MULTI_CONC
Quiz
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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 )
bound
bow
companion
forbid
garage
multiply
reward
swallow
toe
tower
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2. WORDS
bound
bow
companion
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garage
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reward
swallow
toe
tower
[001] while I'm gone, kill it if you want". I took a short _____ from it myself and handed it to him. His "sure-
[002] "Bueno, amigo. Gracias", I hollered, my first long _____ filling me with confidence and immediately doubling
[003] is own thirst, Matsuo took out his water bottle. One _____ was all he would have; he was very thirsty, but he m
[004] i, a lean Farina coachwork on an American chassis, a _____ , a type 540- K Mercedes and lots more. There was the
[005] oreigners'". I took a deep breath and an even deeper _____ of my drink, and said, "I admit that going back to R
[006] increased prospect of brood parasitism, as the cliff _____ demonstrates. This bird nests in groups ranging from
[007] p into neighboring nests to lay eggs. The neighboring _____ usually reacts to this intrusion by tending the extra
3. WORDS
bound
bow
companion
forbid
garage
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reward
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toe
tower
[001] in patches. In time, these minor manifestations will _____ and effloresce, riddling you with frambesia, the kin
[002] ess a rule. The way to get rid of a square root is to _____ it by itself, which of course will give you whatever
[003] cules are linear while proteins range from linear to _____ branched to globular. Today's historic celebration
[004] market laws in our present position, this figure could _____ tens of times". Instead, the government intends to re
[005] and if ever I find one of those tobacco- seeds, which _____ by three hundred and sixty thousand, I assure you I w
[006] in combating this disturbing crime trend. #OFFENSES _____ # The President has also called upon the Attorney Gen
[007] decimals, becomes **f. To arrive at the answer, _____ the numbers together by starting at the left of the
4. WORDS
bound
bow
companion
forbid
garage
multiply
reward
swallow
toe
tower
[001] s a great hindrance to perpetual peace. Therefore, to _____ this credit system must be a preliminary article of p
[002] on Aquino of the Philippines stood by her decision to _____ the return of Ferdinand Marcos's body for burial, say
[003] ert, "do you despair of ever seeing him again?" "God _____ !" replied the sailor. Their work was soon done, and
[004] atole France, "The law in its majestic equality must _____ the rich, as well as the poor, from begging in the s
[005] Church laws, lately more stringently enforced, which _____ the marriage of cousins closely related consanguineo
[006] rt of stuff I write and then throw away"! "Heaven _____ "! cried the ladies, enchanted by his music. "You mus
[007] ou'll never do such a thing". Without a tremor, "God _____ "! he said, and went out and cut his throat in the ca
5. WORDS
bound
bow
companion
forbid
garage
multiply
reward
swallow
toe
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[001] She was telling herself that this might just be her _____ at the end of a long meaningful search for truth. Th
[002] ne did one's best and if fortune smiled, there was a _____ . One did one's best and if fortune frowned, an eight
[003] to Bobbie. "Bobbie will take the job as his just _____ and work hard at it; Poor John will take it as a mir
[004] was entwined with Freddy, the more likely he was to _____ Freddy richly upon his death. Whatever the reas
[005] ew as Barco's seven disclosures brought to light one _____ after another. Now did Welch truly become the man
[006] . For example, parents frequently use the promise or _____ of material goods as a device to modify or control a
[007] modify or control a child's behavior. A mother may _____ her child with a gift when the child does something
6. WORDS
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bow
companion
forbid
garage
multiply
reward
swallow
toe
tower
[001] he rusted hinges of screen doors. Even the stable- _____ , which housed nothing now but the scent of rot, had
[002] is question: Which would you like to keep in your own _____ ? Here, from the top down, is how the roadsters stack
[003] rsal use of computers -- until two kids, $500, and a _____ showed the world how to produce a computer that creat
[004] e one Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak developed in their _____ . Are any North American companies seeing the world t
[005] old company operating out of a cottage attached to a _____ is electronically importing software programmers fro
[006] ge (and that irritating buzzing sound) will be in the _____ , where the heat it produces will keep your car from
[007] condos started selling in 1979 at the Brimmer Street _____ for a mere $7,500 each. Today, they fetch $130, 000!
7. WORDS
bound
bow
companion
forbid
garage
multiply
reward
swallow
toe
tower
[001] an had said. Haney peered doubtfully at his drinking _____ through bleary, tear-filled eyes. He had no ready an
[002] place was hatred to him, just as hatred was his only _____ in his aloneness. To him they were one and the same.
[003] left him exhausted. Perhaps golf, with a fashionable _____ - but he'd lost his clubs, hadn't played in years. Th
[004] le for Cromwell to be innocent? He was your constant _____ ". The hazel eyes met Alexander's. "I tell you he
[005] after a bitter divorce from Prince Charles, and her _____ , Harrods heir Dodi Fayed, died early today after the
[006] y snapped pictures of her embracing her millionaire _____ , Dodi Fayed, aboard his yacht in the Mediterranean.
[007] roller coaster fanatic. Once, Lanza relates, his seat _____ , whom he'd never seen before, turned as they were cl
8. WORDS
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[001] reliminary estimate for a long-distance plan to free _____ oxygen in the sands of Mars to make the planet more
[002] orious voyage. But I might have known! We seem to be _____ by love; Sigmen himself must have foreseen it. Love
[003] brass, pretending I'm one of the guerrillas. There's _____ to be someone on guard, but the hat might fool them
[004] usan and Julia ripped strips from their clothing and _____ the injury. Mike tested the leg and found that he
[005] s effect I had already severed all connections which _____ me to my former existence. The flat, hard cap was sm
[006] dith grinned and took down a little triplet of books _____ together in old calfskin. Opening these he brought o
[007] tie said, still on the ladder. "You are a big muscle- _____ ape and you got this idea about setting a record. An
9. WORDS
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tower
[001] et with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water _____ , a few warehouses, a single hotel; all dusty and sun
[002] pilots' heads looked ridiculously small. The control _____ gave him immediate take-off permission, and the clea
[003] quinted at the looming shoreline. There was a wooden _____ or derrick there, something like a ski jump; it was
[004] hem he could have been the broken bell in the church _____ which rang before and after Mass, and at noon, and a
[005] ey have studied kung fu, lived in a three-story water _____ with no telephone and traveled through India. The cou
[006] nse to the carriage house. Adapting a defunct water _____ to accommodate a reflecting pool seems appropriate,
[007] mmodate a reflecting pool seems appropriate, but the _____ is not accessible to the public. The problem is solve
10. WORDS
bound
bow
companion
forbid
garage
multiply
reward
swallow
toe
tower
[001] n at the bottom of the eyelets but there was still a _____ knot at the top. The slightest twitch would have par
[002] were depraved. The marine slumped forward into a _____ like a priest before an idol. Remembering his own th
[003] ection, and he was as a speeding arrow from the taut _____ , hurtling with a mad grace, his maleness shining and
[004] carried with him an axe, a wood-handled knife, and a _____ that shot feathered arrows with stone points. A primi
[005] nd of showing up at tony wine events wearing clownish _____ ties, painfully loud shirts and sometimes a gorilla s
[006] believe we can hunt deer in just two weeks as Maryland _____ season opens Sept. 15. Virginians find Marylanders o
[007] ees?' they ask. They're probably just jealous; their _____ season doesn't open till Oct. 4. For many years I did