MULTI_CONC
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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 )
ambitious
awkward
carriage
fur
rival
rubber
sew
suspicious
temper
towel
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2. WORDS
ambitious
awkward
carriage
fur
rival
rubber
sew
suspicious
temper
towel
[001] unged suddenly into cold water, acquired an excellent _____ . Other instruments, of course roughly fashioned, were
[002] h careful culture would soon improve, and which would _____ the regimen on which the settlers had till then subs
[003] adequately met by collegiate institutions, which in _____ and tone closely resembled junior colleges and finis
[004] ge for the IND, this takes a daily toll of time and _____ . The Transit Authority has recently placed in ope
[005] ngers change trains. Without question, this time and _____ saver should be immediately installed at the Woodsid
[006] ational frustration cannot be imagined. As the civic _____ rises, the more naive citizens begin to play soldier
[007] , a fiery redhead who can impress you that she has a _____ whether she really has one or not, plays Ellen, and
[008] dern democratic society. Mr. Lyford gives voice to a _____ that represents, we think, an achieved plateau of re
[009] s perpetually engaged in a battle to command his own _____ . When Littlepage was introduced, if the General b
[010] he young child learns from parents and teachers that _____ tantrums, screaming, kicking, and hitting will not g
[011] rton hesitated. He did not trust Rankin, his violent _____ , his killer instinct. But ten years in prison had ta
[012] hick hair was the color and texture of charcoal. Her _____ sparked like charcoal when it first lights up. And a
3. WORDS
ambitious
awkward
carriage
fur
rival
rubber
sew
suspicious
temper
towel
[001] re to us," Bromley says, a verbal throwing in of the _____ . Even at the World Cup finals next year there will be
[002] lature. Actually, Davis would have to toss in the _____ soon anyway. Many legislators are already weary and
[003] is Prince Sihanouk that he is ready to throw in the _____ . "I have to see the facts", is the way the prince pu
[004] em. They were damp. He reached out and felt the bath _____ hanging on the
[005] hanging on the _____ rack over the tub. Damp also. He looked around the r
[006] som. "Any news"? "Not a thing". He tossed her a _____ , then repeated the service for Poet. "Cigarette"?
[007] ty of trying to run his life". Anne picked up the _____ she was hemming for the hospital guild. "Just becaus
[008] re to us," Bromley says, a verbal throwing in of the _____ . Even at the World Cup finals next year there will be
[009] lature. Actually, Davis would have to toss in the _____ soon anyway. Many legislators are already weary and
[010] is Prince Sihanouk that he is ready to throw in the _____ . "I have to see the facts", is the way the prince pu
[011] em. They were damp. He reached out and felt the bath _____ hanging on the
[012] hanging on the _____ rack over the tub. Damp also. He looked around the r
4. WORDS
ambitious
awkward
carriage
fur
rival
rubber
sew
suspicious
temper
towel
[001] t difficult to catch. They were giants with long gray _____ ; but if I am not mistaken, there exist black and red
[002] stards, wild ducks, snipes, in short, game both with _____ and feathers, fell victims to their arrows, and that,
[003] to apply glamor touches to her hubby, Ray Lenobel's _____ firm here. Typical touch: She sold a $10,000 morning
[004] lso an ex-singer. In honor of the Wackers' new baby. _____ goodness sake! @ ## EMCEE Jack Herbert insists D
[005] any which resented the intrusion of farmers into the _____ traders' empire. The mercenaries were little interes
[006] been anticipated in their move southward by British _____ traders. For many years the Northwest Company had it
[007] Joseph Renville and Alexis Bailly- continued in the _____ business. On Big Stone Lake near the headwaters of t
[008] livestock were to be made good. Hercules L. Dousman, _____ trader and merchant at Prairie du Chien, contracted
[009] eople, including Pierre Bottineau and other American _____ Company employees and the refugees from Fort Garry
[010] , St. Paul, was to become an important center of the _____ trade and was to take on a new interest for those Se
[011] .. She is well-educated and refined, all wildcat and _____ , and Union from the muzzle to the crupper". Hum
[012] Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her _____ coat when she came in, and take care of her needs. M
5. WORDS
ambitious
awkward
carriage
fur
rival
rubber
sew
suspicious
temper
towel
[001] hange rate _ should be left to them, too. But however _____ Mrs Thatcher may be of managed exchange rate systems
[002] Cyrus," said the reporter, "there seems to be nothing _____ in this water." "No, my dear Spilett," replied the en
[003] up for an instant, but as at the first time, nothing _____ was seen. If some marine monster had been surprised
[004] of man revealed. The explorers could not discover one _____ trace. It was evident that the woodman's axe had nev
