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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 )
artificial
attraction
brick
bunch
elder
envelope
qualifications
rice
sheep
splendid
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[001] ath last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic _____ Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate
[002] ur company there are four of us here with guns", the _____ man told Rickards. The pilot radioed El Paso Interna
[003] atrolman Gilman, all unarmed, with the Beardens. The _____ Bearden had one pistol in his hand, the other in a h
[004] peech does not encourage respect for that or for his _____ statesmanship. #QUEEN OF THE SEAS# The Queen Mary
[005] television series, contain "conversations with the _____ wise men of our day". These sages include poet Ca
[006] sive trapdoors for the use of the villains. Eldon _____ , who designed the stage, also created a gay, spaciou
[007] among them Melville, Hawthorne, and Henry James the _____ , all of them out of a Christian background. #REFORM
[008] art form". The Bishop of Gloucester described the _____ Thomas in 1577 as the richest recusant in his dioces
[009] oyce Hobday, widow of a Stratford glover. Thomas the _____ married twice, had seventeen children, and died in
[010] ed to this plot. He talked about it to the Presiding _____ . The Presiding
[011] . The Presiding _____ looked him over rather carefully. He was not sure wh
[012] church organization. He emphasized to the Presiding _____ the plan of giving up the old church and moving acro
3. WORDS
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brick
bunch
elder
envelope
qualifications
rice
sheep
splendid
[001] n after 10 A.M., when police reached the 1-1/2-story _____ home in the Franklin Manor section, 15 miles south o
[002] state's expert. The property included a one-story _____ manufacturing building on 8,293 square feet of land.
[003] ll under review, for clay-mining companies that make _____ and tile products. The measure allows such companies
[004] , the furniture to fit into rooms with tiled floors, _____ or paneled walls, windows that bring in the outdoors
[005] et their apple pies at the local bakery, which had a _____ oven fired with redwood billets. The merit of the pi
[006] ncluding lumber, asphalt shingles, glass block, face _____ , plaster, lime, hardboard, gypsum wallboard and shea
[007] by buying his bricks in convenient, easy-to-spot 100- _____ packages. The SCR process, with its precision corne
[008] ines, its working level scaffold, and its hand-level _____ supply takes eight manhours to get set, but once rea
[009] ambassador's suite was now jagged walls of blackened _____ . This damage had been done in the battle of Vient
[010] hat Shah Abbas /2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked _____ , tile, and stone, the present bridge. It is a splend
[011] s barely above the level of the river. Out of water, _____ , and tile they have made far more than just a bridge
[012] st and elegant place to Ann Hasseltine Judson. Solid _____ buildings painted dazzling white, large domes and ta
4. WORDS
artificial
attraction
brick
bunch
elder
envelope
qualifications
rice
sheep
splendid
[001] no longer masters of themselves, and an irresistible _____ drew them towards this mysterious place as the magne
[002] tions of President Kennedy". He called for a greater _____ of industry and a stop to the piracy of industry by
[003] ESCAPE'S Bonanza room has a real bonanza in its new _____ , the versatile "Kings /4, Plus Two". This is the
[004] the Stone Harbor bird sanctuary, 31 acres of magic _____ for exotic herons, is threatened, but the battlefron
[005] Peep Show" at 15th and M streets nw. have an added _____ - the view of a fossilized cypress swamp. Twenty feet
[006] r the benefit of "those who, finding not so great an _____ in accounts of military moves and counter- moves,
[007] Movement itself was the chief and often the only _____ of the primitive movies of the nineties. Each film c
[008] ature and- especially in the remarkable story of the _____ and conflict between two so disparate and fervent ch
[009] l and Sadie drawn outside their family circle by the _____ of suitors, Rachel by Joe Jastrow, and Sadie by Max
[010] iere, since the French were footing the bill and the _____ , wherever it had been done, had proven popular. This
[011] tent. However, a major factor in binding dirt is the _____ between surfaces that goes under the name of van der
[012] f one kind is charged and the other kind is not, the _____ will be intensified and the tendency to agglomerate
5. WORDS
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brick
bunch
elder
envelope
qualifications
rice
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splendid
[001] rned from Saturday's victory to next week's problem: _____ University. The Mustangs don't play this week.
