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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?

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[001]   all the history about Marie Antoinette.  I felt very  _____  of myself!  I've decided that I like this job very muc
[002]    the gold ring in the shape of a fish.  She was very  _____  of it.  She wore it on her finger when she went to me
[013] otebook with me.  Sometimes, when I start feeling very  _____  of myself, I read it.  Question 1: Did Rafael kill som
[017]            The Scots, the Welsh and the Irish are very  _____  of their  national songs.  When the English play footb
[019] his time now in the company of Indians.  He was very  _____  of his Indian ways.  He loved to hear the tribe's stor
[020] I spent a lot of time  with a young woman who was very  _____  of being English.  One day, to my great surprise, she 
[021]    In England it is bad manners to be clever or  _____  of your intelligence.  Perhaps you know that two and 


	
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[005]   afternoon in a small town, Emma Carter came out of a  _____  shop with some new shoes.  They were  cheap shoes, but
[007]  Willie,' said Matty.  'You can't walk with only one  _____ .'  Suddenly Joe cried out excitedly, 'Look! Look what'
[002]  by a  pool and it was there I saw a footprint. The  _____   was just like Mark's. He must be all right if he was 
[009]  earlier that day, she had sat on her bed  with one  _____  off and one                                      
[014] He made me sit on the side of the bath and took off my  _____  and sock. She washed the cut and put a  clean cloth ar     
[013]   and her whole body was shaking. Taka took off her  _____ . Her  foot was already starting to get bigger and he c     
[004]  pulled the bedclothes off him.  Harris hit him with a  _____ , and I shouted in his ear. He woke  up.  'What,' he be     


	
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[001] students to a  party in my rooms.  We drank and played  _____   all through the night.  As well as the wine, we had 
[002] successful gambler - no better than a thief.  I played  _____  in order to win money from the other  students  and be
[007]   in my pockets they discovered the packets of special  _____   which  helped me to win every game I played.  My frie
[011] ople win  and lose thousands of dollars there, playing  _____  or other  games.  People also go there to get married 
[012] McCoist.  'Some letters from her family, money, credit  _____ .  But this is  hers,' he put his hand in his jacket 'a
[021] e a sea of flowers there.  With the flowers there were  _____   and letters: 'To our sweet Princess - Thank you for t
[023] ountries all over the world send and receive Christmas  _____ .  Before they could buy printed  Christmas  


	
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[001]   Now that he could  do nothing, he felt   _____ .  He could feel his hand in the handcuffs shaking.  
[024]   The old man looked at him.  'It is a time to be  _____ .  No man  can fight the big wind.'  'The big wind,' 
[003]  young  police officers walked beside her.  They were  _____  to touch  her  and they did not know what  to do.  
[002] care what happens to me.'  He was a big man but he was  _____  of her.  She walked  straight past him and down the 
[004]  die,' he used to say, 'because of this fear.  I'm not  _____  of  danger.  What frightens me is fear itself. 
[016] always in trouble with the police.  The others were  _____  of him, the teachers hated him and he had no real frie
[010] mily, went near the blood covered body.  Everybody was  _____  of the Red Death - everybody except  the fearless   


	
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[015]  Dear Sirs, As you requested. we have  _____  examined our  patient, Stephen Tallboy, and are quite   
[005]   took everything out of  the cases and examined it  _____ , but found nothing. As  I was putting Benson's clothes   
[004]  'This is business. To search this place   _____   we'll have to look inside  every piece of this  railw
[007]  someone had thought through the possibilities  more   _____  than I had. But by the time I boarded the plane for  
[009]  contended that  the  trustees needed nine months to  _____  review the  contributions. But confidential congressio
[002]  took on the manager of his club and worked   him over  _____  with his fists. he was given to   public carousing and
[008]  which fulfills   the requirements was developed and  _____  tested.   The transducer is a null-type instrument and   


