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 )
bucket
cart
cliff
conquered
disgust
hello
rivalry
rod
umbrella
waist
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2. WORDS
bucket
cart
cliff
conquered
disgust
hello
rivalry
rod
umbrella
waist
[001] his first Sunday, witnessed this with something like _____ . He had preached a short sermon, trying to talk man-to
[002] his first Sunday, witnessed this with something like _____ . He had preached a short sermon, trying to talk man-to
3. WORDS
bucket
cart
cliff
conquered
disgust
hello
rivalry
rod
umbrella
waist
[001] th the enemy of sin within his own soul. And God had _____ that one by His grace! So why worry about all the ot
[002] the Byzantine Emperors were crowned. After the Turks _____ the city in 1453 they converted it to a mosque, addi
[003] ach affair lasted only until that lover, too, had been _____ and reduced to passivity. Then the wife bed-hopped t
4. WORDS
bucket
cart
cliff
conquered
disgust
hello
rivalry
rod
umbrella
waist
[001] o remember. Don't pretend. You do remember. You just- " _____ ? Yes, this is she? What"? The voice had music in it.
[002] was delighted to encounter a water brother. "Hi"! "Oh. _____ , Mike. My, you look chipper". "I feel fine! Where is
[003] out to the field and over to Helva's slim metal hull. " _____ , anyone at home"? Tanner wisecracked. "Of course", r
[004] t with his back to the door was the rancher, Ed Dunn. " _____ , Ed", said Tilghman. The rancher grunted an acknowle
[005] Dancing Class parties her mother had made her attend. " _____ , Julie, how are you"? ... And then off he went so ca
[006] , Jack Hamrick awaited William at the officers' club. " _____ , boss", he said, and grinned. "I suppose I can never
[007] dinner. He was passing through town and phoned to say _____ . As a result, he was persuaded out to dinner. As a m
[008] em is no fun". He invited Mr. Case to stop by to say _____ if he ever visited the academy and then added that h
[009] nstant stream of visitors, some stopping only to say _____ , others getting into serious conversations, such as
[010] ure ground with him to ask him, "What is that, Bill- _____ or farewell"?, the patient replied, "Both, Dearie- t
[011] o remember. Don't pretend. You do remember. You just- " _____ ? Yes, this is she? What"? The voice had music in it.
[012] was delighted to encounter a water brother. "Hi"! "Oh. _____ , Mike. My, you look chipper". "I feel fine! Where is
5. WORDS
bucket
cart
cliff
conquered
disgust
hello
rivalry
rod
umbrella
waist
[001] ng of Rose Mallory. His hands snatched at an imaginary _____ , swooping down hard to grab it and coming away with
[002] of features. Morgan filled the dipper from the water _____ on the shelf, went back into the front room, lifted th
[003] creeched. "There goes our grub an' ammunition"! "Get a _____ line going"! Calhoun shouted. "Hurry! Hurry"! The gu
[004] id sheets that sluiced down like water slopping from a _____ . Walls of water rushed down the slopes and filled th
[005] ion he bestowed on a salesman who needed to have the _____ taken off his thick head. What a production to make of
[006] l cellar temperature, may be adequately chilled in a _____ of ice and water or the freezing compartment of a re
[007] in a winter climate, there is nothing better than a _____ of water and snow. Though by no means an ideal procedu
[008] on of metropolitan beaches by sewage. He exposed the _____ -shop racket with the able assistance of two excellen
[009] ng of Rose Mallory. His hands snatched at an imaginary _____ , swooping down hard to grab it and coming away with
[010] of features. Morgan filled the dipper from the water _____ on the shelf, went back into the front room, lifted th
[011] creeched. "There goes our grub an' ammunition"! "Get a _____ line going"! Calhoun shouted. "Hurry! Hurry"! The gu
[012] id sheets that sluiced down like water slopping from a _____ . Walls of water rushed down the slopes and filled th
6. WORDS
bucket
cart
cliff
conquered
disgust
hello
rivalry
rod
umbrella
waist
[001] it stuck together in thatches so that it looked like _____ ribs clinging to his pink skull. The lieutenant eyed
[002] t remember, Sergeant, that we must all carry our own _____ . A district station can't run smoothly, unless"- He
[003] le. Pretty soon a woman came along carrying a folded _____ as a walking stick. She saw me and sat down beside me,
[004] ree feet away. Suddenly I understood why she had the _____ . It gave her poise and posture. Without it she would
[005] n the field, and frequently resort to a large garden _____ to protect my eyes from undue strain. In my studio I
[006] helters in which Americans are camping now. There were _____ tents, wall tents, cottage tents, station wagon tent
[007] sits motionless, while still another is twirling an _____ . A man and a girl happen to meet; they look straight
[008] a rainstorm, unwilling to hear of a taxi or even an _____ , although he was at the time ninety years old. There
