136c
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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.
Which
word/phrase fits all the gaps in each set? (Corpus=corpus_awl.txt )
afford
breakfast
confidence
grass
instantly
path
satisfactory
suspect
track
uncle
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2. WORDS
afford
breakfast
confidence
grass
instantly
path
satisfactory
suspect
track
uncle
[001] twist lay in using Bing Crosby's voice on the sound _____ while leading man Eddie Bracken mouthed the words. I
[002] s correspondent, and Pike would be so busy trying to _____ down the illusive character assassin that he would f
[003] submarines would be needed- to locate, identify and _____ approaching vessels. Land-based radar would help wit
[004] oblems. Between meetings he helps the president keep _____ of delegated matters. Since these duties fit neatly
[005] Their Ways by O. E. Plath. If we manage to keep _____ of a Bombus queen after she has left her feeding pla
[006] , when a friendly discussion would suddenly jump the _____ into the most irrelevant and illogical comparisons.
[007] orded against distance by a repeat run over the same _____ previously cut. A number of adjustment features are
[008] e while running over the previously stripped coating _____ under various external loadings. A straight line rel
[009] l radiography in medical or industrial applications, _____ recording of high energy particles, etc. High-gai
[010] mer he had tried to repair some of his losses at the _____ , and the bare trees reminded him that his pari-mutue
[011] , anyhow, Dogtown Common is so much off the beaten _____ nowadays that only Sunday picnickers still stray up
[012] eserted. There had been no sign of a rifleman and no _____ or trace to show that anyone had been near. Lew
3. WORDS
afford
breakfast
confidence
grass
instantly
path
satisfactory
suspect
track
uncle
[001] ellectual honesty and capacity to recognize the true _____ of her own best interests. To us and to every n
[002] riage relationship, the Court today continues in the _____ charted by the recent decision in Wyatt v. United St
[003] ns or some other international body? For, if so, the _____ leads through a complex process of parliamentary d
[004] ot cycle, ground conductivity along the transmission _____ , atmospheric and manmade noise, and others. With the
[005] and he can also have a great deal to say as to what _____ it will take. Success will require tact, sensitivity
[006] e tissue septa as in type /1,, follows a more direct _____ to the hilum and does not maintain this close relati
[007] where the pulmonary vein follows a more independent _____ to the hilum as is the case throughout the lung in
[008] d and entered, for a moment, a certain revolutionary _____ in which no one had preceded him. It was as though,
[009] on natural speech inflections. In this he followed a _____ that led back to the very source of opera; such comp
[010] pastor like an avenging angel lest he stray from the _____ and not know all the truth and gossip of which she w
[011] red him, skirting the parked cars and walking up the _____ to the Skopas house. When McFeeley was halfway to th
[012] "I do not care if your beliefs take you along a _____ of religion or a
4. WORDS
afford
breakfast
confidence
grass
instantly
path
satisfactory
suspect
track
uncle
[001] ithin the fixed frame of these aspirations, they can _____ to place a high value on the expressive and people-o
[002] minated the world and as long as they did they could _____ the luxury of fighting each other. That time is now
[003] luence the United States and the whole world can ill _____ to lose. #REMARKS OF HON. MELVIN PRICE OF ILLINOIS#
[004] usual family dwellings. In general, such apartments _____ more protection than smaller buildings because their
[005] ormed to give the program continuing guidance and to _____ a focal point for public understanding. Steps sho
[006] e assignment of a number of stations large enough to _____ optimum radio service to the Nation. An example of t
[007] be taken into account, and some stations required to _____ protection to other stations during these hours. #
[008] leaders prefer to live with their illusions, we can _____ to wait, for in time their comparative lack of progr
[009] dd lots is most likely a small trader, one who can't _____ to trade round lots. Or, to use the cynical phraseol
[010] market movement, for this rank of traders can least _____ to lose, virtually anything the odd-lot traders do,
[011] oday tomorrow will be dying". But then his son could _____ it. Lawrence was waiting for Bill Boxell. The Vic
[012] seemed a good reason, to begin with: no couple could _____ to have children. "How you going to work with a c
5. WORDS
afford
breakfast
confidence
grass
instantly
path
satisfactory
suspect
track
uncle
[001] evie was shouting triumphantly. A train hooted. _____ , he chilled. They were pursuing him. He was frighten
[002] t again. "Who was that, young feller"? the doctor _____ asked. "That was the fille de chambre, the one
[003] turned his head to the source of the disturbance and _____ back to the window and his rifle sight, dismissing
[004] ling station and the public telephone booth and knew _____ how he had been summoned. The police car had pu
[005] made the mistake of answering in an offhand way, and _____ realized that his skepticism must have showed in his
[006] calmly. Any other reaction would have been reported _____ . "I meant that you have a nice singing voice ...
