardbake, or the toffee, or the barley _____ , or the sardines, or the bitters, or the condensed m
[002] e of the suitcases, and took out powdered coffee and _____ . She appeared with the teacart and he opened the win
[003] st something that they were able to offer Eugene the _____ bowl with their
[004] bowl with their _____ in it, and the plate of bread and butter, and that
[005] ith a curse, Vince seized the thing nearest, a glass _____ container with a spouted metal top, and threw it aga
[006] The heavy glass didn't break, but the top flew off; _____ sprayed with a hiss that was loud in the silence.
[007] osse quietly got a broom and started to sweep up the _____ . Vince watched him. His mouth worked over the profan
[008] wer. He got one of the menus and brushed the spilled _____ onto it and carried it to a box on the floor behind
[009] to black out, Miranda's dumping the contents of the _____ bowl on the table, and various screeches, thuds, and
[010] (the enzyme in the body that helps us to absorb milk _____ or lactose) after infancy is associated with areas o
[011] sian plant of the hibiscus family. Itlooks similar to _____ cane or bamboo, grows in the same climates, and can b
[012] library in Vancouver. Optical disk storage (and the _____ -cube-size crystals yet to come) will provide instant
4. WORDS
buried
cheer
creature
inquiry
lonely
scratch
stupid
sugar
swear
tail
[001] rees stood like specters in the February night. Snow _____ the streets and covered the slanting rooftops, as Jo
[002] eral the next morning from the crossroads church and _____ the little box in the quiet family plot. Kate moved
[003] ke a lavender ghost: Greg's house, on the day he was _____ , and the child, pale, silent, baffled, watching the
[004] And the man who brought sweet potatoes into Kanto is _____ there, next to a beautiful seated statue of Fudo. Oh
[005] orthwestern Nebraska. Many became caught in the mud, _____ and then preserved as fossils. A life-sized fossil d
[006] ies will bridge the snarling ring road, which will be _____ in decorous tunnels. Rodney Karen, the affable archi
[007] oned. Nearby, two rusting medieval cannons lie half- _____ in the sand. Their modern equivalents, two 120mm mor
[008] the Philippines. He claimed it was the fabled treaure, _____ in 1945, of the Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
[009] ompleted six and a half hours later. Instead of being _____ at Rokupa cemetery, as is the normal custom with stat
[010] the normal custom with state criminals, the six were _____ elsewhere at state expense. Unlike other occasions,
[011] amilies. As the bodies of victims of the fighting are _____ , there is growing alarm over the scale of the killin
[012] ther 37 detained. But so far only four men have been _____ and no autopsy results have been disclosed. "Where a
5. WORDS
buried
cheer
creature
inquiry
lonely
scratch
stupid
sugar
swear
tail
[001] er, strong stress on man treats man as an additional _____ who responds to the stimulation of hunger. Here ag
[002] backward, while the church advanced like a headless _____ in a long, shapeless coat. The spire seemed to hold
[003] and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile _____ . He was seeing, somehow, the face of a young boy, th
[004] pulled out one of them and cocked it. A strange wood _____ came floating up from a patch of berry bushes. It wa
[005] ed its nostrils. David took a firm hand with it. The _____ in feathers looked around and David saw the mad eyes
[006] incarnation of Fudo, or perhaps a demon. The strange _____ , housed in wire, made him shudder. The sensation he
[007] Tamagotchis are toys that have a screen on which a _____ appears and that fit in the palm of a small hand. Bel
[008] erform a few virtual caretaking tasks that keep the _____ happy and healthy. The object is to keep the
[009] happy and healthy. The object is to keep the _____ alive for as long as possible, which can be 12 days
[010] roduct for Americans. In the toys sold in Japan, the _____ on the screen eventually dies. For Americans, who do
[011] s from two, several, or many organisms in one living _____ . These combinations will not stop at bacteria, plants
[012] It was Top, a favorite of the engineer. The faithful _____ , having broken his chain, had followed his master. H
6. WORDS
buried
cheer
creature
inquiry
lonely
scratch
stupid
sugar
swear
tail
[001] ing about them, why shouldn't they be greeted with a _____ ? To greet them with repulsion would turn what before
[002] age and all those unseen people out there, who might _____ you or boo you, but that was largely, though not ent
[003] for the wrongdoing of public officials is nothing to _____ about. TWO SLEEPY Friday afternoons ago, in what the
[004] ves, the manner of their performance should certainly _____ him on his 42nd birthday today. It took Wolves 15 sec
[005] he lake must have been shattered by the explosion. A _____ escaped them! A large rent was seen in the granite! A
[006] ing; a name which his companions again saluted with a _____ . The torches were now almost consumed, and as they w
[007] the Twist. They'll start lessons, too, pronto. ... A _____ here for Francis Lorenz, state treasurer, who will m
[008] s lining up a 25-foot putt on the 16th, a thunderous _____ from the direction of the 18th green unmistakably an
[009] . Flint, "was always a haven of hospitality and good _____ , especially grateful to one like myself far from hom
[010] e was sure to have the needed information or word of _____ . In a few school districts one finds a link betwe
[011] d-owner customers were wearin' long faces, he said, " _____ up boys, whatever happens, the books won't freeze".
