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 )
diamonds
hollow
pet
pig
selfish
silk
sore
stiffened
tailor
upset
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2. WORDS
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[001] ued: "I fixed his dog the other day and I guess he's _____ , so I expected him to come barging in". Mr. Kahler w
[002] d sleep, sleep, and never think of roads and horses' _____ haunches, of colonial wars. Strange how everyth
[003] as destroyed by fire. We are thirsty and hungry; our _____ and burned hands and arms need attention". The
[004] thread. Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, _____ because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, j
[005] n't". "Is". "Isn't". "Is". She was _____ as a boil. "Ever hear of squatter's rights"? "S
[006] sed in such terms as feeling stiff, tired, restless, _____ , and in pain. Chair users can rather easily describ
[007] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 extremely 1. I have _____ muscles. 2. I have heavy legs. 3. I feel uneven pres
[008] mmonds, who left the game after again aggravating his _____ left heel. A sellout crowd of 48,068 - which pushed t
[009] e is a sulphur spring there, which will cure all our _____ throats." "Captain!" cried Pencroft. "What a pity th
[010] y with Nieman for a while", Hemus said. "Bill White ( _____ ankles) should be ready. With a lefthander going for
[011] e nations to act in the spirit of his dedication the _____ issues that plague the world can yet be resolved wit
[012] enty more left and then they would lean to me like a _____ eyd kitten to a basin of milk". Some of the lette
3. WORDS
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hollow
pet
pig
selfish
silk
sore
stiffened
tailor
upset
[001] meaux, the gaming-card manufacturer said, his little _____ eyes glaring. "We have taught him a lesson". Th
[002] t would jump and run and not come when you say, 'Hoo- _____ '. Had to put my foot on it to hole it down while I c
[003] ttled by fifteen thousand citizens and laid out into _____ -infested streets, mostly around the Battery, going b
[004] ster- and I thought, Well you don't look much like a _____ -drunk bully now. I couldn't be sure he was still asl
[005] ut is his whisky and that dry crack in his face. Get _____ -drunk- that's what he wants. He don't care about not
[006] as, caked with dirt and sweat and blood, filthy as a _____ and naked as an Indian, kissing the finest, the swee
[007] close. Wild boar watched their progress with little _____ eyes, and grunted derision when they didn't consider
[008] "! Feathertop interrupted, standing up, brushing the _____ offal from his dirty pants. "None of that. We run a
[009] repeated, motioning to the piled hay bags, over the _____ leavings. "I'm just a poor ex-jazz man, name of- uh-
[010] each. Son. While I'm gone you get brown and fat as a _____ , hear? Look, I can put two fingers between the cords
[011] opposition party stood below the podium and donned a _____ mask. He then unfurled a series of placards with cut
[012] wn, so that opposition members don't have to put on _____ masks in order to be heard. The question is whether
4. WORDS
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hollow
pet
pig
selfish
silk
sore
stiffened
tailor
upset
[001] metimes is a crucial problem. The director helped _____ -make a check list of the district manager's errors b
[002] "the stupendous power of money" from the sycophantic _____ , Mr. Trabb, whose brutality to his boy helper exactl
[003] iety of shapes, dimensions, and contours that can be _____ -made to customer requirements has made the technique
[004] the liquor, the servants- even Letch's bills at his _____ and the Los Angeles Athletic Club. Never once did he
[005] trouble to memorize the very small part which I had " _____ -made" to his specifications, a role eventually cut d
[006] , a carpenter in the dockyards in Brooklyn, assistant _____ in the vessels of the state, gardener, cultivator, du
[007] ge and small, thick and thin materials make plastics _____ -made for the industry. _4._ Plastics signs wo
[008] metimes is a crucial problem. The director helped _____ -make a check list of the district manager's errors b
[009] "the stupendous power of money" from the sycophantic _____ , Mr. Trabb, whose brutality to his boy helper exactl
[010] iety of shapes, dimensions, and contours that can be _____ -made to customer requirements has made the technique
[011] the liquor, the servants- even Letch's bills at his _____ and the Los Angeles Athletic Club. Never once did he
[012] trouble to memorize the very small part which I had " _____ -made" to his specifications, a role eventually cut d
5. WORDS
diamonds
hollow
pet
pig
selfish
silk
sore
stiffened
tailor
upset
[001] r for protection: an enormous matriarch in a quilted _____ wrapper, rising from the breakfast table; a gross bo