[007] wrong thing to say. By failing to do as he was told _____ - to take out a permit or return the gun to his car-
[008] I'm shot"! Powell gasped. And he collapsed and died _____ . Ross had no intention of searching for the assas
[009] her into his antique store. That she impressed me _____ was obvious; I was aware that when our eyes met we b
[010] in one searing moment that gave them to one another _____ . The Command offices were in the border country,
[011] k with his deputy to the ranch he would be shot down _____ . Leisurely he climbed on to the wagon next to Nea
[012] umbled to the davenport and sank down on it, and was _____ asleep. Nadine strode over to him, and her pointed n
6. WORDS
afford
breakfast
confidence
grass
instantly
path
satisfactory
suspect
track
uncle
[001] ined from the magnetically contaminated **f would be _____ . Plane suggested another preparation of **f which
[002] isting theories are insufficiently general. If, as I _____ , the problem is largely of the second sort, then dev
[003] more pessimistic vein about the economic outlook, I _____ that the reservoir of demand for consumer goods and
[004] is fitness is one of the main facts of ethics, and I _____ they are right. But that is not exactly my point. My
[005] that a tale is twice told, its final author must be _____ , although plagiarism in an oral tradition is less a
[006] sted. "Your name will never appear. No one will even _____ that it is your work". To that Rousseau could agr
[007] to give it to her in little bills so's nobody would _____ - maybe couldn't get it until Monday account of that,
[008] t into trouble. She wanted the police to notice him, _____ him. She was going to keep on scheming, poking, prod
[009] Mahzeer, of course, would be desolate. How was he to _____ that an assassin had been lurking somewhere across t
[010] "But it's just that- well, you know. The cops didn't _____ a thing, and I thought it was a coincidence. After
[011] Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely _____ , and he was brought in for questioning immediately.
[012] at Barco, apprehended for mere larceny, now began to _____ that one or another of his murders had been uncovere
7. WORDS
afford
breakfast
confidence
grass
instantly
path
satisfactory
suspect
track
uncle
[001] ther before my Lorde Anderson in the countrey or his _____ ffortescue in the exchequer with whom he colde more
[002] ast testament before we left Paterson. I heard them! _____ and Aunt Howe were the witnesses". "Will he die"?
[003] did? That's a good one. I thought I knew. Why don't _____ Sam mind his own fucken business? I'll bet both toge
[004] ended, at what involvement existed for Juanita. _____ Randolph and Joel had replanted the bottom lands wit
[005] own loss. She loved him and missed his company. _____ Randolph had been riding out every evening on some s
[006] "You're gonna get caught", she heard Joel say to _____ Randolph by the pump one morning. "Not this old f
[007] he pump one morning. "Not this old fox", chuckled _____ Randolph. "Everybody knows I'm just a harmless, deaf
[008] e guerrillas, the Moccasin Rangers". "Hush", said _____ Randolph, smiling, "or I'll give you another black e
[009] hill trails through the nights till dawn. Stranger, _____ Randolph began riding home nights with a jug strappe
[010] sk. No one went much to the crossroads now except _____ Randolph. They stayed in their own world on the bluf
[011] ts too", he crowed. After he had gone, Kate asked _____ Randolph proudly, "Would you take their oath"?
