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 )
bell
curl
flavor
float
lamp
rob
shower
spit
stamp
steer
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2. WORDS
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[001] e Paris Peace Conference and of the West's effort to _____ out Bolshevism at its birth boiled up within him. "Y
[002] per, together with as many or more examples of local _____ , these "non- Greek" patterns had mostly vanished b
[003] going out with him to watch this pearl without price _____ imperiously around in her stall. And what had happen
[004] wer Station is a masterpiece worth preserving, Gavin _____ argues By GAVIN
[005] argues By GAVIN _____ FROM the top of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral the v
[006] Page 23 891108 Time to restore London's pride: Gavin _____ says County Hall can still be saved to house a reviv
[007] be saved to house a revived city government By GAVIN _____ CIVIC architecture says much about a city. In Stockh
[008] A Classicism beyond the "battle of the styles": Gavin _____ believes that new building inspired by past triumphs
[009] past triumphs can be much more than pastiche By GAVIN _____ Pity the poor developer, if you can. Faced with a se
[010] ate quality of movement and motivation. This personal _____ is partly created by the unique range of Burrows" inf
[011] s are refusing to deal with the French equivalent of _____ duty. The strikers have also extended their tactics.
[012] specify the abuses that the federation is aiming to _____ out. However, there was the tacit admission of drug a
3. WORDS
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[001] ng against the side of the cup, sounded as loud as a _____ . I thought: What the hell? Why not? I said I would d
[002] Dr. James Brown Fisk, physicist, President of the _____ Telephone Laboratories, was elected to the Board of
[003] spoken". Within two weeks Warren was ringing the _____ at the abbey gate. The monk who opened the door im
[004] gentry. He clomped heavily up the stoop and rang the _____ . Like the
[005] . Like the _____ at Mass, the doorbell was pitched too high. It was s
[006] ent moonlight, lay a dead pigeon, and on the smaller _____ , the Clemence, two gray and white birds slept huddle
[007] lessly at his sergeant. Gun waited. The 7:45 _____ rang and he could hear the outside doors bang shut,
[008] uard. The man half-reached for the cord of the alarm _____ . Powers knocked his arm aside. Deliberately, with no
[009] n that little seventeen-inch screen when you rang my _____ . Man, you rang- it was in color, too, Miss, and ...
[010] ", she yelled, jingling a little five-and-dime store _____ in her right hand. "Let's go inside". "Oh, come
[011] d the Old Man. To them he could have been the broken _____ in the church tower which rang before and after Mass
[012] the cool darkness to Nadine's apartment and rang the _____ , and in a few seconds a young girl opened the door.
4. WORDS
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[001] minated for about 50 hours with a 1000 watt tungsten _____ at a distance of a few inches. The mixture was then
[002] f light source were used, a thousand watt projection _____ and an AH6 high pressure mercury arc. The light was
[003] intensity was varied by varying the distance of the _____ from the reaction cell over the range from 14.7 to 2
[004] ly proportional to the square of the distance of the _____ from the cell and that the rate is directly proporti
[005] luorescence microscope equipped with a mercury vapor _____ (Osram HBO 200). The light beam from the
[006] (Osram HBO 200). The light beam from the _____ was filtered through a half-standard thickness Corni
[007] rge and Lolotte were mending shoes. a lighted _____ stood on the table that dusky, drizzling day. They w
[008] eyeing the chickens dismally and Maude was cleaning _____ chimneys. Glendora gave a gulp. "Miss Sarah, I can't
[009] from the yard, from the circle of light cast by the _____ still burning in the house, into the darkness. #TH
[010] hal's office, a box-sized building on Main Street. A _____ burned inside, but Brannon, peering through the wind
[011] t have slept again. He was staring at the blue china _____ left on beside him. It seemed too much trouble even
[012] aturalist Pliny (first century A.D.) theorized that a _____ filled with the purest oil and fitted with a wick made
5. WORDS
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[001] dried matter in the presence of water which helps to _____ off the debris and acts, to some extent, as a dissol
[002] by the bacteria in the aeration unit and tended to _____ on the surface. A skimming device at the effluent we
[003] 's quite a big one", he added. Her face seemed to _____ in an implausibly bright shaft of sunlight. "Well, w
[004] rivers. Some burn in wrought-iron braziers, others _____ in baskets. The experience is intoxicating and nearly
[005] ing vivid colors and shapes, which appear to move and _____ within the food itself. The process fits in with mod
[006] ets, there unexpectedly stands - or rather, seems to _____ - a house of uncompromising modernity, a seemingly si
[007] publish around 25 books in the first year, and could _____ the company within five years. ’Ä¢Business & City Pag
[008] . The car was only a sort of willow basket, unable to _____ , and there was not the slightest possibility of maint
[009] the current of the Mercy having again become free, to _____ down several rafts. They could see that the cold peri
[010] ; and since it has floated here, it may just as well _____ to the mouth of the river." "You are right, captain,
[011] oaching the chest, and the high tide would evidently _____ it. One of the ropes which fastened the barrels was p
[012] as long as there was enough water under its keel to _____ it. It was both fatigue spared and time gained, for th
6. WORDS
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[001] bring variety, peak freshness, and optimum taste and _____ in foods at reasonable cost to the comsumer. Wi
[002] ve the appearance of boiled or canned meat. Off- _____ is a less severe problem with the radiopasteurizatio
[003] ed food. Are you willing to sacrifice both money and _____ for the environment? Why or why not? UNIT 5 CHA
[004] potential medicinal value of these traditional food _____ enhancers. 7 Although the terms herb and spice are s
[005] ditions clearly indicates that herbs and spices both _____ foods and inhibit microoganisms, and this allows us
[006] ry sauce with a touch of cassis brought up the gamey _____ of duck breast, and a crust of ground hazelnuts and
[007] in the laboratory. This is not an artificial vanilla _____ . It is identical to the true vanilla
[008] . It is identical to the true vanilla _____ . Almost 100 percent of true vanilla comes from the v
[009] pagation. These potatoes will be uniform in texture, _____ , and color, with improved culinary characteristics.
