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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? (Corpus=corpus_awl.txt)

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[001]  off   the tops, leaving an inch high stub with just a  _____    or two on each branch. These cut-down plants will bu     
[002] m, a pinch each of clove and nutmeg,   and a large bay  _____ . Let this boil gently for twenty   minutes, then strai     
[003] brown sugar, a sprinkling of nutmeg, and a   fresh bay  _____ , then lay on a cover of pastry, and   gild it with bea     
[004] as a sylvan pond   in the forest may be, trees offer a  _____  and root hazard   to the well-being of a pool. Yet a g     
[005] ottom while they are   still wet. Much of the dirt and  _____  stain is easily   removed when damp, but requires dyna     
[006] ader.      Years of patient application of compost and  _____    mulching has changed the structure of the soil and       
[007] steadily and hopes that   continued use of compost and  _____  mulch will allow   him to do without it in the future.     
[008] nched them   dead. The tiny bodies, dropped onto a dry  _____ , made   a pile as big as a small apple.      The odor      
[009] . Side fences were hidden beneath lilacs   and hundred- _____  roses; front fences were covered with   Virginia creep     
[010] ly normal, neurotic or merely fastidious   (do the tea- _____  readers, by the way, allow psyches   to have moral tas     
[011] to   enlarge upon my discovery of the underside of the  _____    of love, memory, displeased at being asked to yield      
[012]   _FORMAT:_      The publication form is that of loose- _____  sheets   (**f) contained in binders. The book is divid     


	
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[001] Wells Beadle, 57, who shared the 1958 Nobel   Prize in  _____  and physiology for discovering how   genes affect here     
[002] ation exposure by the  AEC's division   of biology and  _____  stated: "The question of the   biological effect ... o     
[003] Chinese; health, hygiene, medical aid and preventive    _____ ; hospitals (inadequate) and nurses (scanty);   food an     
[004] 0 years. Today, as Harrison's   Principles of Internal  _____ , a standard internist's   text, puts it, "The most com     
[005] bles, Florida, and the University   of Miami School of  _____ , set out to discover if   avocados, because of their h     
[006] ibilities.   The benefits electronics can bring to bio- _____    may be greater by far than any previous medical disc     
[007] any previous medical discovery.   We use the term "bio- _____ " because of the close   interrelation between biology      
[008] medical research.      Electronics has been applied to  _____  for many   years in the form of such familiar equipmen     
[009]   ocean floors, and even communicate under water. In    _____  the frequencies are much higher, transducers   and the     
[010] thecary shop, which helped stimulate his   interest in  _____  and science. His earlier love   for literature and his     
[011] ssion. While Hans devoted himself   to the sciences of  _____ , physics, and astronomy,   his brother studied law. Th     
[012] tor of Philosophy along with a prize for an essay   in  _____ . He proposed a fresh theory of alkalis   which later w     


	
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[001] Covent Garden   in 1959. (The first Metropolitan Opera  _____  on   Dec. 9 will introduce her as Lucia.) She has sinc     
[002] , roaringest college weekend   anywhere, any time- was  _____  over a national   television   hookup, Prexy John Sloa     
[003] n for "side" cropped up again   in the same television  _____ . Dean Thaddeus Seymour,   wearing ski clothes, was cro     
[004]  distant baseball park.      In some cities games were  _____  throughout the   week and then on weekends the announc     
[005]   and fans must needs drive to the city from all the    _____  area to discover how their heroes were faring.   This      
[006] ion and instructions, including the   time and date of  _____ .      Family rationing probably will be necessary.         
[007] he present proceeding is concerned with the standard    _____  ( AM) band, from 540 kc. to 1600 kc. Whenever   two or     
[008] om 540 kc. to 1600 kc. Whenever   two or more standard  _____  stations operate   simultaneously   on the same or clo     
[009]  propagation   conditions with respect to the standard  _____    frequencies.   This is a phenomenon familiar to all      
[010] local origin to as many listeners   as possible. Since  _____  frequencies are very limited   in number, these object     
[011]  a small radio dialed permanently on a station   which  _____  only vulgar commercials and cheap popular   music. Eve     
[012] uld fall on me- I don't   relish recriminations spread  _____  outside my family   .... I'm not giving you a chance,      


