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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?

annoyed apple lump prejudice ripe scorn shallow thumb toys wicked
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[001] n to invite me: I smiled.  For some reason this really  _____  her. She stopped  making the tea, and threw herself an     
[002] ainst the window.  But I could not sleep. The knocking  _____  me so much  that  I tried to open the window. When it      
[003] e picked up a bowl of hot soup and threw it at Edgar.   _____  him! Why did you speak to him?' 'I didn't,' replied  E     
[004] t Wuthering  Heights,  under Heathcli's influence, she  _____  Hindley, laughed at  Joseph, and was rude to me. But a     
[005]  politely as he could. However, he grew more and more   _____  as he watched his wife's delighted face. She could  no     
[006] Hareton, whose clothes were old and dirty.  I was very  _____  with her and Zillah. Now Heathcli would  hear about hi     
[007]  'A letter from the housekeeper at the Grange: I said,  _____   with her. She gasped, and tried to pick it up, but Ha     
[008] Almost all his patients told him  their  dreams, which  _____  the  psychiatrist, who  never remembered having a drea     
[009] re positive it's the same man?'  Gantner began to look  _____ . 'I said it to the police and  jury,  Nudger. Colt kil     
[010] 'How very kind,' said Flora, who was privately rather   _____ . If she lived at Cold Comfort as a guest,  it would be     
[011]  taps, and stood admiring it for  some time. Flora was  _____ , and went  crossly out for a walk.  She often received     
[012] her in Charles's neat handwriting.  She was extremely   _____ . 'My letters, please,' she said firmly, holding out he     
[013] Mybug, who had hoped to find Flora alone, was looking   _____ . He became even more                                       
[014]                                  . He became even more  _____   when he heard Mr  Neck call Flora 'sweetheart', but a     
[015] won't leave until he sees me.'  Ann hesitated. She was  _____  by this black woman  who.  had so much confidence. But     
[016]  but there was no  sign of anyone. Woods began to feel  _____ . Then  something near the tree caught his eye. A tall      
[017] ll  building. 'Come, follow me.'  Woods felt even more  _____ . He sighed and walked  across the yard to the building     
[018] u, Mr Woods?' he  enquired.  Woods hesitated, a little  _____  by the question. 'Forty  two,' he answered. 'If that m     
[019] newspaper,  his glasses down his nose. He was a little  _____  at being  disturbed. Tm Donald Woods.'  'You complaine     
[020] to break off our friendship,' said  Woods.  Lemick was  _____  by this familiarity. 'Just open the  door!'  Biko yawn     
[021] ko yawned. 'Do you have a warrant?'  Lemick, even more  _____ , pulled the document from his  pocket and waved it in      
[022] ould have done to make the plan succeed, he got quite   _____  and challenged me to do better. Well, I was  delighted     
[023] ide. And talk  about it fully with Penny.'  Ashton was  _____ , but he tried to hide it. 'Well, we can  wait a week       
[024] ds  were1  moved to our department and Cregar was very  _____ .  He always thought  that Ashton might  do something       
[025]  and  her teacher, Miss Scatcherd, appeared constantly  _____   by her.  'Burns, hold your head up, can't you!'  'Bur     