[010] ch full growth. At the precise time that they peak in _____ , aroma, and texture, they are picked. They can then b
[011] Switzerland -- one of the major world players in the _____ and fragrance field -- to use biotechnology to devel
[012] and that of palmipeds. Sorry game, in truth, and its _____ is far from pleasant. But Top was not so particular i
7. WORDS
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[001] wave we set up. Or maybe it's sheer xenophobia. They _____ up and die at the sight of something strange and ali
[002] it, touching the little pyre to flame, watching it _____ , the red sealing wax melting and bubbling in the fea
[003] st growth; and no limitation is in evidence. Our pin- _____ clips and self-locking nuts achieved dominance in ju
[004] wave we set up. Or maybe it's sheer xenophobia. They _____ up and die at the sight of something strange and ali
[005] it, touching the little pyre to flame, watching it _____ , the red sealing wax melting and bubbling in the fea
8. WORDS
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[001] late train? Changing his clothes upstairs? Taking a _____ ? At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with
[002] id not arrest his movements but disappeared into the _____ room just as the chambermaid emerged from number nin
[003] were assailed by new sounds from the interior of the _____ room. The events of the last quarter of an hour, mys
[004] ctor himself entered, his hair somewhat wet from the _____ , but evidently satisfied with the outcome of their a
[005] as well wait here while I'm gone, so you can use my _____ if you'd like". "Oh, I'd love to". I showed her t
[006] you'd like". "Oh, I'd love to". I showed her the _____ and tub, and she said, smiling, "If you really don't
[007] you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the _____ , then soak for a few minutes in your tub. That alway
[008] or. As I went out, I could hear water pouring in the _____ . Hot water. She wouldn't be taking a cold
[009] . Hot water. She wouldn't be taking a cold _____ . Hell, she couldn't. Bryn Mawr Drive is only two
[010] and hurled them at the girl. The sticks fell like a _____ around her and she felt them sting her flesh and sen
[011] and there was a tan young man, quite naked, taking a _____ in the pool. I was thoroughly startled". Richar
[012] The story of how Zeus came to Danae in the form of a _____ of gold was a longtime favorite with painters - Titi
9. WORDS
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[001] d. He blew his nose expertly between his fingers. He _____ . He half sat up and scratched at the hair on his for
[002] Cross in the Korean War; that his baby sister could _____ up through her nose when she felt like it; that he
[003] 28 by Cossacks who built a prison on a Yenisei River _____ called Krasny Yar. A city grew up around the prison, b
[004] orter. Then, Neb helping him, the seaman arranged the _____ , and the capybara, properly cleaned, was soon roasti
[005] species of kangaroos to me, that is 'kangaroo on the _____ ,' and it's just the one we haven't got this evening!"
[006] to service. He brushed their clothes, he turned the _____ , he waited at table, he swept the rooms, he gathered
[007] man's hands. They cursed Him. It was permitted. Men _____ on Him. God allowed it. They called Him a devil. God
[008] e up sin and prepare for heaven. You may refuse Him, _____ on Him, call Him a devil, curse Him. It is permitted
[009] es in front of meat that is barbecued on an electric _____ . Make use of the back of the barbecue or of the hood
[010] o make sure thermometer does not touch the revolving _____ or hit the coals. Don't practice a new recipe on
[011] moon disappeared, the frightened toad had begun to _____ it out again, which meant good luck all around. H
[012] n old-timer swore by the saliva method; "get a bite, _____ on it" was a proverb. This was used also for bruises
10. WORDS
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[001] and flung him away. "God's name, what are you to _____ the dead with the fight going on"! Cousin Simmons ro
[002] , though it was not yet ten A.M. "I loused it", _____ said, with a savage note in his voice. "All I have t
[003] ad with the breathing"? "The equipment was fine", _____ stated, standing up. He was a huge young man of twen
[004] rself. So you turn around". "No, it wasn't that", _____ said. A note of awe came into his voice. "When I cam
[005] again". "That's my boy"! Mr. Forsythe exclaimed. " _____ 's not going to give up as easy as all that". He was
[006] nder whether it was wise for Robinson to dive again: _____ was his boy, the kid he had rescued from the streets
[007] e object of his pride. "Why", he went on, "when _____ asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I d
[008] he ever had, six, seven- how many years ago was it, _____ "? "Seven years ago, Commodore",
[009] "? "Seven years ago, Commodore", _____ said impassively. He was thinking, big deal: skipper
[010] night. Aloud he had said, making conversation: " _____ tells me he's using your Atlantis equipment on the d
[011] r particular branch of the boost; i.e., burglars who _____ while the tenants are absent, in contrast to hot-slo
[012] ents masterminded by the architects Terry Farrell and _____ Krier for the Dutch developer MAB. The more people g