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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 )
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[001] se early days of growth. I like sawdust for this, or _____ . When they have 4 to 6 leaves and are thrifty lit
[002] winter comes be ready with additional mulch. I like _____ for this and apply it so that only the tops of the p
[003] nned to destroy it, after filling its two lanes with _____ and straw- but for what reason is not recorded nor r
[004] It may be a big hole in the ground filled with salt _____ , or an ice floe studded with logs. Even a neat, plas
[005] The filtered air benefits allergies, asthma, sinus, _____ fever. Control of temperature and humidity is a gods
[006] his fake machines as a cure-all for everything from _____ fever to sexual impotence and cancer. The gadge
[007] nt of the total nutrients consumed by all livestock. _____ and pasture are the other chief sources of livestock
[008] a moment or two screamed triumphantly, "You bunch of _____ -shakers! G'ahn back home! You
[009] -shakers! G'ahn back home! You _____ -shakers"! Baseball was surely the national game i
[010] that pressure fell away again, crushed beneath it. A _____ -wagon moved slowly along the gutter, the top of it s
[011] gain. If a child watched its progress he whispered, " _____ ,
[012] , _____ , load of
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[001] possible precaution, homecomings are usually rather _____ and sad, and only the perpetually ebullient and the
[002] o doubt, the Boston of that era could be exquisitely _____ in enforcing its canons of behavior. The gentle Chan
[003] hat the Negro's status in this country is not only a _____ injustice but a grave national liability. Now,
[004] ut a Jewish heart. This would make anyone crafty and _____ , capable of fiendish revenge. There is no justifi
[005] r, almost without exception, has been presented as a _____ ogress. Children, conditioned by this mistaken notio
[006] nship to Flem Snopes in both his willingness to take _____ advantage of all and sundry and the sharpness with
[007] er or any idea of trade. They despised foreigners. _____ Burmese governors could, on the slightest whim, take
[008] anthrope, substituted for that of Rousseau. How _____ ! But at the same time how understandable. How cou
[009] and wiping his hot brow. It may appear that we were _____ and callous, but no one had time to spend sympathizi
[010] vy, slack, bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the _____ , obscene banter, and had seen the pale-blue eyes go
[011] e'd give me a look out of narrowed eyes and the hard _____ bony skull would show through that smooth face of hi
[012] album in the bottom drawer of the escritoire. In the _____ clearness of her memory the boy remained unchanged,
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[001] 21 growth centers. The "dot" on one end of each _____ indicates extent of difference in months between the
[002] ing mean age for the growth center. The "tip" of the _____ represents extent of difference between the child's
[003] for these boys and girls. The direction in which the _____ points shows how the maturity level of the growth ce
[004] in this paper is "same schedule". The length of the _____ indicates amount of slowing or acceleration at Compl
[005] rence in months can be read roughly by referring the _____ to the age scale along the base of each figure, or m
[006] dily clarified by referring to Table 1. For example, _____ 17 in Figure 3 portrays the proximal radial epiphysi
[007] hereas the same epiphysis for girl 2 is portrayed by _____ 18 in Figure 4. For the boy, this epiphysis was mark
[008] the Appendix. The principles used in making each _____ for Figures 3 and 4 were applied to the construction
[009] ribed in our preceding paper in the Supplement, each _____ with a "shaft length" of four months or less was sel
[010] schedule". As an example of the interpretation of an _____ in the figure which exceeds four months in shaft len
[011] 34, like girl 2, did not have "same schedule"; his _____ crosses the line denoting the mean. The "dot" on his
[012] crosses the line denoting the mean. The "dot" on his _____ indicates early Onset and the "tip" indicates relati
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[001] seventh veil would trade a turtleneck sweater for a _____ -down collar? #A SHORT, TORMENTED SPAN# Of the hand
[002] yle: he held his reins in a loose bunch at the third _____ of his checked Epsom surtout, and when the horses le
[003] working class manner, as they are in the restrained, _____ -down Ivy way. The girls are prone to dress far more
[004] d others charged with controlling the actions of the _____ pushers and their "hardware", the answers to my ques
[005] Hundreds of men are required to pass the word to the _____ pushers and to push the buttons. What if one or more
[006] ivers at his extreme left, right next to the big red _____ marked ALERT. (There are two receivers in case one s
[007] always mesh with the fragments in possession of the _____ pushers? The answer is a cryptographic secret. At
[008] may do with them- that some crazy fool may "push the _____ ". I am certainly not adequately trained to descri
[009] n answer from the "courtier" addressed to "R. S." at _____ 's coffee-house. He reviews Steele's entrance into po
[010] se in before they returned. Greg pushed the radio _____ on his throttle. "Todman, let's try to go under this
[011] onds, Greg made his decision. He pushed the radio _____ . "Sweeney Blue, hit the deck. Lots of throttle. Todm
[012] urn and escape to the east. Greg pushed the radio _____ again. "Todman, drop your second element back. If an
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[001] West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have _____ an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try
[002] Suez-Hungary crisis proves that this system was not _____ by the new Administration, but only made more consis
[003] to blame. One of the finest soft shoe tunes ever _____ , "Once in Love with Amy" is also, of course, one of
[004] er is the greatest pectoral-ribcage stretcher ever _____ ! This is true only if a very wide grip is used and o
[005] dge was completed and opened. Timothy Palmer, who _____ and later patented the arch type of construction for
[006] is curious to see the battery of glass tubes I have _____ , I have had quite a small one made here of four glas
