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 )
accustomed
cultivated
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explosion
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miserable
stove
theater
tide
wrist
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2. WORDS
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[001] ategists in Taiwan stress the great sense of family, _____ in China over thousands of years. It has not been ex
[002] for long. Mr. Sansom is English, bearded, formidably _____ , the versatile author of numerous volumes of short s
[003] ikes. The Unitarian clergy were an exclusive club of _____ gentlemen- as the term was then understood in the Ba
[004] umes. A forest crop that has not been extensively _____ is ivory nuts from the tagua palm. The so-called veg
[005] n extracts from kola nuts, the seed of the kola tree _____ in the West Indies and South America. Cereal gr
[006] e to do it. A few professional baseball players _____ eccentricities, with the encouragement of the p
[007] the unbound periodical stockroom. Spiritual life is _____ , but students do not need to be Christian. They have
[008] on you the affection of your men. He had accordingly _____ eccentricity to the point of second nature. Undernea
[009] ke enjoyed his new social position tremendously, and _____ in himself those traits necessary to its preservatio
[010] thought she was. Even her voice had taken on a more _____ tone. This was someone who'd come down in the world,
[011] r audience attest. But with his black nail polish and _____ angst, Harris' Mark is a long way from the kid doctor
[012] by 14 diamonds that adorned her engagement ring. She _____ her image, and if there is an early photo of her in o
3. WORDS
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[001] up and down the staircases of the old New Amsterdam _____ , N.Y. But watching Mrs. Cyril Ring, Berniece Dalton
[002] gary crisis before them, is the belief that the main _____ of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of A
[003] Hersey novel; Advise and Consent, lively but shallow _____ drawn from the mountainously detailed bestseller; Fa
[004] he engagement was supposed to be all set for the big _____ in McCormick Place, which Sol Hurok, ballet booker e
[005] hat pale sustenance, despair. The WARWICK MUSICAL _____ presents "Where's Charley?" with music and lyri
[006] ove with Amy again last night at the Warwick Musical _____ , and Shelley Berman was to blame. One of the fi
[007] rson in his own right, Mr. Berman. The Broadway _____ League of Rhode Island presents C. Edwin Knill's and
[008] wild Jewish folk-dance that is really great musical _____ . Martin Tahse has established quite a reputation
[009] t of every person hereabouts who enjoys good musical _____ . LOEW'S
[010] . LOEW'S _____ presents "Where the Boys are", an MGM picture produ
[011] l narrator. The Ireland we usually hear about in the _____ is a place of bitter political or domestic unrest, l
[012] are the most important recent events in the New York _____ . They serve to contradict a popular notion that t
4. WORDS
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[001] e would be a new high in statesmanlike folly. #THE _____ TURNS# When East Germans fled to the West by the tho
[002] gender hope, at least on the Catholic side. For the " _____ is well on the turn", as the London Catholic weekly
[003] es not. Fifteen years ago, troubled by the rising _____ of materialism in the post-war world, a businessman
[004] lers at all seasons of the year, and at all Times of _____ . "We, the Subscribers, do agree, that as soon as
[005] termination of the epicenter of the quake and alerts _____ stations near the epicenter for a tsunami. By means
[006] uncivil and inhuman practices at Portsmouth; yet the _____ is too strong against us, and I fear (if the framer
[007] uest of Britain. Even before the century was out the _____ of reaction had set in. Charles Plummer in the intro
[008] e town and sea power rolling in glassy swells as the _____ came in. Across the bay the Palisades were heavy in
[009] ish we were in a position to offer a little money to _____ them over". I said I wished we were, too. It was
[010] iconderoga folded a few minutes too soon, before the _____ changed, still honest and stupid- and the network of
[011] Atlanta, Birmingham and Nashville. The development _____ that has swept across the Florida Panhandle has washe
