MULTI_CONC
Quiz
DIRECTIONS: Below, you will see 10 items.
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=brown_strip.txt )
ache
apologize
applause
comb
drown
knot
nephew
purple
stripe
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"PINTS " not found in Corpus brown_strip.txt
2. WORDS
ache
apologize
applause
comb
drown
knot
nephew
purple
stripe
[001] r the evil might still be going on. My head began to _____ , and the fumes of the tractor began to bother my eyes,
[002] d one of the paths with a coed beside him becomes an _____ and a pain. He can smell again the perfume she wore
[003] uld barely touch a meaning- enough to make his being _____ with the desire for the fullness he sensed there. Br
[004] d and he rubbed his unshaved chin and felt again the _____ in his kidneys caused by his saddle odyssey from Bos
[005] r the evil might still be going on. My head began to _____ , and the fumes of the tractor began to bother my eyes,
3. WORDS
ache
apologize
applause
comb
drown
knot
nephew
purple
stripe
[001] me up, as he would smile on any other day. He was my _____ , my brother's son, handsome and warm and newly-scrub
[002] Adler and Joseph Jastrow. Adler, Judge Sulzberger's _____ , came to study Assyriology. A smart, shrewd and ambi
[003] int at it do you think it will matter that you are his _____ - and not even a blood
[004] - and not even a blood _____ "? "I don't want to be thrown out and I don't think I w
[005] husband- smack!- and you fall for a pass by his own _____ ! You should- smack!- be ashamed of yourself. He had
[006] cial interest. Carla translated. The old woman had a _____ from North Italy, a poor boy from a lumber mill who
[007] the same, the old woman said, she would write to her _____ in his boxcar and tell him she had met a nice man from
[008] ntry. And Sam thanked her, and hoped he might meet her _____ back home, and asked her if she had any further news
[009] te them and followed timidly. Yellow Wolf was there, _____ of the young chief by an older brother long dead, in w
[010] me up, as he would smile on any other day. He was my _____ , my brother's son, handsome and warm and newly-scrub
4. WORDS
ache
apologize
applause
comb
drown
knot
nephew
purple
stripe
[001] hung up, she saw through the hall's open window the _____ -black flying of the cowbirds' wings, and heard their g
[002] s, many still tight in the bud, ranged in color from _____ through fuchsia and rose to the palest pink, along w
[003] tually without color contain always a hint of grape or _____ or blue- he wanted to draw the broad patina of hair
[004] hen Missouri's Clarence Cannon got the word, he turned _____ . "Unconscionable"! he shouted, and rushed off to the
[005] olors are used, she is just as likely to color trees _____ , hair green, etc. The other children in the class use
[006] keyed compared with the fiery stabs of crimson, gold, _____ , bronze, blue and vermilion that flame up in North A
[007] es and Pee Wee Hunt. Since 1892 ears of red, yellow, _____ and white corn have annually been nailed to 11 big p
[008] CK DISSOLVING FAST ACTING PLEASANT TASTING GREEN AND _____ PILLS._ In a raucous take-off on radio commercials, Si
[009] they had been buried in our graveyard in front of the _____ flags. And the cast shell of a locust, straw-colored
[010] ove is like a red, red rose" and Hopkins' "The thunder- _____ sea-beach, plumed
[011] sea-beach, plumed _____ of thunder" although clearly intelligible in content,
[012] oth of them for the DSM and the Detroit fellow for the _____ Heart, too, for a combat-inflicted wound. So you see
5. WORDS
ache
apologize
applause
comb
drown
knot
nephew
purple
stripe
[001] smoking a cigarette. Blackman said that he wanted to _____ for not having prevented Lewis from making that horrib
6. WORDS
ache
apologize
applause
comb
drown
knot
nephew
purple
stripe
[001] dle" or "brockle". A "lineback" was an animal with a _____ of different color from the rest of its body runnin' d
[002] est of its body runnin' down its back, while a "lobo _____ " was the white, yeller, or brown
[003] " was the white, yeller, or brown _____ runnin' down the back, from neck to tail, a characte
[004] not arrived at by any theoreticians of the Karl Marx _____ but by men of government- lawyers, most of them- and
7. WORDS
ache
apologize
applause
comb
drown
knot
nephew
purple
stripe
[001] olen string about the patient's neck and tying in it a _____ for each year of his life. Or the victim could chew
[002] than existing equipment; it incorporates an automatic _____ -tying device on each spindle, and it will
[003] -tying device on each spindle, and it will _____ a break in the yarn in 10 seconds as well as tie in
[004] was its Amen corner and the weekly religious orgy. A _____ of old worshippers, chiefly women, listened weekly t
[005] n gown; then, to better purpose, he took hold of the _____ and with dextrous fingers, untied it. The bodice ben
[006] oke bewilderedly to the dark night flecked with pine- _____ torches. -Goddamn you! What do you do to them? Intelli
[007] needle touch his arm. B'dikkat had turned to the next _____ of people when the super-condamine hit Mercer. He tr
[008] urf, shaking his head. Clayton looped the reins in a _____ over the veranda post and patted the warm flesh of h
[009] the bottom of the eyelets but there was still a bow _____ at the top. The slightest twitch would have parted t
[010] muring together until they stood buzzing in an angry _____ , their threats mingling, rising, nagging at each oth
8. WORDS
ache
apologize
applause
comb
drown
knot
nephew
purple
stripe
[001] ". The audience last night did not respond with either _____ or boos to mention of Hughes' remark. Dumont spoke o
[002] owd staged its own mad scene in salvos of cheers and _____ and finally a standing ovation as Miss Sutherland took
[003] trance in Scene 2, Act 1, brought some disconcerting _____ even before she had sung a note. Thereafter the audi
[004] e she had sung a note. Thereafter the audience waxed _____ -happy, but discriminating operagoers reserved judgme
[005] and the audience was equally so with its cheers and _____ and flowers. All went home happy except the Newport
[006] in, the orchestra's administrative director, brought _____ from the 2,800 persons who filled the hall. They sho
[007] partment in anger. In many sections he may even reap _____ from press and public for giving it a good lesson. A
[008] d in 1863 in the Boston Music Hall amidst thundering _____ : "Pay ransom to the owner and fill the bag to the brim
[009] cation to reality and are sanctimonious to boot, the _____ is faint even in areas of the world where we should
[010] d in what is said, whether he responds with anger or _____ . But simple involvement is not enough; self-discovery
[011] y is any attitude more fitting than any other? Would _____ , for example, be fitting if, apart from the
[012] , for example, be fitting if, apart from the _____ , there were nothing good to applaud? Would condemnat
9. WORDS
ache
apologize
applause
comb
drown
knot
nephew
purple
stripe
[001] der in Chief's only desk was his knees (and his only _____ , his fingers). An entire theater had been set up for
[002] ch might otherwise have escaped him: the fine color in _____ and wattles, the length and quality of neck and sadd
[003] the bend of her back as she gathered up her things- a _____ , a bottle of aspirin- to take upstairs and pack. She
[004] hair was heavily pomaded, and as Killpath raked the _____ through it, it stuck together in thatches so that it
[005] wl and then glanced back at his own face, moving the _____ methodically around his head. Leave me alone, Gun th
[006] ver every square inch of the place with a fine-tooth _____ . The hotel people will have scoured and vacuumed it. T