[012] sh to come to grips with the enemy. When the victory _____ went up this officer found himself still mounted, wi
7. WORDS
buried
cheer
creature
inquiry
lonely
scratch
stupid
sugar
swear
tail
[001] harp tongue and fierce initiative. Ann Catt was a _____ , devoted soul, never married, conducting a spotless
[002] by in the convertible ...". The thought of this _____ woman sitting at her window touched him, although he
[003] ness? The remarks she made about the sufferings of a _____ woman seemed so broad at first that he didn't know w
[004] and two attendants were in charge of us. I felt _____ and depressed as I stared out the bus window at Chic
[005] s and uncles, cousins. Listening, I felt cheated and _____ as only an orphan can. When she had finished I said:
[006] ning and given tickets back to New York. I felt _____ and depressed as I packed my bags at the Croydon Hot
[007] uch safer to take his victim for a one-way ride on a _____ country road. The man's eyelids fluttered. He ope
[008] "? "At first I was homesick", he answered. "I was _____ always". He rolled toward her and took her in his ar
[009] ward her and took her in his arms. "But now I am not _____ . I grok I shall never be
[010] . I grok I shall never be _____ again". "Mike darling"- They kissed, and went o
[011] y. "How can a planet with so many neighbors be so _____ "? Ryan asked. He was the captain, so he could ask qu
[012] he could ask questions like that. "Some can be _____ in a crowd", Nogol said elaborately. ## "WHAT will
8. WORDS
buried
cheer
creature
inquiry
lonely
scratch
stupid
sugar
swear
tail
[001] the Central Statistical Office. The 1952 demographic _____ in Ruanda-Urundi was directed by V. Neesen, a member
[002] V. Neesen, a member of the IRSAC staff, though the _____ was carried out under the auspices of AIMO, which h
[003] use of improved equipment in a second demographic _____ in 1960, so that the
[004] in 1960, so that the _____ can be carried through in one year and the results p
[005] loped, will affect the method of glottochronological _____ . If adjectival meanings show relatively low retentiv
[006] of lexicostatistics as a growing body of scientific _____ . If of the founders of glottochronology Swadesh has
[007] stion that falls outside the present scope of social _____ , but within its potential domain of relevance. In th
[008] proponent. But to return to the main line of our _____ . It is doubtful that Utopia is still widely read bec
[009] t, combined arm and file, unit record synchronizers, _____ synchronizers, and alteration switches. The declarat
[010] er of prisoners. Besides, suppose we hold a court of _____ , then what? Then we have informed a large number of
[011] s year. Defer fees and restore grants, says Scottish _____ HADD was founded because of the lack of success in
[012] theoretical texts that have opened up new fields of _____ for you, paying special attention to the introductory
9. WORDS
buried
cheer
creature
inquiry
lonely
scratch
stupid
sugar
swear
tail
[001] the girl. He wondered whether Needham was going to _____ off gambling and get a steady job or whether he was
[002] of rancher and cowboy witnesses ready and willing to _____ with straight faces that he had been in Bates Hole
[003] od and Dan swung her up into the load. "A body would _____ I floated right up here on a cloud"! Rod and Da
[004] and it was done after consultation with Cromwell. I _____ it, sir". And it was clear that Adrien was not mi
[005] "Are you, Cromwell"? "Yes, sir. Before God I _____ I am innocent. I know nothing of any plot, if there
[006] ir. #@# I DON'T really believe in intuition. But I _____ to you from the moment I opened my eyes, I knew it w
[007] ll- known' staffers who (ex- Capitol police officers _____ ) tried to bed every Capitol policeman, or the teenag
[008] y flirt harmlessly, get quietly drunk, but they don't _____ and they don't you-know- what - it's a family show,
[009] "Very good, Herbert," replied Pencroft, "but I could _____ that all those useful specimens you have just told us
[010] at, it was not you?" asked Gideon Spilett. "No! I can _____ to it. This is a reef knot, and I always make a runn
[011] o the sailor and Spilett. Both were stupefied. "I can _____ ," said Pencroft, "that this gate was shut just now!"
[012] is something, eh, mate"? the Australian asked. "They _____ that every person smells different and every family
10. WORDS
buried
cheer
creature
inquiry
lonely
scratch
stupid
sugar
swear
tail
[001] " t" value of 2.405 which is significant on the two- _____ test at the .028 level. #DISCUSSION# _INDIVIDUAL D
[002] s or recurrent parts (fish, bird, tree, grass, horn, _____ , bark, root). The groups are therefore really non-co
[003] again. Then: "Yeah. A chicken with six tits and a _____ lak a corkscrew. And hit squealed for slop". Mose gi
[004] as the fact that it was trailing an enormous comet's- _____ of Angels. The skiff was not heading for the nurs
[005] Major J. A. Roebuck". The voice was that of Johnson, _____ gunner off another crew. Squeezing a look betwe
[006] nto a whirling dance, a sort of blind chasing of the _____ . It ended when he tumbled; but jumping right up, he
[007] ourteen a day". "If I was your mama, I'd wop your _____ off". "My mother never wops me. I've got this leg
[008] sand off his stubby whiskers and his long plume of a _____ . "That's some dog. What kind"? "Part collie,
[009] erving. "I want the fish served whole, with head and _____ ", the epicure explained, "and serve it with lemon in
[010] es. The work here was done between 1941 and '46, the _____ end of Sturgeon's impressive debut but before he real
[011] y the double band of black on the wing, by the white _____ , and by their slate- colored plumage. But if the rock-
[012] was rich chestnut-brown mottled with dark brown, and _____ of the same color. Herbert recognized the males by th