[012] more than a year after he started trying to turn the _____ ; and one yet to be proven, anyway. There are such aw
5. WORDS
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miserable
stove
theater
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[001] oo much. They were both discouraged, disgusted and _____ . Mary decided she had had enough. Without any def
[002] boring Communist marauders and otherwise making life _____ for neighboring South Viet Nam and Thailand, insists
[003] side would the Mainland Chinese army fight? The _____ people of China, the largest cast ever conscripted t
[004] adway youngsters who, as the adopted son, makes life _____ for nearly everybody and Larkin in particular. And
[005] ew well. Then off again, rushing to keep up. We were _____ . But our two Jeep mates- Keo Viphakone from Luang
[006] ted at being so preoccupied with the state of my own _____ soul. I found myself becoming one of that group of p
[007] nt on: she had cried, she had implored, she had been _____ at his refusal, and finally he had relented- and now
[008] a man, and that because Gratt Shafer was making you _____ , you were passing it down to him, to Gratt Shafer's
[009] r charity ward. The moment I walked in, the whole _____ feeling of the day seemed to focus on the woman in t
[010] had on only a topcoat, but I wasn't cold. I was just _____ . Pretty soon a woman came along carrying a folded
[011] , but it was an awfully sad smile. She was even more _____ than me. Her eyes were smiling, too, but so sadly, a
[012] oker and male secretaries. Meanwhile, he had this _____ cold, and as he leaned against the refrigerator, wat
6. WORDS
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[001] ation. We, therefore, considered the "suggestion" an _____ to our intelligence, ethics, Bill of Rights, etc. Ou
[002] so contemporary to a public inured to the humor of _____ , raised chuckles. The simple-minded comedy of Dogber
[003] protest. It is a notion which contains a gratuitous _____ , implying, as it does, that Negroes can make no move
[004] bjective sat, brooding over all. Gouge, burn, blast, _____ it as they would, could anyone really take Papa-san?
[005] go back to doing the dishes now". It was meant to _____ him, and didn't quite succeed. He took the reins jus
[006] that moved in her. When at last she could suffer the _____ no longer, nor face the girl's scorn, she said in a
[007] ery opening of "A Vision of Britain', his slanderous _____ again appears, and with no apology. He says: "It was
[008] ance down. The French messenger Mountjoy, bringing an _____ from the Dauphin, is met with a fierce defiance that
[009] rmers and hardliners, Mr Nemeth conjured up the best _____ of the day when he referred to his opponents as "Sto
[010] the Welsh XV did to Bridgend on Saturday was to add _____ to severely injured pride. In all honesty we should h
[011] hard work for that sort of money and I consider it an _____ ," Austin said of the earlier award. If he wins the nex
[012] Bull," he considered he had reached the last limits of _____ . The sun had now completely risen, and the whole faca
7. WORDS
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[001] ed later than the next day. A helpful leaflet may be _____ in the letter. _2)_ The pastor calls in the hom
[002] panels standard so that the house can be completely _____ in a matter of three or four days. Then you can do
[003] parts, they actually lead their lives in a vast self- _____ Jewish cosmos with relatively little contact with th
[004] the assistant schoolmaster. When Sir Edward Greville _____ the town commons on the Bancroft, Quiney and others
[005] lready pupated and become adults. But they are still _____ in their larval cells and remain there throughout th
[006] plane. The trompe-l'oeil illusion here is no longer _____ between parallel flatnesses, but seems to thrust thr
[007] TSEM tubes), _(E)_ Cascading of single stages, _____ in one common envelope. Cascading single stages
[008] pport cannot be tolerated. Cascaded single stages _____ by a common envelope have been constructed with high
[009] e drainage ditch and the beginning of the fence that _____ the farm. He climbed back to the road, and he felt
[010] atmosphere that was somehow grotesquely alive. It _____ her clammy hands and twined around her ankles. It cr
[011] sed her eyes, remembering the small French cemetery, _____ by stone walls. It had always seemed to rain there,
[012] no one on the beach could see him here. Here he was _____ and safe. (If a dragon or a sea monster came along,