[012] trying to be calm. It would be better for Joel and _____ Randolph and Mrs. Tussle not to see them. Kate we
8. WORDS
afford
breakfast
confidence
grass
instantly
path
satisfactory
suspect
track
uncle
[001] hich hang over them, and appear truly romantick. The _____ and fields of rice are perfectly green, and herds of
[002] cting, in her chosen abode, a small "floor" of dried _____ or some woolly material. On this, she builds an "egg
[003] eneralizations or recurrent parts (fish, bird, tree, _____ , horn, tail, bark, root). The groups are therefore r
[004] into the valley again. There was no cover here, only _____ sighing against pant-legs. And with each sigh, like
[005] each sigh, like a whip in the hand of an expert, the _____ stripped something from Warren. The gentle whir of e
[006] t quietly disappeared down the line. Lying in the _____ behind the brush clump, Warren looked about. The oth
[007] ut. The others likewise had hidden themselves in the _____ and the brush. Over his shoulder he could see Prevot
[008] unted, turned off the horse, and plunged through the _____ . He felt curiously sleepy, the world seemed far a
[009] noted the immaculate lawn and gardens: each blade of _____ cropped, bright and firm; each shrub glazed with goo
[010] y pattern of the trees threw a dappled shadow on the _____ , an effect which he found pleasant. She concluded
[011] ins our property. It bulks under a veil of thin, new _____ , like some embarrassing fact of physicalness, and I
[012] lawn the improbably bright-green shade of florist's _____ . He figured his best bet was a call on the sherif
9. WORDS
afford
breakfast
confidence
grass
instantly
path
satisfactory
suspect
track
uncle
[001] o the less fortunate members that will inspire hope, _____ , and progress. A rich nation can for a time, without
[002] your understanding of what I am saying. I have full _____ in you. Now, let's go". I marched up to the wai
[003] e Revolution, an experience which gave Morgan little _____ in militia in general, as he watched other instances
[004] e on the alert. Obviously the commander-in-chief had _____ that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence to
[005] own interests as well as those of the king, Edward's _____ in them was so absolute that they were made the ackn
[006] embers on the administration of the measure- and the _____ was kept so well that only one newspaper learned wha
[007] the past produced; and it is to be noted also that _____ should grow from remembering that great men often ap
[008] plan helps him to attract major gifts. It inspires _____ in his institution's determination to establish goal
[009] ationship-building stage the worker must communicate _____ in the client's ability to deal with the problem. In
[010] lls we already possess, and to use them with greater _____ , precision, and professional pride. Though there
[011] d been made about the difference in security or self- _____ between those subjects who shifted their Kohnstamm r
[012] to produce a government in which Moscow had complete _____ , and all pressure from the West for free voting by a
10. WORDS
afford
breakfast
confidence
grass
instantly
path
satisfactory
suspect
track
uncle
[001] the right nor to the left. At dinner, lunch, or _____ , the President would call out, "Supper"!- he called
[002] earns were there, the President would say grace at _____ . If the Stearns were not there, grace would be omitt
[003] not there, grace would be omitted. Speaking of _____ , the President inaugurated a new custom- that of con
[004] ted a new custom- that of conducting business at the _____ table. The word was that this too was part of an eco
[005] official meals. So the President would make a hearty _____ official by inviting Government officials to attend.
[006] d. He caused a lot of talk when he also chose the _____ hour to have the barber come in and trim his hair wh
[007] hrough camp crowing like a cock to wake his men. His _____ was tea; his dinner fell anywhere from nine to noon;
[008] them". S.K. was visiting C.C.B. and, not waiting for _____ , he was off to the University Club, where he spent h
[009] ens of international bodies, a news item read at the _____ table, a question to the President or the Secretary
[010] ion, and during the year it offers speakers, movies, _____ rides, and trips to broaden their knowledge of the s
[011] t the year there are social events, such as picnics, _____ hikes, canoe trips, banquets, and indoor parties.
[012] e and went down in his bathrobe and slippers to have _____ either alone or with Rachel. Virginia treated him wi