[009] it stuck together in thatches so that it looked like _____ ribs clinging to his pink skull. The lieutenant eyed
[010] t remember, Sergeant, that we must all carry our own _____ . A district station can't run smoothly, unless"- He
[011] le. Pretty soon a woman came along carrying a folded _____ as a walking stick. She saw me and sat down beside me,
[012] ree feet away. Suddenly I understood why she had the _____ . It gave her poise and posture. Without it she would
7. WORDS
bucket
cart
cliff
conquered
disgust
hello
rivalry
rod
umbrella
waist
[001] same low order of virulence as the twentieth-century _____ between Arizona and California over water supplies. Be
[002] had won five of the 13 tournaments to date. #INSTANT _____ # On Thursday, the first day of the Masters, the cont
[003] @ #MATTER OF SURVIVAL# @ THOSE watching the growing _____ between craft unions and industrial unions may recog
[004] ional disputes that result from the craft-industrial _____ do not win friends for labor. Engaged as it is in a
[005] e best condition of it would be an open conflict and _____ of the diverse systems .... The world might ring with
[006] patient does not say, "I hate my father", or "Sibling _____ is what bugs me". What he does do is give himself aw
[007] same low order of virulence as the twentieth-century _____ between Arizona and California over water supplies. Be
8. WORDS
bucket
cart
cliff
conquered
disgust
hello
rivalry
rod
umbrella
waist
[001] the fervor and abandon of a real celebration. "Golly", _____ exclaimed to Harmony as he dutifully stood by her si
[002] . "Not that it matters to me, being this far along". _____ gave her a warm pat on the shoulder before he replied.
[003] ong with Gran while you go out and join in the games". _____ shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in
[004] e, 'cept maybe Dan, who can outgrip me, Harmony". With _____ on his way and Matilda visiting with Mrs. Jackson wh
[005] ey'd be just as right as they now were for her and for _____ . But she couldn't, not yet. Not with the memory of h
[006] ng with those made by the earlier trains. Soon she saw _____ and Hez moving over to join them. No sooner were the
[007] Harrow exclaimed, watching their rippling muscles as _____ and Dan swung her up into the load. "A body would swea
[008] ody would swear I floated right up here on a cloud"! _____ and Dan released their holds on the arms of her hick
[009] icklebrush ye're a-raising"? "Quit ragging him, Gran", _____ protested. "I ain't ragging him"! Gran peered again
[010] hn-Henry up thar". "Wonder what made them hurry so", _____ drawled, giving Dan a sly wink. Dan grinned, and cha
[011] u our turn when it comes up and fall in behind you and _____ 's outfit". "Ain't no sense you eating our dust",
[012] 's outfit". "Ain't no sense you eating our dust", _____ protested. "Sally and her ma want to trade off on ac
9. WORDS
bucket
cart
cliff
conquered
disgust
hello
rivalry
rod
umbrella
waist
[001] called "Order". Each wore the monkish scourge at his _____ but this, it seems, was not employed for self-flagel
[002] all day and keep it, soaking wet, dangling from her _____ , and when she gardened she would eat dinner with dirt
[003] on his mind, Winston went and put his arm around her _____ . "We've got plenty of time to think about that. All th
[004] oat too broad at the shoulders and too narrow at the _____ . There was a slight bulge under the left armpit- a s
[005] finger, only louder, and Pops fell forward from the _____ and then over sidewise. Out cold, if not dead; and he'
[006] eside his own. Or was that after the torso and legs, _____ to toe-tips, of the little girl which had grown from
[007] on. The girl was not more than 16. She was nude to the _____ and her tumbled abundance of black hair did not conc
[008] clash into its slot. The boy lifted the girl by the _____ and set her on the lip of the floor. She pulled her
[009] or the swanlike neck, the full, high breasts, the slim _____ , and the long legs were less than poetic, however. Z
[010] rls in the New York casbah, with dark eyes and dark, _____ -length hair, the face of an adolescent patrician and a
[011] ing the upper body by tying a rope about the patient's _____ . For sprains and swellings, one pint of cider vinega
[012] ws. Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The _____ -High Culture, wrote: "... most of what was different
10. WORDS
bucket
cart
cliff
conquered
disgust
hello
rivalry
rod
umbrella
waist
[001] devotees will have good reason to do their customary _____ wheels over a new and complete stereo version of the
[002] ness and line-driven for a few days, and then put to _____ and broken in very nicely, knowing nothing but trot. H
[003] d on the trot until December 29, hitched to a breaking _____ once around the half-mile track and hoppled again. T
[004] off, the Fort Garry free traders engaged three men to _____ goods to them from the Mississippi country. Others c
[005] wagon had gone, and an interval passed, a huckster's _____ might turn the corner. The horse walked, the reins wer