[002] ketched, sitting in their flowing gowns of linen and _____ , young girls not yet twenty, some about to be marrie
[003] reat staircase, dressed in her best lace-drawn black _____ , her jeweled shoe buckles held forward. "Well, I'
[004] had heard her shaking out the skirt of her new pink _____ hostess gown. "How do you like it"? she had ask
[005] cket, lighter gray slacks, pink flannel shirt, black _____ necktie. His eyes were clear. He was freshly shaved,
[006] he looked dapper in a lightweight summer suit, brown _____ tie and green-tinted soft collar. He wore perforated
[007] aw emergent in windshield flash: red lips, streaming _____ of blonde hair and- ah, trembling confusion of hope,
[008] couple of Siamese cats. Her uniform was of rich, raw _____ , in a shade which matched her hair, skin, housepaint,
[009] the Smoky Mountains and contemplates a design for a _____ scarf. In an increasingly techno-wired world, arts an
[010] t from Decatur with a 'serious avocation' of painting _____ scarves. Surface design was her seventh summer class
[011] erials can now be created, much like nylon replacing _____ in stockings, from atmospheric materials at a much l
[012] ould see that they were blue, all right, but made of _____ . When I investigated further I found that these worke
6. WORDS
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pig
selfish
silk
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stiffened
tailor
upset
[001] y. "Stick to the preaching of the Gospel"! John _____ in anger. "That is the answer the ungodly will alway
[002] ntensify her inner turmoil. When the cloth dried and _____ , he saw what adjustments had to be made. "So th
[003] mell. There was somebody else in the apartment. I _____ . Honest I could feel the hair stand up on the back o
[004] Rev looked up and saw her. Lolotte looked up and _____ . George didn't look up at all. There was no way to k
[005] ordination as well as dereliction of duty". Gun _____ , his hands balling into fists at his sides. He clamp
[006] ckle we're going to talk about". "Arbuckle"? Jess _____ . "I don't know nothin' about him". "No? I suppo
[007] lit Barco's eyes. His manhood had been attacked. He _____ and rose to his feet. He'd show them! "Is that so
[008] ineer, Neb and Pencroft examined the bodies, already _____ by the cold. They bore no apparent trace of any woun
[009] aches of statesmen around the globe. The Pathet Lao, _____ by Communist Veterans from neighboring North Viet Na
[010] y. "Stick to the preaching of the Gospel"! John _____ in anger. "That is the answer the ungodly will alway
[011] ntensify her inner turmoil. When the cloth dried and _____ , he saw what adjustments had to be made. "So th
[012] mell. There was somebody else in the apartment. I _____ . Honest I could feel the hair stand up on the back o
7. WORDS
diamonds
hollow
pet
pig
selfish
silk
sore
stiffened
tailor
upset
[001] and sharp and perfect, in orange and green and brown _____ the size of a baby's fist down its back, and the
[002] the size of a baby's fist down its back, and the _____ were set one within the other and interlaced with gl
[003] We at Renaissance received a certificate to appraise _____ in 1977. We have been in the jewelry business for tw
[004] of an automated teller machine, a supply of cash and _____ , and electronic equipment in what were either brazen
[005] hotographs of her 18-carat sapphire surrounded by 14 _____ that adorned her engagement ring. She cultivated her
[006] ompany is using this "selective buoyancy" to pick out _____ from beach sand. Liquid magnetism is an answer just
[007] particles with brilliant highlights that sparkle like _____ in all the hues of the rainbow. When applied to the s
[008] hire. Now aged seven, this Irish-bred son of King of _____ was ridden by Carl Edwards to become overall winner
[009] o say, captain," interrupted Pencroft, "that we burn _____ in our stoves in the shape of coal?" "No, my friend,"
[010] you are now acquainted. That coffer yonder contains _____ of the value of many millions, most of them mementoes
[011] which houses such things as coffee cups covered with _____ , jewelled swords, rifles glittering with
[012] , jewelled swords, rifles glittering with _____ and huge divan-like thrones as large as small beds,
8. WORDS
diamonds
hollow
pet
pig
selfish
silk
sore
stiffened
tailor
upset
[001] ped verbal expression, seeming at first to be a mere _____ convention, reveals itself over the months of therap
[002] a distinct and audible cluck ruffled the air in the _____ of the stair-well. Eyes swerved in the patronne's he
[003] Nothing broken that can't be mended". The words were _____ . Thornburg knew, better than any of them, that a pub
[004] desire. He worked his tongue round and round in the _____ of his cheek and his voice came out of his throat, d
[005] air expelled from the man's collapsing cheek made a _____ pop in the air like cupped hands clapping together.