[002] t for sophomore center Mike Kelsey and fullback Mike _____ , Meek expects the squad to be physically sound for
[003] , Meek expects the squad to be physically sound for _____ . "Kelsey is very doubtful for the
[004] . "Kelsey is very doubtful for the _____ game", Meek said. "He'll be out of action all this w
[005] s definitely some ligament damage in his knee". _____ has not played since injuring a knee in the opener w
[006] ek, then taper off". SMU will play the Owls at _____ Stadium in Houston in a night game Saturday, Oct. 21
[007] the Owl's game with LSU, was back working out with _____ Monday, and John Nichols, sophomore guard, moved bac
[008] River has interposed a new crisis. South Viet Nam's _____ surplus for next year- more than 300,000 tons- may h
[009] ealtime ritual in the Zendo consists in offerings of _____ to the spiritual beings". Modern Zen presentation to
[010] of cold boiled haddock, mix with a cupful of cooked _____ , two minced hard-boiled eggs, some buttery white sau
[011] th Koreans threw away their guns and fled across the _____ paddies. Artillery and air strikes were called in to
[012] f Laos, he explained- about two million of them- are _____ farmers, and the means and motives of modern war are
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[001] s to ascertain if it would not be possible to make an _____ harbor there by means of dams. In this way, the "Bon
[002] - water, the entrance was closed by the sea. But the _____ light, which escaped in long streams from the skyligh
[003] aculty advisers are too familiar with the useful but _____ mechanisms of student government to be taken in by "
[004] aise ... the wages of the mechanic by any forced and _____ means". Compare this statement of a nineteenth-ce
[005] takes place in the eighteenth century. What a silly, _____ way of life, Chabrier and his librettists chuckle. B
[006] of the Stadium Symphony. A WOMAN who undergoes _____ insemination against the wishes of her husband is th
[007] he Engineers, Lake Texoma was only one of thirty-two _____ lakes and reservoirs which were used for recreation
[008] ommittee of the Federal Council of Churches ratified _____ methods of birth control. "As to the necessity", the
[009] eds used in cooking and beverages include fenugreek ( _____ maple flavor) and cardamom. White pepper is the grou
[010] ke time to enjoy the beauty of natural reflection of _____ light. My train arrived in Hiroshima at the awful
[011] rather successful technique for building protective _____ environments. One wonders about its applicability to
[012] licate as they are- by way of protesting against the _____ refinements which had come to dominate the polite le
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[001] to me that he must be handsome, tall, strong, with a _____ beard, radiant hair, and that he must be seated on cl
[002] emperature than the preceding winter. But then, what _____ fires blazed continually on the hearths of Granite Ho
[003] , one after the other, the pictures hanging from the _____ tapestries of the partitions, the chef- d'oeuvres of
[004] elf, for the Dallas defensive unit turned in another _____ effort against Denver, and the Texans were able to
[005] yer was the first to feel its teeth. After playing a _____ first nine holes in 34- two strokes under par- on th
[006] He bought up Cezannes, Braques, Matisses, Legers, a _____ Picasso series, more than 70 Giacometti sculptures.
