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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 )
christmas
custom
dine
educated
fever
modest
nail
priest
weigh
widow
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2. WORDS
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[001] hat distinguishes them from the more subtle and well- _____ Pimen. Their begging song might easily be a folk mel
[002] tment on the part of the Negroes as they became more _____ and got better wages. But this situation of Ken
[003] ssion, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly _____ , four cuts above any of the folks back home ... "Fou
[004] ive in his manner and, though a slave, obviously was _____ after a fashion and imitated the manners of his owne
[005] monial opportunities with Pasadena debs who had been _____ abroad, and with those of the more lenient Los Angel
[006] an adult, eighteen to thirty-four years of age who is _____ , upscale, and health conscious. Even early European h
[007] spense the Morning After Pill regimen. Any medically _____ person should be given to understand that this regim
[008] ture as an ideologically charged sign. Being born and _____ in Taiwan, my impulse was to identify with those who,
[009] ly viable, but on the backs of the lower- paid, less- _____ , unskilled employees. Fewer union members with more p
[010] entry. This company has more than two hundred highly _____ and well- trained personnel, providing an inexpensive
[011] advantage. Many of those involved in India have been _____ in the United States or Canada. They know the requir
[012] in Leipzig, the first test area. The city has a well- _____ population that is under- employed. FTTH will provid
3. WORDS
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educated
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weigh
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[001] return. Pels also sent a check for $100 to Russell's _____ and had a white marble monument erected on his grave
[002] weigh too much and didn't own the mint. She was the _____ of a writer who had died in an airplane crash, and M
[003] wenty years ago, she would have been known as a golf _____ , and the sum of her manner was perhaps one of bereav
[004] h an ace o' spades, bad luck". Ace of spades- a _____ , that was what they called a
[005] , that was what they called a _____ , these low-class crooks remembered Mr. Skyros distra
[006] rk. Who was the murdered woman ... Mrs. Buck"? " _____ , nice sort of woman. Comfortably fixed. Ran a fair-s
[007] it went on to say that there had been set off to the _____ one full third part of the real estate of the deceas
[008] , also one Cow Right, and lastly they set off to the _____ her own land that she brought with her as dower, nam
[009] must be like for her to be without Greg, to be a new _____ , a young
[010] , a young _____ ". "It depends on the
[011] ". "It depends on the _____ ". Lucy had an idea that Myra loved it. And not for o
[012] w was Cathy"? "Subdued. But Myra was the merriest _____ I ever saw". On her way to the airport, on her
4. WORDS
christmas
custom
dine
educated
fever
modest
nail
priest
weigh
widow
[001] ense, indubitable IDENTITY, as do an eye or tooth or _____ . They isolate out easily, naturally, and unambiguous
[002] finger, at the wrinkled, heavy knuckle and the thick _____ he used like a knife to pry up, slit, and open. For
[003] e cleaned them off, using an oiled rag he found on a _____ . He wiped the steering wheel and all the places he m
[004] of water, killed Dogtown. Dead, dead as a brass door _____ , and I sometimes feel like the Sexton, for I'm about
[005] tub from the back of the house where it hung from a _____ in the wall. He said: "You'll feel a lot better afte
[006] rough the theater audience attest. But with his black _____ polish and cultivated angst, Harris' Mark is a long w
[007] ed against fire). Metal Logs It looks as if another _____ is being driven into the coffin of the Canadian fores
[008] y. Industry observers fear that this would be another _____ in the coffin of the independent record industry. In
[009] silicon bronze Stronghold nails (made by Independent _____ + Packing Co., Bridgewater, Mass.) are used extensiv
[010] ense, indubitable IDENTITY, as do an eye or tooth or _____ . They isolate out easily, naturally, and unambiguous
[011] finger, at the wrinkled, heavy knuckle and the thick _____ he used like a knife to pry up, slit, and open. For
[012] e cleaned them off, using an oiled rag he found on a _____ . He wiped the steering wheel and all the places he m
5. WORDS
christmas
custom
dine
educated
fever
modest
nail
priest
weigh
widow
[001] means, even at the cost of her honor. Coming from a _____ , the music sounds as odd as the advice: @ Marin
[002] ved. The marine slumped forward into a bow like a _____ before an idol. Remembering his own thirst, Matsuo
[003] would not, he knew, come in the person of the temple _____ . Instead, he walked around the temple and mounted st
[004] of the Lotus Sutra should be spread. And the Eminent _____ Annen states, "This refers to our country of Japan."