	
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[001] can't stop crying.  Poor Heathcli! Hindley says he  is  _____ , and can't play with me or eat with me any more:  My e     
[002] or Earnshaw, or  whatever her name was, must have been  _____ ! She told  me she had been a ghost for nearly twenty y     
[003]  or attending  church services.  Catherine was a wild,  _____  girl in those days. We had to  watch her every moment      
[004] hts with her, even if  I'm punished by Joseph and that  _____  Hindley, than at  Thrushcross Grange with those two fo     
[005] e time I was shouting and swearing at them.  , "What a  _____  pair of thieves!" said old Mr Linton. "The  boy must b     
[006] rought home from Liverpool a few  years ago." "'He's a  _____  boy, you can see that," said Mrs  Linton.  "And did yo     
[007] hat her darlings were kept carefully apart from 'that   _____  boy'. I felt sorry for poor Heathcli, and while the  E     
[008] Joseph and me. Joseph enjoyed being able to  scold his  _____  employer, with warnings from the Bible, and  I could n     
[009] I screamed, to show Edgar what had happened. 'What  a   _____  thing to do, miss! You have no right to hurt me!' 'I       
[010]  everywhere,  immediately started sobbing and saying, ' _____  aunt  Catherine!' She picked him up and shook the poor     
[011] seemed like lost  sheep  to me, and I knew there was a  _____  wolf just waiting for the  chance to attack them.  Cat     
[012] e entered. 'Do you  think it's right to listen to this  _____  man's talk?' 'Have you  been listening at the door, Ed     
[013] he listen  to us talking in the kitchen? Heathcli says  _____  things, but  I know I can control him. Well, if I can'     
[014] nd be  happy with others, when I'm in my grave?' 'It's  _____  of you  to say that, Catherine. You know your words wi     
[015] ended to be angry to punish her.  'Well, miss! You are  _____ , going such a long way all alone!  I've been all over      
[016] ' answered Cathy. 'Father and Ellen both say  you're a  _____  man.' 'But this is about my son Linton, not  me. What      
[017] , healthy young  lady?' I cried. 'You must be mad! And  _____  too! You and  your father have tricked us into coming      
[018]   I'm glad I'm not you!' 'Go and get your clothes, you  _____   girl,' he said. 'We'll be leaving in a few minutes.'      
[019] shall have her  in my arms, not Edgar!' 'You were very  _____ , Mr Heathcli,  to disturb the dead!'  'I disturbed nob     
[020]  stood up, staring at her fiercely.  'Out of the room,  _____  girl!' he shouted. 'I'll kill you if I get  near you!'     
[021] warned him that would  happen!' he cried. 'You see how  _____  he is, smiling at  death!  But thank God Hareton Earns     
[022] s.'  'Except on the check,' Nudger said.  She smiled a  _____  twelve year old's smile. 'Oh, sure, don't  worry  abou     
[023] said Judith at last, in a deep, dry voffice. 'Coward!   _____  one! Will you ever lead a moral life?  Who were you wi     
[024] , but  'tes too late! You ll burn with' all the other   _____  sinners! You'll have  to say what your sins have been.     
[025] s looking at Flora with a face as black as  thunder.  ' _____  woman!' he cried, pointing at her.  'No, really, Cousi     


	
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[001] holding several  envelopes, and that his  bloodstained  _____  had made a red mark on an envelope  addressed to her i     
[002] et them. Little Chiole just stood and stared with her   _____  in her mouth. 'She doesn't know much English yet,'  sa     
[003]  he forced himself to smile. He slowly lifted his own   _____ .  The crowd cheered. "Maximus! Maximus!" they shouted.     
[004] n at Maximus. He raised his arm and  held out his hand- _____  down  Maximus raised his sword to kill Tigris... but s     
[005] dent. Pollin' (that  was the man's name) 'has hurt his  _____ . He'll have to leave  the field, and so we need our tw     
[006] t there were no  tears. His skin was cold and wet. His  _____  was in his  mouth,  his eyes were open and his body wa     
[007] t corner and began to cry.  Ricky was quiet again. His  _____  was back in his mouth,  and  his eyes were closed. Dia     
[008] his eyes tightly, put his head on Mark's knee and  his  _____  went into his mouth. He didn't speak another word  for     
[009] his eyes tightly, put his head on Mark's knee and  his  _____  went into his mouth. He didn't speak another word  for     
[010]  key he lay on the floor, closed his eyes, and put his  _____  in  his mouth.  'Mark,' shouted Doreen, when she saw h     
[011] ing.) Woman: Ouch! Look what  you've done! You hit  my  _____   with the hammer, you fool - just like last time  we d     
[012] is throat, it has to come out. If a woman has cut her   _____   with a cooking knife, the cut has to be cleaned and       
[013] particular hallmark of DNA to the shape of a nose or a  _____   has  been invoked more and more in an effort to ward      
[014] olonel left the hotel carrying between his  Finger and  _____  a small piece of metal, which he threw into  the sea a     
[015] holding several  envelopes, and that his  bloodstained  _____  had made a red mark on an envelope  addressed to her i     
[016] et them. Little Chiole just stood and stared with her   _____  in her mouth. 'She doesn't know much English yet,'  sa     
[017]  he forced himself to smile. He slowly lifted his own   _____ .  The crowd cheered. "Maximus! Maximus!" they shouted.     
[018] n at Maximus. He raised his arm and  held out his hand- _____  down  Maximus raised his sword to kill Tigris... but s     
[019] dent. Pollin' (that  was the man's name) 'has hurt his  _____ . He'll have to leave  the field, and so we need our tw     
[020] t there were no  tears. His skin was cold and wet. His  _____  was in his  mouth,  his eyes were open and his body wa     
[021] t corner and began to cry.  Ricky was quiet again. His  _____  was back in his mouth,  and  his eyes were closed. Dia     
[022] his eyes tightly, put his head on Mark's knee and  his  _____  went into his mouth. He didn't speak another word  for     
[023] his eyes tightly, put his head on Mark's knee and  his  _____  went into his mouth. He didn't speak another word  for     
[024]  key he lay on the floor, closed his eyes, and put his  _____  in  his mouth.  'Mark,' shouted Doreen, when she saw h     