8. WORDS
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cultivated
enclosed
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[001] sometimes for tart epigrams, once in a while for an _____ in the middle of your fixed ideas. A gray fox w
[002] could all let ourselves go, there would be quite an _____ . And then think how little hydrogen we have in us co
[003] fantasies. We seemed to be witnessing the population _____ right in our own backyards. Our respective families
[004] uption. The most infamous of all was launched by the _____ of the island of Krakatoa in 1883; it raced across t
[005] ic observation of any portion of the electrical wire _____ . The shutter consists of two parts: a fast-opening p
[006] nly about 1 percent of what it was an hour after the _____ . But the radiation may be so intense at the start th
[007] fficient kinetic energy to produce large terrestrial- _____ craters may nevertheless melt only small quantities
[008] ne. That was when the gun went off. Yet even that _____ did not mean much. Guns were going off all over Wash
[009] ted solidly on the man's temple, felling him. The _____ of the rifle had crashed against the walls of the st
[010] carefully. Two minutes later it came again- a double _____ , followed by a third, sounding more distant. As
[011] istory (not due to natural causes) was a $1.6-billion _____ at a petrochemical plant in 1989. This accident repre
[012] ination of what they call 'the post- Watergate Ethics _____ ' - one of my pet theories is that a tongue-twisting
9. WORDS
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[001] for family temptations such as refrigerator and gas _____ . During this precarious period of development the
[002] e the table ready and a pot of coffee hissing on the _____ ; then a porter from Manning's Fish House would trot
[003] t a restaurant, and 100% more fun. You need a little _____ , a coffee pot and a stew pot; maybe a skillet, a bas
[004] ming a wine is to force it by putting it next to the _____ or in front of an open fire. This invariably effaces
[005] w, ex-mayor of Providence and a wealthy Republican _____ manufacturer; Thomas Davis, an uncompromising Garris
[006] the hall to the kitchen. She was intimidated by the _____ . He found the pilot light and turned on one of the b
[007] were away in school, and nothing was burning on the _____ , and Lucretia was coming for dinner and bringing thr
[008] red into the copper boiler that he had placed on the _____ . He brought his Winchester in from the front of the
[009] fice was of logs, four rooms, each heated by an iron _____ . The building was dwarfed by the scene outside. Ther
[010] aggie go from the washing machine to the baby to the _____ and back again. "I have plenty of odd moments w
[011] e working at it, and keep an eye on the baby and the _____ at the same time. And I can go back to my contests a
[012] basket there, and the rest of them undressed by the _____ and ran groaning and shivering to the upper polar re
10. WORDS
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[001] look at it often. It had a tiny envelope tied to its _____ . An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that i
[002] , since only two long bones are included in Hand and _____ as a region. Third, the upper portion deals with onl
[003] laced the tray on the table and with a flick of dark _____ drew off the cloth. She smiled, and the teeth gleame
[004] fist on the pillow. He had long black hairs on his _____ . They curled around the cuff of his nightshirt. "
[005] raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her _____ . "I saw your fire", she said, speaking slowly, ma
[006] d picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her _____ and smiling at him. "Carwood didn't tell you th
[007] swung the quirt again, and this time he caught her _____ and pulled her out of the saddle. She came down a
[008] toward the handle of the quirt, and he grabbed her _____ . "Oh, no", he said, and he was without humor now. "I
[009] kicked legs, and groping hands that circled Matsuo's _____ . Matsuo wrenched free and burned the hands into retr
[010] as waiting. He looked at the luminous dial of his _____ watch. It was five minutes after four. On some dista
[011] of an answering machine round his neck. His body had _____ and head injuries. Candles had been lit around the r
[012] cost phones will serve as a back-up to your personal, _____ - implanted phone. This will be the fourth generation