[005] ly sleeping to think of. But, as roarings of rather a _____ nature had been heard during the evening, a good fire
[006] was on the sea, and even with the telescope nothing _____ could be discovered. There was nothing either on the
[007] the light of his lantern on all sides. He saw nothing _____ . When the engineer had reached the last rounds he ca
[008] searched the thickets of the vast forest, but nothing _____ ever appeared. Neither Top nor Jup, who accompanied
[009] of the coast of the island had now been made, and no _____ appearances had been observed. If any mysterious bein
[010] e had explored the well, without discovering anything _____ . The final resolve taken, in consequence of this con
[011] it is indeed Lord Glenarvan's yacht, for I should be _____ of any other vessel. These are ill- famed seas, and
[012] they had now good reason for considering her to be a _____ vessel! Had the engineer, then, been right in his pr
6. WORDS
ambitious
awkward
carriage
fur
rival
rubber
sew
suspicious
temper
towel
[001] or stitch to be marked. #BACKSTITCHING SEAM# _TO _____ SEAMS WITH BACKSTITCH:_ Most seams are sewn with
[002] e. Do not draw yarn too tight. See illustration. _TO _____ IN SLEEVES:_ Place sleeve seam at center underarm
[003] I'll bet you have a lot of fun. Do you like to _____ ? Does making your own clothes or even doll clothes,
[004] clothes, interest you? Do you love to run up a hem, _____ on buttons, make neat buttonholes? If you do, go to
[005] market for this line of work. Some women can sit and _____ , crochet, tat or knit by the hour, and look calm and
[006] now the family buttons have fallen off and I have to _____ them back on, or get out the safety pins. Then ag
[007] or stitch to be marked. #BACKSTITCHING SEAM# _TO _____ SEAMS WITH BACKSTITCH:_ Most seams are sewn with
[008] e. Do not draw yarn too tight. See illustration. _TO _____ IN SLEEVES:_ Place sleeve seam at center underarm
[009] I'll bet you have a lot of fun. Do you like to _____ ? Does making your own clothes or even doll clothes,
[010] clothes, interest you? Do you love to run up a hem, _____ on buttons, make neat buttonholes? If you do, go to
[011] market for this line of work. Some women can sit and _____ , crochet, tat or knit by the hour, and look calm and
[012] now the family buttons have fallen off and I have to _____ them back on, or get out the safety pins. Then ag
7. WORDS
ambitious
awkward
carriage
fur
rival
rubber
sew
suspicious
temper
towel
[001] - employed. There are flashes here and there of more _____ screen writing. While Falstaff (Robbie Coltrane) is d
[002] le to sort out. CB is also most unlikely to reach its _____ goal of generating half its earnings outside France
[003] pect battle to commence given these circumstances is _____ . A more likely scenario is that GM and Ford will vie
[004] is mixed constituency of prosperous urban merchants, _____ Jat farmers and the inevitable hordes of illiterate
[005] Maharajah's son, Vishwendra Singh. An energetic and _____ figure who was recently elected chairman of the local
[006] 's mass Popular Front movement yesterday approved an _____ plan for independent statehood in the biggest challe
[007] idential elections scheduled for next month, but his _____ young colleague, Mr Nemeth, will have no such consola
[008] his first of this, Cecere laying the ball off to the _____ young man whose crisp drive was a powerful argument
[009] d, it presented itself. Instigated by princes equally _____ and less sagacious and more unscrupulous than he was,
[010] Apart from the aged care plan the President's most _____ and costly proposals were for federal scholarships,
[011] al company to impart instruction. RCA Victor has an _____ and useful project in a stereo series called "Advent
[012] geles and John F. Kennedy was still only an able and _____ Senator who yearned for the power and responsibility
8. WORDS
ambitious
awkward
carriage
fur
rival
rubber
sew
suspicious
temper
towel
[001] de; and one yet to be proven, anyway. There are such _____ critics as Fred Bergsten, of the Institute of Interna
[002] ect today. The boost to disposable income comes at an _____ time, when the economic slowdown is not sufficiently
[003] oth government and opposition are grappling with the _____ consequences of an upsurge of religious tension inspi
[004] ce is that he had very difficult decisions to make in _____ circumstances and while England's international team
[005] ck Skelton, Picnic had proved to possess a distinctly _____ streak. But he answered all the difficult questions t
[006] There the river was eighty feet in breadth, which was _____ to cross, but as Pencroft had taken upon himself to
[007] rcement and fiscal policies. The Mayor is finding it _____ to campaign against his own record. State Contr
[008] y prides itself on being. ## OVER ALL these fairly _____ problems Khrushchev was to skate rather lightly; and
[009] rmalize the emancipation. An eyewitness recalled how _____ the red-turbaned colored women appeared as they curt
[010] is always wrong" and the question raised is about as _____ as the one concerned with the chicken and the egg.