	
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[001] , not to him.' 'Well, don't cry,' said Catherine  with  _____ . 'You've made enough trouble already. Here  comes my b     
[002] ve her. Now I think she's beginning to realize  that I  _____  her. She's an even weaker fool than her brother,  but      
[003] ent, and strong, and  handsome, but I've taught him to  _____  those qualities. So  now he's just an uneducated farm      
[004] , not to him.' 'Well, don't cry,' said Catherine  with  _____ . 'You've made enough trouble already. Here  comes my b     
[005] ve her. Now I think she's beginning to realize  that I  _____  her. She's an even weaker fool than her brother,  but      
[006] ent, and strong, and  handsome, but I've taught him to  _____  those qualities. So  now he's just an uneducated farm      


	
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[001] eady observed that while there is  still some foolish   _____  against living on one's friends, it is perfectly  resp     
[002] prise. 'Well, Dr Ramphele,  I've written against white  _____ , and if you think I'm  going to ignore black               
[003]          , and if you think I'm  going to ignore black  _____ , then you're complaining to  the wrong man!'  'Black       
[004]  , then you're complaining to  the wrong man!'  'Black  _____ ? Mamphela exploded in anger. 'That's  not what Steve B     
[005]   capable of any sort of apology. It was with a strong  _____   against anything he might say that she began reading      
[006] nk it her best work. Sense and Sensibility,  Pride and  _____  (1813) and Persuasion (1817) are three  of her books o     
[007] grapple with the  anxieties of sexual identity, racial  _____ , bodily functions,  obsessive cleanliness and the Cath     
[008]  in Romania, and Cioran expresses  similar  xenophobic  _____  against the Hungarians. It was an  unfortunate but per     
[009] 's toughest?'  contest encourages public ignorance and  _____ . It fuels a  fear of crime far beyond what is rational     
[010] r contemporaries, Laurraine  knows  that she will face  _____ , but is aware of t he abilities she  can employ to ove     
[011] eady observed that while there is  still some foolish   _____  against living on one's friends, it is perfectly  resp     
[012] prise. 'Well, Dr Ramphele,  I've written against white  _____ , and if you think I'm  going to ignore black               
[013]          , and if you think I'm  going to ignore black  _____ , then you're complaining to  the wrong man!'  'Black       
[014]  , then you're complaining to  the wrong man!'  'Black  _____ ? Mamphela exploded in anger. 'That's  not what Steve B     
[015]   capable of any sort of apology. It was with a strong  _____   against anything he might say that she began reading      
[016] nk it her best work. Sense and Sensibility,  Pride and  _____  (1813) and Persuasion (1817) are three  of her books o     


