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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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[001] covered bridge, a place to find agates or other semi- _____ stones or a place to pan gold, etcetera may be of in
[002] is important, of course. But it is our health- more _____ than all the money in the world- that these modern w
[003] its richest flowering, and there the memory is more _____ , and the consciousness of loss the greater. Also, we
[004] brilliantly lighted cathedral, the shrine of so many _____ memories. The guns are fired, the hymns are sung, an
[005] sion, he must abandon his own code and sacrifice his _____ individualism. Dashiell Hammett resolved this contra
[006] e. True, ideas are important, perhaps life's most _____ treasures. But have we not gone overboard in stressi
[007] ation. There never were two fames alike. One fame is _____ and luminous; another is a bubble of a bauble". #"
[008] say. It was not merely a hunger for "money, gold and _____ objects" that delayed the papal pronouncement that
[009] teyned agayne". The fall of Rome, the discovery of _____ metals, and the Protestant Reformation were all link
[010] yaburgers have replaced meat, and wood has become so _____ that it is saved for expensive jewelry; and the atmo
[011] ion, respecting the uniforms as the guardians of our _____ liberty. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto se
[012] on of new ones. It tends to support the longstanding _____ sentiments, the traditional ways of thinking, and th
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[001] n of a Jewish gang and one of four brothers of tough _____ , who were Hirschey, a gambler-politician in loose be
[002] who would rather turn a sou than amass a creditable _____ overseas. A good negociant or shipper will not on
[003] ect but the temple that is immortal. "The man's true _____ is his work". The short poems grouped at the en
[004] e these meetings was, here is a man of international _____ and proved earning power; how can he be financed so
[005] he friendship might be continued without harm to her _____ . In any case, she told Thompson that she saw no reas
[006] d only north, northwest. He had come to learn that a _____ for peculiarity allowed mere field officers a certai
[007] ee, with any famous monument. Will it live up to its _____ ? The weight of fame and history is formidable, and d
[008] re leave the writer to the enjoyment of the unenvied _____ which the personal abuse he has heaped on us will en
[009] ons of men and women alike. The bulk of his early _____ , however, came not from his poetry or his music, but
[010] form. The orator of this period, in order to earn a _____ , had to pay close attention to the formal compositio
[011] e Mingus, and other "swinging" musicians of secure _____ , thus placing himself within established jazz tradit
[012] As one development followed another, the company's _____ for precision in the graduating field brought it bro
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[001] longer periods. Gradually he withdrew from the shop _____ , and for the past thirty years, he has worked indepe
[002] tions in the work but can even be eliminated from it _____ . Mr. Cunningham tries not to cheat the chance met
[003] innocence was fostered and carefully- if not perhaps _____ innocently- preserved. You had grown up at a time wh
[004] find that Michael Symes's book had not presented an _____ true picture. He had failed to realize that the Burm
[005] ed his attacks on Woodruff, and finally stopped them _____ . And Pike never did find out if Robinson was really
[006] ir general ideas on the moral measure of literature. _____ , the list will give us considerable variety in attit
[007] emnon's blood cried out for vengeance, disappeared _____ or took tawdry refuge among the gaslights of melodra
[008] s the realm of politics and even the realm of action _____ - both the action of Malraux's early anarchist-advent
[009] guage. These early experiments were evidently not _____ satisfying to Patchen. Beginning in Cloth of the Tem
[010] However, all admitted that the "hind sight" was not _____ lost. In their own words, it had aided them to get a
[011] first question become completely ambiguous and fail _____ , of course, as evidence to establish the desired con
[012] ad handled immediately before, even though they were _____ unfamiliar to him and could not be identified by him
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[001] #HOLIDAYS, TIME OFF, OVERTIME# Do you protect your _____ privileges with an attendance requirement both befor
[002] an attendance requirement both before and after the _____ ? Do you plan to limit additional holidays to area
[003] hard to sell workers on this as it gives them longer _____ periods. For example, the Friday after Thanksgiving
[004] yee to work his last shift both before and after the _____ to be eligible for pay. This cuts the absentee rate.
[005] e, but families are being turned away, especially on _____ weekends. The National Parks, always popular camping
[006] to go around the world, but she settled for a French _____ . In an anonymous interview with a French newspape
[007] la met in Milwaukee in 1907 during Paula's Christmas _____ visit to her parents. Carl was still Charles A. Sand
[008] er the close of your tax year. _SATURDAY, SUNDAY, OR _____ ._ If the last day (due date) for performing any a
[009] payment, etc., falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal _____ , you may perform that act on the next succeeding day
[010] eeding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal _____ . Since April 15, 1962, is on Sunday your return for
[011] ld", "a phantasy with which More amused himself", "a _____ work, a spontaneous overflow of intellectual high sp
[012] hen he shouts abuse at Mrs. Joe for objecting to his _____ , she claps her hands in a tantrum, beats them "upon
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[001] every male American in this era liked to imagine (or _____ ) that he could fight with his fists. And women were
[002] for the occasion. Now times have changed, and I must _____ that hair doesn't grow on my face. That's the fashio
[003] y might well be an equal handicap. No, she would not _____ modesty, but neither must she be crudely bold. Myste
[004] an describe the fineness of an autumn day? One might _____ never to have seen one before, or, to more purpose,
[005] ch- that was the trouble. I ought to remember. Don't _____ . You do remember. You just- "Hello? Yes, this is she
[006] a, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to _____ too much assurance. That mistake, she thought, had c
[007] ked at Mr. Gorboduc. He read Henry James and used to _____ profundity through eye-beamings at people. Mr.