	
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[001] the hope   of one-sided concessions, and the chance to  _____  the   Allies, rather than genuine negotiation, were th     
[002] ecognize all the   pressures that led to the big labor  _____  in 1935.      Now, as then, it is a matter of jobs. Cr     
[003] at reapportionment, which left   many Democratic clubs  _____  by these new district   boundaries,   actually will in     
[004] e Western community. By our policy the   West was- is-  _____ .      But the key revelation is not new. The controlli     
[005] ich is easily understandable. The One Leg Lunge is   a  _____  and all lifters practice this in their regular   worko     
[006] orks much better because a greater, more   extensive    _____  can be performed. Used in several sets of high   reps      
[007]  height of   your shoulders when you are in a deep leg  _____  as   for a heavy Clean.   _2._      Place a suitably-l     
[008] eet forward and backward until you are   in a deep leg  _____ .      Now raise the weight by straightening your front     
[009] ld in front of   the neck. Squat-style lifters and leg- _____  lifters   would both benefit enormously by practicing      
[010] age 261).      The candles were lighted, and we sat on  _____ -bamboo   mats among the village notables. I was carefu     
[011] wart removal method was to rub each   wart with a bean  _____  open and then to bury the bean   halves under the drip     
[012]  the introductory chapter that   metropolitan life had  _____  into two trends- expanding   interdependence on an imp     


	
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[001] t.      Alacrity, the Podger cat, came by the hammock,  _____    her back briefly against it, and then, sure of a wel     
[002] tinents. For almost 3,000 years Europe   and Asia have  _____  shoulders in its streets.      Founded in the Ninth Ce     
[003] e wart with sulphur water; another said   it should be  _____  with a cut potato three times daily.   Another common      
[004] as nuts, are roasted seeds whose   seedcoats have been  _____  off.      Cereal grains, supplemented with soybeans or     
[005] nts of the last few days flooded   David's mind and he  _____  his unshaved chin and felt   again the ache in his kid     
[006] d, then one of us would have had to go   instead. Hans  _____  the kid with more snow ...                                 
[007]                             the kid with more snow ...  _____    ...                                                      
[008]                                                    ...  _____ .      "I'll get more snow", I said. I took the pail an     
[009]  I'll come by and see that she stays put".      Grosse  _____  the bridge of his nose where it was   swollen. He spok     
[010] ere on account of one lousy kid".   ##   Lauren Landis  _____  her face against the blanket.   She had cried a little     
[011] o you   need a bandage"? she asked steadily.      Poet  _____  his arm. "It's like banging a shin",   he said, his ey     
[012] st you a cent, Phil. Go ahead and   try me"!      Phil  _____  his forehead wearily. He was beginning   to feel wooll     


	
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[001] most   of them can bolt one down in mid-shimmy.   _THE  _____  POT._      All over the country, belly clubs have neve     
[002] me to belly dancing from this and   other origins, the  _____  pot has never bubbled more   intriguingly. Some Manhat     
[003] Concerto with   his own slashing, demon-ridden cadenza  _____  into   the high, pale, pure and lovely song with which     
[004] immortal; but if   he did not, he would become mortal,  _____  into earth,   whence his frame had been taken". These      
[005] they are too hot, and to stop flames that arise from    _____  grease.      Do line barbecue fire bowl with heavy foi     
[006]  A ton of cooling   compares to the cooling you get by  _____  a ton of   ice. By accepted definition, a 1-ton condit     
[007] n oral tradition.   Nor have we remembered that in the  _____  pot of America   the hundreds of isolated and semi-iso     
[008]  principle. However, technical difficulties arise by    _____  at local hot spots. The experimental arrangement   as      
[009]  city- the crowded, competitive, tolerant city, the   " _____  pot" which gave off so many of the most admirable   Am     
[010] ites from Australia) give the appearance of a   second  _____ . In conformity with this conclusion   a higher trace g     
[011]  in the portion   (flange) that has undergone a second  _____ . The silicate   fractions of stony meteorites show gal     
[012] to those of tektites because they too   have undergone  _____  at some point in their histories.      Libyan Desert s     


	
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[001] f them can bolt one down in mid-shimmy.   _THE MELTING  _____ ._      All over the country, belly clubs have never be     
[002] lly dancing from this and   other origins, the melting  _____  has never bubbled more   intriguingly. Some Manhattan      
[003] cco.      The hostler would have the table ready and a  _____    of coffee hissing on the stove; then a porter from       
[004] and   100% more fun. You need a little stove, a coffee  _____    and a stew                                               
[005]                                             and a stew  _____ ; maybe a skillet, a basket of essentials   like salt,      
[006] radition.   Nor have we remembered that in the melting  _____  of America   the hundreds of isolated and semi-isolate     
[007] from the University   returned around six with a large  _____  containing enough   hot soup to last me a week. A volu     
[008] he crowded, competitive, tolerant city, the   "melting  _____ " which gave off so many of the most admirable   Americ     
[009] ng by the hearth, breaking up hardtack   into a pan. A  _____  was boiling on the coals. "Done give   Ole Buckra all      
[010]  look what he done   give us".      Adam looked at the  _____ . "What is it"? he asked.      "Chicken", Mose said, an     
[011] dumped the pan of crumbled hardtack into the   boiling  _____  of lobscouse. "Good ole lob-scuse", he   mumbled, and      
[012] e. "Good ole lob-scuse", he   mumbled, and stirred the  _____ . He stopped stirring and   looked over his shoulder. "     