	
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[001] e  would go back for some small thing - one of Nicky's  _____  -  and be  killed! Then the  Christiansens would know      
[002] in another area;  two older men were making children's  _____  in a third  area.  'We're trying to create a centre wh     
[003] everything - windows, typewriters, chairs, children's   _____ .  Shaking with fear, Dilima quietly moved towards the      
[004] r children and training  exercises are not a place for  _____ . 1 repeat, do you  understand me? You look stupid. You     
[005]  for breakfast. Then I went shopping. Candy and  small  _____  for the kids, soap for them all, warm clothes in 'lots     
[006] y clients;  I went back to the church, leaving all the  _____  and clothes in  the car, but Ontario's family weren't      
[007] ose who haven't yet had the pleasure, Tamagotchis are   _____   that have a screen on which a creature appears and th     
[008] oughtfully  modified the product for Americans. In the  _____  sold in Japan,  the creature on the screen eventually      
[009] death (which can be undone via the reset button), and   _____  'R Us reports that each new shipment of the                
[010]            'R Us reports that each new shipment of the  _____  sells  out  within hours. Tamagotchi supporters argue      
[011] ut  within hours. Tamagotchi supporters argue that the  _____  are  inexpensive, space-efficient means for inculcatin     
[012] , so I had lots of  room, and there were no children's  _____  or bicycles or  other  objects in my way. It was mid-a     
[013]  ropes, seat  belts, furniture, computers,  children's  _____ , even spare parts for the human  body. It is  added to     
[014] raised when they  bang a  drum. And then there are the  _____ . Although the makers of so-  called educational            
[015]       . Although the makers of so-  called educational  _____  for pre-schoolers will freely admit in  private that t     
[016] the complexity - and  of  course price - of pre-school  _____  grows ever more alarming.  Given  the relentless round     
[017] is was. Japan was then simply a place that made cheap   _____ ,  imitation Western branded goods, and had done many       
[018]  world of his own, gazing up at trees  and  muttering.  _____  were never put to their intended use, and he  didn't k     
[019] ly calm as he looked out every  day at  the ships like  _____  in the sea,  with the endless  blue of the Eastern sky     
[020] re in the garden. Burning on the fire  were  Patrick's  _____ , his schoolbooks, even the silly wooden  horse that ha     
[021] e  would go back for some small thing - one of Nicky's  _____  -  and be  killed! Then the  Christiansens would know      
[022] in another area;  two older men were making children's  _____  in a third  area.  'We're trying to create a centre wh     
[023] everything - windows, typewriters, chairs, children's   _____ .  Shaking with fear, Dilima quietly moved towards the      
[024] r children and training  exercises are not a place for  _____ . 1 repeat, do you  understand me? You look stupid. You     
[025]  for breakfast. Then I went shopping. Candy and  small  _____  for the kids, soap for them all, warm clothes in 'lots     


	
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[001] marry  when in am eighteen. He sometimes climbs up the  _____ -  tree outside my window and watches me  undressing...     
[002] at vegetables  her parents were growing this year, the  _____  tree where  she'd played as a girl.  'What's down ther     
[003] sh field, his  hand touching the wheat. He looked past  _____  trees to a  farmhouse.  He heard a child laughing some     
[004] as he listened. He was smiling. "Through the gate are   _____  trees. The earth is black, Marcus. As black as my  Wif     
[005] were burning, completely  destroyed. The wheat and the  _____  trees were burnt black,  and smoke still curved upward     
[006] oward the  ruin of the house he had built, to the dead  _____  trees. He  spoke to his loved ones through his tears.      
[007] k wall... He saw a gate in the wall... and a field of   _____   trees beyond it. He pushed himself forward and, as he     
[008] ispered.  "In a car," he whispered back. "You got more  _____  juice?"  "Sure." I went to the kitchen and got him a c     
[009] ?"  "Sure." I went to the kitchen and got him a cup of  _____  juice  and more cookies.  The mother was sleeping agai     
[010]  a  tantalizingly fragrant cohesive mass. A platter of  _____   wedges,  button mushrooms, carrot slices and broccoli     
[011] g experiences I encountered as a neophyte in the  Big   _____  were delicately counterbalanced by my longing for the      
[012] d it's quite a big  garden. And that's a lovely mature  _____  tree  right in the  middle. Lots of space for your veg     
[013] lose some  weight. But then I  ordered a tiny piece of  _____  pie for dessert. I hadn't  eaten                           
[014]                      pie for dessert. I hadn't  eaten   _____  pie for a year, and really wanted to taste it again. '     
[015]   the same waitress  serving something very similar to  _____  pie to another table.  I  looked closer, and it WAS        
[016]    pie to another table.  I  looked closer, and it WAS  _____  pie. This seemed a bit  unusual,  and I  wondered what     
[017] tress was trying to do. Had she  told  me there was no  _____   pie by mistake? Seeing the  expression on  my face, s     
[018] ike fruit - all kinds of fruit, you  know? Banana, and  _____  together,  like that. Or colours  together  - purple w     
[019] ry to explain any  of  it. This stuff's as American as  _____  pie. The writer is the  author of a history of the Ang     
[020] re complicated.  Delinquency is  no longer a matter of  _____  scrumping and walking down the  road  with your posses     
[021] e evening he was sitting at the side window eating an   _____  and looking down on to the tops of the  huge umbrellas     
[022] marry  when in am eighteen. He sometimes climbs up the  _____ -  tree outside my window and watches me  undressing...     
[023] at vegetables  her parents were growing this year, the  _____  tree where  she'd played as a girl.  'What's down ther     
[024] sh field, his  hand touching the wheat. He looked past  _____  trees to a  farmhouse.  He heard a child laughing some     
[025] as he listened. He was smiling. "Through the gate are   _____  trees. The earth is black, Marcus. As black as my  Wif     