[007] ball of maple syrup boiled to candy consistency was _____ to hold the grains. On their frequent hikes into
[008] le few minutes. In about seven years Griffith either _____ or first realized the possibilities of virtually eve
[009] em of astronomy. Copernicus' achievement was to have _____ systematic astronomy. The Almagest and the Hypothese
[010] he one that he had perfected used only one. Thus was _____ the single thread sewing machine, which Mr. Gibbs in
[011] dence. During the Civil War period Mr. Brown also _____ the Brown + Sharpe formed tooth gear cutter, a basic
[012] n, unbroken sheer bastard in his outfit, and someone _____ the name Trig for him. That's to say, he was trigger
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[001] ger and thumb are placed when holding the motor. The _____ can be cleaned and sterilized by boiling and are det
[002] ntal figures and other objects like trees, logs, and _____ can be traced from the original sketch and moved abo
[003] oute was choked with rugged lava-rocks, creepers and _____ , so thickly overgrown that when Kearton lost sight o
[004] wood creature came floating up from a patch of berry _____ . It was a grotesque hen, five or six feet tall. It h
[005] plucked at its bark or stripped the berries from its _____ . Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest w
[006] ves intertwined in a coarse curtain against the sun. _____ and vines abetted the rocks in forming thorny detour
[007] essarily noisy. Twigs cracked loudly under her feet; _____ swished and scratched at her slacks; tree branches s
[008] e wild rolling land took over, dotted with fat round _____ like sheep. They were covered with tiny white blosso
[009] se walks, yelping with delight, dashing off into the _____ on fruitless hunting expeditions, returning to jump
[010] h two pools set about with mango trees and flowering _____ . But resort towns like Acapulco never die, they jus
[011] r power changed that. According to Mr Howell, all the _____ in Georgia were polluted by radiation, and have been
[012] a year it can take two years to return to normal; if _____ have to be uprooted, new ones take seven years to com
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[001] reaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of _____ from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fi
[002] f the American public. Cape Canaveral's achievements _____ forth from the radio, television, and newspaper.
[003] steep declivity of Talbott's (now College) Hill and _____ across the bridge to join Colonel Benjamin F. Kelley
[004] boldly write, "I know not how it is; but I hear the _____ roll; see the lightning flash; and the waves threate
[005] "My love is like a red, red rose" and Hopkins' "The _____ -purple sea- beach, plumed purple of
[006] -purple sea- beach, plumed purple of _____ " although clearly intelligible in content, hardly pr
[007] God's wrathful storms. When the skies grew dark and _____ rolled across the valley, he was unafraid. Aggie mig
[008] as good. He clenched his fists and faced the terror. _____ crashed; barrels tumbled down the mountainsides, a
[009] ed ominously in the sky again. From a great distance _____ growled and broke the silence. Land looked back t
[010] urky light. As he approached the first farmhouse, _____ sounded behind him again, closer now and louder, lik
[011] a plow. They, too, stared at him. The drums of _____ were right behind him now. A foolish thought came
[012] e sky to the east. Later, they'd heard the rumble of _____ and then, just outside Rockfork, they ran into rain.
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[001] at to pull out some of the props of our faith was to _____ the entire structure. Doubts thus inculcated left
[002] adhered to strict codes of conduct in order not to _____ that control. Men believed they could control nature
[003] e arms reduction measures are worked out we will not _____ the means of defending our institutions. America
[004] y to emotion. For this reason, then, poetry tends to _____ the power of control, the reason, because it tempts
[005] dered. Its aim: To undermine further Cuba's economy. _____ Castro. Another strategy- bolder and tougher- was
[006] uld make her give in. On the contrary, it would only _____ his position if he fumed, while she stayed calm and
[007] ralian rates should diverge and the Australian dollar _____ against the US dollar. Otherwise Australia's "old eco
[008] ow seems to be moving to empower small companies and _____ these large ones. Technology provides laser beams to
[009] fifths of the score may be practical necessities, but _____ the impact of the whole. This is not so much in narra
[010] ict between official efforts to defend the pound and _____ the dollar. The Bank's sales of Ecus for pounds were
[011] mmunity can get, but it threatens either to seriously _____ the edifice of "Project 1992" or at least to bury bus
[012] t to life. When the Supreme Court decided in July to _____ the nationwide constitutional right to abortion grant
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[001] hot. By turns, her beautifully sung Norma is fierce, _____ , venomous and pitiful. The tenor lead, Franco Corell
[002] . Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little _____ under those censures; for though their people had ve
[003] m. But he was no man in the moon to me. Although his _____ nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it fo
[004] raphy that he drew the real features of the man, his _____ and selfless motives and his rugged fearless strengt
[005] songs, however, were sweet nothings from the heart, _____ memories of his childhood, little melodies that anyo
[006] ophe in the universe, she reflected dourly, impaling _____ green beans on the silver fork, than the dwindling a
[007] im as hostage, and I wouldn't entrust a snake to his _____ care. I've got to get the boy. Let's ride". #CHAPT
[008] been so much in my thoughts, was warm and moist and _____ . I heard her murmur, "We'd better lock the door".
[009] h, Madame"? the coachman said softly. "This one is a _____ chicken, oui? Such delicate beauty, such fine flesh.
[010] he would be well advised to flee from the Lalauries' _____ care if he valued his life. But he liked the smel
[011] rd he regretted it. He should have discovered a more _____ farewell. Someone shouted at him, "Well! Will you lo
[012] produce from a restaurant supplier, he sorts through _____ baby lettuces, ruby berries and heirloom tomatoes to