[008] one whose face appears on TV. This is a softy war, a _____ war. We got to watch on TV as (Mike) Hernandez toted
[009] the Candyman, a particularly elusive bandit who would _____ to buy a piece of candy - sometimes Skittles, somet
[010] ast Germany's leader, Erich Honecker, did his best to _____ he had cured the malaise by expelling "anti-social e
[011] am rubbing," replied Herbert, laughing, "but I don't _____ to do anything else but warm myself instead of shiver
[012] every male American in this era liked to imagine (or _____ ) that he could fight with his fists. And women were
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[001] m. Chief among the defects they singled out were the _____ and wearisome procedures in equity. In a long a
[002] erprises can acquire experiences of the most varied, _____ and trying type so that at maturation they have deve
[003] ace as longing was for him just the kind of deep and _____ joke he liked to tell. And when he retold the legend
[004] s and new ideals accompanied or directed the whole _____ process". The plan is admirably fulfilled for the pe
[005] e court, including John Cotton, with one of the most _____ religious discourses ever heard. Samuel Gorton
[006] sachusetts. If Gorton wanted peace and quiet for his _____ meditations this is where he should have had it. Ins
[007] year of playwriting. But Papa's death had further _____ the financing of Tom's hoped-for third year, and for
[008] a proved so fruitless. But when the situation was so _____ that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in th
[009] s. At this point, of course, the issue has become _____ by a development unforeseen by Lappenberg and Kemble
[010] ated to his illusions about his typicality is Krim's _____ feeling about his Jewishness. He writes, "Most of my
[011] d it impossible to compress in a sentence or two the _____ and prodigious contributions SAM RAYBURN has made as
[012] on because it is so massive and so widespread and so _____ , and because it goes so deep. But this we know: Here
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[001] flat is the usual time, and the space is crossed by _____ mileage, while the overwhelming immensity of such jo
[002] rthodoxy, professing to believe in Judaism "but in a _____ way". One boy said querulously about Orthodox Jews:
[003] problems, the old unreconstructed South- to use the _____ words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith- finds itself
[004] ed "Revolution Principles" and which are accepted by _____ men in both parties. The final section of this pa
[005] of land exchange authority and through purchase on a _____ scale of inholdings which comprise key tracts for re
[006] or 29 minutes. There was a slight lapse condition, a _____ fog, and 100 per cent relative humidity. A network o
[007] ild's onset ages and completion ages as "advanced", " _____ " (modal), or "delayed" according to whether the chil
[008] ppears close to the end of the transverse line, the " _____ " rating may be further classified according to the p
[009] r "somewhat delayed", as the case may be, reserving " _____ " for dots upon or close to the mean. In the low
[010] "advanced" when they appear above the middle curve, " _____ " when they appear immediately above or below the mid
[011] examination revealed diffuse muscle atrophy that was _____ in the hands and feet, but marked in the shoulders,
[012] f unsold houses in some areas of the country and the _____ rise in vacancy rates for apartments (7.6% in Septem
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[001] come spring cleaning, your fair-weather friends will _____ a hand at scrubbing and furbishing. It has happened.
[002] dy. Is it not the obligation of us older citizens to _____ our weight to being creative on the character side a
[003] el Prevost, whom the Count de Segur had persuaded to _____ his technical skills to Nassau. England contributed
[004] purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I _____ him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the Gener
[005] age in ease of audit time and payment. However, they _____ themselves to abuse and inadequate control measures.
[006] acid at 300-325` C. Dr. Douglass was kind enough to _____ us about 5 grams of his material. This material prov
[007] d their own homes. Bankers who had been reluctant to _____ without better security than the house itself got th
[008] ves them fresh clothes to put on, opens his purse to _____ them money and sits them down before a good dinner.
[009] couple of hundred. If you draw the short straw I'll _____ you some bread, like fifty bucks, before I take off
[010] fford to buy. A cousin will babysit. A brother will _____ money to his sister until the next payday. A grandmo
[011] ologically rewarding kinds of interactions that both _____ a richness to our personal experience and can be foun
[012] Travolta, Julia Roberts and Winona Ryder seeking to _____ nuance to their characters by lighting up cigarettes
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[001] ands of interior designer's training. We may then _____ the time difference between these courses and the us
[002] r hour, they know not when". Most psychiatrists _____ these instances of that weird feeling as the deja vu
[003] s the deja vue (already seen) illusion, just as they _____ dream previsions as coincidences. In this manner the
[004] utside the province of their parishes. They may even _____ it from their minds as something that concerns only
[005] el arouses serious heebie-jeebies. Highbrows easily _____ Urkel (played by Ja leel White) as the high-I. Q. ge
[006] his pervasive malady? Abrams and Gordis convincingly _____ various possible answers to the problem of maintain
[007] ring, on the other, is plausible. It would be easy to _____ the Prince as a meddling romantic. His book A Vision
[008] ring, on the other, is plausible. It would be easy to _____ the Prince as a meddling romantic. His book A Vision
[009] so involved persons who had been subpenaed, he would _____ them. _WASHINGTON, FEB. 9_ - President Kennedy
[010] ands of interior designer's training. We may then _____ the time difference between these courses and the us
[011] r hour, they know not when". Most psychiatrists _____ these instances of that weird feeling as the deja vu
[012] s the deja vue (already seen) illusion, just as they _____ dream previsions as coincidences. In this manner the