	
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[001] and seemed to take hold of my  heart.  I felt cold and  _____ , and could not think of one happy  thought  to chase 
[002]     Nails had still not arrived.  Nutty began to feel  _____  with worry.  In  the  end, they left without him. 
[004] tried to help the  people, but thousands  were hurt or  _____ .  Doctors, medicine, food, blankets - all these things
[005]   'Now I don't feel so good.  I feel tired and I feel  _____ .  But it's  too late.  It's too late.  Goodbye.' 'Wait
[006]  the water, but we cannot wash.  A lot of the men  get  _____  because they cannot wash.  There is a doctor on the 
[010] ay, because Mother isn't here.  But one child is  very  _____  and I can't help her.  Please go." "I can go  tomorrow
[011]  child  was dead.  It was scarlet fever.  And now I'm  _____  too.""Oh  no!"  Jo said.  "I'm going to get Hannah."


	
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[001] tood with her hands in her pockets.  Helen took a deep  _____ .  She didn't like this part of the job.  'Angela, we 
[021] I could still  hear heavy breathing.  I could feel hot  _____  on my face:                                        
[004]  There were ten of them, and  then silence.  I held my  _____  and listened.  Complete  silence.  I looked across the
[011] and a far  cry from those days when I  had to stop for  _____  after a  quarter of a mile. My story shows that an
[012] Whatever it is,  the exercise should leave you out  of  _____ . For beginners, there is a small  risk of unaccustomed
[014]   The water tried to pull  him  away.  He took a deep  _____ , and blew strongly into Christine's  mouth again.
[019]  There were ten of them, and  then silence.  I held my  _____  and listened.  Complete  silence.  I looked across the 


	
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[001]  Jim's  present.  At last she found it.  It was a gold  _____  for The  Watch.  Jim loved his watch, but it had no        
[002]    for The  Watch.  Jim loved his watch, but it had no  _____ .  When  Della saw this gold                                
[010] en he  looked, he saw that it was on the end of a long  _____ . This  was held tightly by three men near the wall.      
[008]  ran out; some to immediate death. Side by side, their  _____   loose between them, Maximus and Juba ran out into the     
[011]  When Tigris was  near a tiger, the men holding the  _____  pulled it in a little.  When Maximus was near, they      
[018]  company, it also told us that the venerable fast-food  _____  probably would not continue to grow at 15 percent ann     
[020]     Is Denny's ever going to learn? The restaurant  _____  is facing another complaint of discriminatory treatmen    


	
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[017]   He  designed clothes with exciting colors: red,  _____ , and  orange.  He also brought the 1990s fashion of      
[001]  came out of the building.  They were  wearing bright  _____  coats because  of the rain.  One man  walked towards      
[003]  our  poor prisoner to get wet,  so we gave him a nice  _____  raincoat, you see.  But it was  an  expensive raincoat     
[009] lot of different  ways; 'sunny side up' means with the  _____  on top, 'over  easy' means with the                        
[013]   She was very quiet.  Little Amy had blue eyes and  _____  hair.  It was six in the evening and the girls were at     
[011] sit New England,  because the leaves on the trees turn  _____  and orange and  red and gold.  October is a good month     
[022]  thick black hair and white teeth, but his skin  was  _____  and dry.  His eyes were very pale.  He was a monster.


	
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[002]  she wrote, 'is  the  other side of the moon, the  _____  mystery, the one thing I  can  never know.' She mailed
[004] xpression on his face now changed to an expression of   _____  horror.  He whispered, 'The wrong... wrong...'  Sudden
[005] to her family.  But soon Lydia's bitterness changed to  _____  delight,  when she received an invitation from Colonel
[006]  had two weeks, well, no, no, one week,  one  week of   _____  hell and then things got a bit better. I: What  happen   
[002]   justice, can find the answer to its problem in the  _____  truth which it   holds as partially experienced. This,
[006] those of the king, Edward's confidence in them was so  _____  that they were made   the acknowledged leaders of the 
[005] first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed  _____  unity of command under   her favorite Giaour. Potemkin