	
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[001]  you have it licked, this golf   course can get up and  _____  you", Player had said one   afternoon midway through t     
[002] p, The gray-backs o'er my   body creep; If they should  _____  before I wake, I pray   the Lord their jaws to break""     
[003] Many an old-timer   swore by the saliva method; "get a  _____ , spit on it"   was a proverb. This was used also for b     
[004] ss, State can   expect only that its summer guest will  _____  its hand   when it goes to the Capitol asking money fo     
[005] yellow snapdragons   that by pinching could be made to  _____ ; seed-pods of   the balsams that snapped like fire-cra     
[006]  all about".      She shook her head. She took another  _____  of toast.   Holden noticed almost absently how she che     
[007] nkly nude beside him in the desert, "That was a good    _____ . Maybe I will grow another head. That would make   B'd     
[008]  "What is your name, boy? Come a bit closer. I won't    _____ , you know".      He gaped at Madame Lalaurie and sniff     
[009] ll. And what had happened? Gunny invariably   tried to  _____  her. Nerves, Mr. Robards said, just a   nip anyway. "S     
[010]  time the rough edges of the bark. She felt the lash    _____  and heard her father say in crazed monosyllables   wor     
[011]  egg loving enemy to boot). In  addition, a bluegill's  _____  does little damage to a nest raiding  bullhead catfish     
[012] y. THEY  are  tiny slips of paper that can have a real  _____ . Millions of  holders of Advanta credit cards have rec     


	
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[001] elped was my brother. Mama had told   her how Emmett's  _____  had been affected when he was   gassed in the war. He      
[002] rnment service. But again,   there was danger that his  _____  would suffer in the   muggy Washington weather, and he     
[003] inging barriers and   entering the alveolar bed of the  _____ . This area is   highly susceptible to infection. The e     
[004] t many marked and striking differences   exist between  _____  when an inter-species comparison   is made. The signif     
[005]  of the intrapulmonary features of various mammalian    _____  other than in the dog and cat (Miller, '13; '25).          
[006]  expect such   an event to occur in animals possessing  _____  of types   /1, or /2,.      The presence of normally o     
[007] ve physiology, pathology, and histology   of mammalian  _____ . In addition, a detailed interspecies   survey of the      
[008] UMMARY#   The main subgross anatomical features of the  _____    of various mammals are presented. A tabulation of th     
[009] resented. A tabulation of these   features permits the  _____  to be grouped into three   distinctive subgross types.     
[010] mmon iliac arteries were completely occluded.      The  _____  weighed together 950 gm. On the surfaces   of both         
[011]     weighed together 950 gm. On the surfaces   of both  _____  there were emphysematous blebs measuring   up to 3 cm.     
[012] olomon Chandler   hadn't misjudged the strength of his  _____ , not at   all. I think you could have heard him a mile     


	
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[001] leaders. These gentlemen   already have done the party  _____  by their seeming   reluctance   to vote aid for the de     
[002]  finished their drinks.      They do our country great  _____  by such actions.   Those in the public eye should be g     
[003] won victory- for that is his duty".      "It only does  _____  to talk to troops about new and   desirable equipment      
[004] greater probability   of actually doing more good than  _____ . If an evil which   is certain and extensive and immed     
[005] oom, and feed and bench them where they can't   do any  _____  to the furnishings or the furniture.      In the morni     
[006] ys practicable, is well worth the effort.   It does no  _____  for wine to stand on end for a matter   of days, but i     
[007] d bottle   and an inefficient corkscrew may do as much  _____  as   a week at sea. The cork should be pulled graduall     
[008] ery time that nationalist fervors can wreak   greatest  _____ . Historically, however, the concept is   one that has      
[009] lieve that the friendship   might be continued without  _____  to her reputation.   In any case, she told Thompson th     
[010]   a junior position abroad, can be a source of great    _____  to our policy; the attitudes of a U.N. delegate   who      
[011] which there have been   too many recently, may do more  _____  than good; for   such programs raise hopes of assistan     
[012] nctioning,   was a phobic-like fear that some terrible  _____  would   befall the second twin, whose birth had not be