	
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[001] use I'd just realised, Ian wasn't nice at all. He was   _____ , dishonest and only interested in himself.  When I loo     
[002] ept for Pete. Pete is definitely kind and good,  not a  _____  liar like Ian. And yet I want to get rid of him.  What     
[003] personal specimen cabinets,  elegant  constructions of  _____ , dovetailed drawers segmented into  a  grid of compart     
[004] s. Always check the  depth before you dive. Remember -  _____  water  is safe for  children, but dangerous for divers     
[005] o the ship's  boat, which by now was waiting for me in  _____  water.  'Will you go home again soon?' asked Jim, just     
[006] stop for  something else. So the boat  runs aground in  _____  water near the river bank. You jump  up, and  you push     
[007] saw that the ground all around him was broken up with   _____  holes and bits of old stone  wall covered in grass. Th     
[008] p your boat here?'  Grafalk laughed. 'The water is too  _____  here. I keep my  yacht at  the harbour in Lake Blu.'       
[009]  the Phillips's house to the Grafalks'.  I climbed the  _____  wide seeps to the front door and rang  the bell.  Mrs      
[010] use I'd just realised, Ian wasn't nice at all. He was   _____ , dishonest and only interested in himself.  When I loo     
[011] ept for Pete. Pete is definitely kind and good,  not a  _____  liar like Ian. And yet I want to get rid of him.  What     


	
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[001]  year, I have too many vegetables to keep, but they're  _____  and  I have to pick them.'  'Don't keep them, then,' F     
[002] square of Bunol turned red in a giant food fight with   _____  tomatoes. Upwards of 20,000 people pelted one  another     
[003] the place was a blank canvas,' he  remembers.  'It was  _____  for drama. '    Just across Thousand Oaks Boulevard fr     
[004] aw  some  at the  grocer's yesterday, but they weren't  _____  yet, still  green. I tasted one and it  was quite bitt     
[005]  year, I have too many vegetables to keep, but they're  _____  and  I have to pick them.'  'Don't keep them, then,' F     


	
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[001] cked him. Biko's lips  were  swollen, there was a huge  _____  on his forehead, and bruises  around his eyes. Ntsiki      
[002] , dark surface. Jupiter IV/II was  nothing more than a  _____  of rock, about sixty kilometres  round.  Duncan left t     
[003] tched the screen as the huge, lifeless, cruel,  boring  _____  of rock came closer and closer. Its temperature  was m     
[004] n his suitcase.  Customs  officers said they noticed a  _____  in  the man's suitcase as he  was walking through, and     
[005] woke up in an ambulance on the way to hospital with a   _____   on my head'. The                                          
[006]                                       on my head'. The  _____  was caused by hitting her head on the  floor  when  sh     
[007]  form of a  tuition fee for each student rather than a  _____  sum as before.  The more students they enrolled, the m     
[008] cked him. Biko's lips  were  swollen, there was a huge  _____  on his forehead, and bruises  around his eyes. Ntsiki      
[009] , dark surface. Jupiter IV/II was  nothing more than a  _____  of rock, about sixty kilometres  round.  Duncan left t     
[010] tched the screen as the huge, lifeless, cruel,  boring  _____  of rock came closer and closer. Its temperature  was m