[005] ed in the 1790s by explorer George Vancouver for the _____ Francisco Dumetz, who had been Vancouver's host at M
[006] Dume and not Dumetz because Vancouver misspelled the _____ 's name, (Francis J.) Weber said. Hammer, 34, built t
[007] st, it was a 'baptism by fire, with the press as high _____ . ' Diana resigned her teaching post at a kindergarten
[008] drals look all but empty during services. A Catholic _____ recently recounted how in the chapel of a large city
[009] h of Rome and the Nonconformist Church. The Catholic _____ , though somewhat superficially drawn, easily came
[010] glican parson, a Free Church minister and a Catholic _____ . Catholic priests have frequently appeared on tel
[011] er in Leamington who has offered to allow a Catholic _____ to preach from his pulpit; a report that a Catholic
[012] niversity of Pennsylvania, dreamed that a Babylonian _____ , associated with the king Kurigalzu, (1300 B.C.) esc
6. WORDS
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dine
educated
fever
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weigh
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[001] ry as soon as possible" (Early Life, p. 188); and on _____ Day, 1890, Hardy wrote: "While thinking of resuming
[002] heir lives (two marriages, two births, one divorce), _____ and Easter cards of the traditional sort had been th
[003] around the room, collecting the small frail objects ( _____ , birthday, and anniversary) and wrapping them in tis
[004] ling off his overshoes. "Tell me what to get her for _____ ". "She's been talking about a picture", Winston h
[005] cture of me"? But Winston had persuaded him. On _____ night, they had had a disagreement about it. Winston
[006] d", and he had picked up his photograph with the red _____ bow still on it. "Look, an old man. Will you wear pi
[007] d faces of the party guests; the scene looked like a _____ card. On the third floor one of the two windows was
[008] his wife now and thinks of you. You wonder about the _____ card with no name on it, and it comes to you that ma
[009] arish church where we discussed plans for the annual _____ bazaar, so that dusk was beginning to gather when I
[010] ever said what I said"? Another woman, addressing _____ cards, said to her husband: "We sent them one last y
[011] d despite the family's estrangement. Then in 1979, at _____ , Michael and Rena appeared unannounced at his parent
[012] gine Valentine's Day, the Fourth of July, Halloween, _____ , and birthdays. Another process allows colors and i
7. WORDS
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dine
educated
fever
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[001] business activity this year has thus far been quite _____ , it is hard to escape the conclusion that the soften
[002] Viator and Heidegger's das Nichtige, this may seem a _____ role for philosophy. However, modesty and triviality
[003] un had remembered, stating that it had been a small, _____ wedding compared to some of the others. There w
[004] at Spencer's boast of twenty staunch followers was a _____ estimate". "Well", Heiser ventured, "why don't we
[005] ting the estate tax would deprive the government of a _____ but dependable and highly progressive source of reve
[006] tuce feta cheese combination also passed muster. The _____ Michelle's Kitchen in Ocean Beach (583-7505), a bran
[007] site bordering the conservation area, they propose a _____ and almost exact essay upon Spitalfields's early Geor
[008] aterman. In her second album, which takes a sensibly _____ manifesto for its title, the mix is as before; you wi
[009] eriously, he would have found out that DRG has a very _____ self- service canteen at its Bristol head office. The
[010] , but direct exposure to housebuilding is apparently _____ . Even so, Sir Matthew admitted that the wider implic
[011] , rating the shares, down 1p to 242p yesterday, on a _____ earnings multiple of around eight times. Buy. ’Ä¢Bus
[012] ts of higher mortgages. Pre-tax profits showed a more _____ 2.5 per cent increase to £6.3m in the absence of la
8. WORDS
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custom
dine
educated
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[001] y all field measurements. The next level attempts to _____ varied evidence and come to a balanced, sensible con
[002] o realize a man could be good company even if he did _____ too much and didn't own the mint. She was the widow
[003] know, in detail, your travel plans, so he or she can _____ in with advice. If possible, get a doctor referral i
[004] ew York Stock Exchange. The textbooks say investors _____ facts and look at track records to choose stockbroker
[005] d advanced materials. The new materials are stronger, _____ less, and can endure far higher temperature ranges --
[006] or. Nevertheless, a quiet build- up to Thursday would _____ in his favour. The main central banks exploited yeste
[007] . Forty-seven millions of these insects are needed to _____ a grain, and yet, with the sea-salt they absorb, the
[008] little craft, which was twelve feet long, and did not _____ more than two hundred pounds. The operation of launch
[009] lf in thickness, then divided into pieces which might _____ about a thousand pounds each, was melted down in lar
[010] ll was embarked, and the "Bonadventure" was ready to _____ anchor and sail with the morning tide. The prisoner
[011] really seems as if the blackguards were preparing to _____ anchor." "Perhaps we shall be obliged to take refuge
[012] It was only too true. The "Speedy" was beginning to _____ her anchor, and her intention was evidently to appro
9. WORDS
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custom
dine
educated
fever
modest
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priest
weigh
widow
[001] erve. And it might be, considering the uncomfortable _____ the Angels had of thinking of everything in terms of
[002] mind by nurturing a healthy body. Across Europe, the _____ of drinking or bathing in mineral water has been asso
[003] rom a religious taboo or from a disgust generated by _____ . Many Britons may abhor the notion of eating horsefl
[004] rnal's Web site: I'd just whip out my laptop from its _____ - fit pocket on the flap of my backpack, fire up the
[005] to definition: an institution is "an established law, _____ , practice, or system; an organization having a social
[006] or short- run, manufacturing cost-effective. Today a _____ -built home, office, or warehouse can be erected quic
[007] e of these Silvestrin will be able to incorporate the _____ -designed wood and stone furniture necessary to discou
[008] of being buried at Rokupa cemetery, as is the normal _____ with state criminals, the six were buried elsewhere
[009] n two crops a year." At that, according to his usual _____ , Pencroft could not reply otherwise than by a tremend
[010] he weapons nor the instruments, contrary to the usual _____ , bore the name of the maker; they were, besides, in a
[011] if Pencroft had been the most vigilant and severe of _____ - house officers. Cyrus Harding and Neb were taken int
[012] tlemen." Cyrus Harding gave him his hand, as was his _____ to do, and, leading him to the window,-- "Ayrton," s
10. WORDS
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custom
dine
educated
fever
modest
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weigh
widow
[001] e help spending their money. He didn't just wine and _____ them at expensive hotels-he endeared himself to the
[002] d, breakfasted, so that it should not be necessary to _____ until very late; then the repast being ended, the exp
[003] s, motels, and drive-in establishments where you can _____ , see a movie, shop, or make a bank deposit, the ever
[004] ariadis, who were friends and patients of Norton, to _____ at a restaurant on the shores of the Aegean. On the