[006] , dodging her own shadows until she came to a little _____ in the rocky ground with a big stone in the center b
[007] n pills on the bureau and spent six months in space: _____ eyes,
[008] eyes, _____ cheeks,
[009] cheeks, _____ stomach. Breakfast, he thought. A shot of orange jui
[010] doctor's prescription for lots of sun seemed like a _____ mockery. In these damp circumstances, he was an odds
[011] e and T-shirt. When he invokes such places as Bobcat _____ and Blizzard, Ky., you tend to believe him. Having wr
[012] suggestion in the play that Henry's defiance might be _____ . In this drama, words are deeds, and right from the
9. WORDS
diamonds
hollow
pet
pig
selfish
silk
sore
stiffened
tailor
upset
[001] e was enjoying the weekly ritual of washing down his _____ grievance with bourbon slightly moistened with water
[002] lch wanted to know why. No one knew. Now Welch had a _____ theory that everyone is guilty of breaking more laws
[003] came to know, and, more important, love his mother's _____ salamander, Alicia. It is not an entirely happy book
[004] e ongoing process. Even a family that is welcoming a _____ into its home will inevitably change consumer habits
[005] your classmates. ’ΔΆ Think of an animal - it may be a _____ , a farm animal or an animal in the wild. What charact
[006] is a personal remembrance that honors the life of a _____ , friend or relative our kindred spirits. Making a memo
[007] he Japanese company Bandai, not a knockoff or a Giga _____ . With a shock, I realize I've become a virtual snob. A
[008] ll 'the post- Watergate Ethics Explosion' - one of my _____ theories is that a tongue-twisting title is a kiss o
[009] you to give some TLC to his or her 1990s electronic _____ . The pocketwatch-sized digital critters are diabolic
[010] limentary canal. Poor caregiving is punished with the _____ 's virtual death (which can be undone via the reset b
[011] child the chance for a personal relationship with a _____ without the continuing expense of actual pets, withou
[012] and white matter. The Positron Emission Tomography ( _____ ) scanner has shown us where we think (a different pa
10. WORDS
diamonds
hollow
pet
pig
selfish
silk
sore
stiffened
tailor
upset
[001] ang around while I was eating. "Don't you think it's _____ to have dinner before you go to pick her up"? "
[002] that had ever come between them was that worthless, _____ sister of his. Lucy was sick of it. "Well, at l
[003] ide to side. I thought, you little brute, you nasty, _____ , little beast, with brutality already developed with
[004] ians or those who influence politicians are corrupt, _____ and beyond popular control. ... These voters view th
[005] ld a fallout shelter in his home because it would be _____ for him to sit secure while his neighbors had no she
[006] act, wreck a marriage. When a husband is sexually _____ and heedless of his wife's desires, she is cheated o
[007] ps. He must begin, paradoxically, by becoming more _____ . He must become more expressive of his own desires
[008] the struggle in which they were involved was neither _____ nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last
[009] ang around while I was eating. "Don't you think it's _____ to have dinner before you go to pick her up"? "
[010] that had ever come between them was that worthless, _____ sister of his. Lucy was sick of it. "Well, at l
[011] ide to side. I thought, you little brute, you nasty, _____ , little beast, with brutality already developed with