[011] een or heard. What were they to do, then, with these _____ judgments of value? To find a place for them in thei
[012] the flashlight beam into the pit. The body lay in an _____ sprawl twelve or fifteen feet below the level of the
9. WORDS
ambitious
awkward
carriage
fur
rival
rubber
sew
suspicious
temper
towel
[001] ver- simplifications of the extended debate about the _____ merits of modernism, neo-classicism and various form
[002] - to accept the broad terms for a dialogue among the _____ Afghan groups. The main stumbling block to this was th
[003] date this year. Mr Kishen prudently praised his royal _____ , but he felt her appeal would be limited to Deeg and
[004] final climb of Sally Gap did he clinch victory as his _____ , Gary Baker, was struggling back from two punctures.
[005] , the unblooded England left- back, though oddly his _____ , Nigel Winterburn, did more rampaging on Saturday; ne
[006] of its chest. Herbert recognized it as the ferocious _____ of the tiger, as formidable as the puma, which is the
[007] of the tiger, as formidable as the puma, which is the _____ of the largest wolf! The jaguar advanced and gazed ar
[008] e a fan, and which by the brilliancy of their plumage _____ the golden pheasants. A few days afterwards, Herbert
[009] s Mayor. In an apparent effort to head off such a _____ primary slate, Mr. Wagner talked by telephone yester
[010] ss- D New York-Pennsylvania League, are the probable _____ pitchers. Twenty-one-year-old Milt Pappas and Jer
[011] rm a new government it must deal with one of the two _____ parties which gained strength. Inevitably this means
[012] ing of the Revised Standard Version, 1946-52. #NOT _____ # The New English Bible (the Old Testament and Apocry
10. WORDS
ambitious
awkward
carriage
fur
rival
rubber
sew
suspicious
temper
towel
[001] ts as they smashed their way in, beat reporters with _____ hoses and steel bars, confiscated camera equipment a
[002] eration Cup. With Clare Wood having lost the opening _____ of their second-round encounter against Austria to J
[003] on bars and agreement by prison boards to substitute _____ in 20 per cent of metal. _2._ An agreement allo
[004] e .264, .300 H+H, .338, .375 and .458. Shotgun-type _____ recoil pads are standard on all of the Magnums excep
[005] (about $310), with integral muzzle brakes and heavy _____ recoil pads; they weigh around nine pounds. A s
[006] d. They advertised harness polish, liniments, Ball's _____ Boots, Green River Whiskey, Hood's Sarsaparilla, p
[007] easuring the expansion of the heart is to tie a thin _____ tube, filled with mercury, around the heart and reco
[008] unt the company spends on a particular fringe. U. S. _____ Company, New York, passes out a form itemizing the v
[009] h. Plastics are easier to handle than the vulcanized _____ formerly used, and they save time and money. Plaster
[010] mic properties of an ideal gas that are analogous to _____ -like deformation. The internal energy of an ideal ga
[011] eel of it, whether it was made of wood, iron, cloth, _____ , and so on. And he could recognize, by touch alone,
[012] h are relatively near the centers of our cities- the _____ factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S.S