[007] there is no violation of artistry or logic here. _____ , too, is the performance of Yuri Tolubeyev, one of R
[008] could never get enough. They were rewarded with _____ , exciting, singing. Her "Rockabye Your Baby" was as
[009] First Flyer (Frisco Flyer-Castle Light) looks like a _____ candidate for the Illinois Stakes. His best time is
[010] e fell in. Nevertheless, it remained one of the most _____ churches of the Eastern Empire, where the Byzantine
[011] the Lord their jaws to break"". Charles Thiot, a _____ Georgia soldier, differed from most of his comrades
[012] hen turn left on the Via dei Canestrani to enter the _____ Piazza Navona, one of the truly glorious sights in R
8. WORDS
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[001] in the corral. Neither the accustomed bleating of the _____ nor Ayrton's voice could be heard. "Let us enter," s
[002] f North Plains won grand champion honors of the 4- H _____ showman contest. Blue ribbons went to Stephanie Shaw
[003] titive business more profitable for beef, dairy, and _____ men. The target chart quickly and briefly tells y
[004] rations you are feeding your beef, dairy cattle, and _____ are adequately balanced with protein, vitamins, and
[005] in per ton. To reduce vibrionic abortion in breeding _____ , feed 80 milligrams per head daily. #DRUG'S CHEMIC
[006] ac _WHAT IT DOES:_ An aid in getting cattle and _____ on full feed, in improving feed conversion and growt
[007] EP FATTENING RATIONS_ - The recommended level for _____ is 2 milligrams daily, and this level should be main
[008] feed, add phenothiazine to supply 0.5 to 1 gram per _____ daily. _CAUTION:_ Continuous administration is
[009] with his sheepskin flying boots pulled over them. A _____ -lined leather flying suit, plus helmet, goggles and
[010] and Argentina, where extensive grazing lands support _____ or cattle, and the consumption of meat is high.
[011] single paddock, a ten-by-ten-mile square owned by a _____ grazer. They went well-equipped with everything exce
[012] did Weep, Men a-crowing likes asses, And living like _____ . Oh, can't hold the han' of my love! Can't hold her
9. WORDS
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brick
bunch
elder
envelope
qualifications
rice
sheep
splendid
[001] nity basis. But with today's demand for professional _____ and specialized training, the need for "outsiders" b
[002] wever, the "outsider" is likely to have professional _____ of the highest order (otherwise the college would no
[003] or. If it will simply delay the debates until the _____ are closed next spring, and then carry all the candi
[004] by a veto. What is interesting is that his positive _____ for the post were revealed only as a kind of tail to
[005] our parochial ideas about him, but with these two _____ , the statement stands. The statement also points to
[006] en more scarce due to the demanding combination of _____ called for by this type of management work. The grow
[007] ewhat shortsighted since if the absolute educational _____ for membership which the organizations profess are e
[008] s of teaching may but more likely may not have these _____ . Nor will the hack, the Jack-of-all-trades, still
[009] cation between every pair of points. This, and other _____ , make the cocktail party the most complete and most
[010] science and technology. Nevertheless, with all these _____ and exceptions, the current dystopian phenomenon rem
[011] h the year on personnel needs, plans for the future, _____ of those on the job, and bright prospects elsewhere.
[012] e reviews and reports to the administration on the _____ of candidates. Some faculty members and many admin
10. WORDS
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attraction
brick
bunch
elder
envelope
qualifications
rice
sheep
splendid
[001] "keep", and by using the Postmaster's name on every _____ (in caps, of course, with the "in spite" as faded as
[002] he debt. The check had been mailed from Chicago, the _____ bore no return address, and the check was not signed
[003] shed note, written in pencil upon the back of a used _____ , and addressed to the coroner, makes one wonder abou
[004] would pick it up and look at it often. It had a tiny _____ tied to its wrist. An accompanying sympathetic lette
[005] panying sympathetic letter explained that inside the _____ was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.
[006] turning her eyes to the future. The name inside the _____ was "Cynthia". The Coolidges' life, after the dea
[007] t. Each letter contained a postage-prepaid return _____ by regular mail for addresses in the Pacific Northwe
[008] company as determined by the postmark on the return _____ . All responses, except comments, were numerically co
[009] Cascading of single stages, enclosed in one common _____ . Cascading single stages by coupling lens systems
[010] ated. Cascaded single stages enclosed by a common _____ have been constructed with high gain and high resolu
[011] k. But the Blevins were away; their maid gave him an _____ with a check in it and shut the door. Turning in at
[012] became the center of my existence. I lived to see an _____ of hers in the morning mail and to lock myself in my