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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] often wondered,' said Mr Prendergast.  Well, I have no  _____  in that direction. But Nature forces it  upon us, and      
[002] for a moment regret her refusal, or have the slightest  _____   to see him ever again.  She was saddened when she tho     
[003] at last with mutual politeness, and possibly a  mutual  _____  never to meet again.  When Lydia left for Brighton, El     
[004] ssatisfaction  does not automatically translate into a  _____  for union  membership. The larger problem is America's     
[005]  perspective. John knew what was behind his  father's   _____ , but he also realized that no one outside the family       
[006] age  seems to  suit him as well. Inspired by 'Wings of  _____ ,' Wim Wenders'  critically acclaimed film of 1988, 'Ci     
[007] e  support.' On Europe, his Euro-scepticism includes a  _____   to  repatriate power back to the UK. If there is a di     
[008] ible fully to sympathise with the Pope's  overwhelming  _____  to protect life, it is also important to see  that thi     
[009] e alone. Portillo recently quoted Isaiah  Berlin: 'The  _____  not to be impinged upon, to be left to  oneself, has b     
[010] e are indeed all the same under the skin because  our   _____  is for protection (best supplied by East Anglian  actu     
[011] ds, but they fear the  giant to  the south and have no  _____  to see their country subsumed  into  the Chinese econo     
[012] , what these two had most in  common was  a successful  _____  to construct fictional versions of their own  lives. T     
[013] mosexual rape, as enacted  in  her novel, The Infernal  _____  Machines of Dr Hoffman. All  very  odd. The burgeoning     
[014] nd  Villains,  The Passion of New Eve and The Infernal  _____  Machines.  They  analyse more easily than her best - m     
[015] s the true (Kanner syndrome) autist  has  little or no  _____  to make contact with other people the  Asperger indivi     
[016] wish to live, a  development of the death  wish, and a  _____  for suicide that was prevented only by  fear. But  for     
[017] with an expression on his  face that was a mixture  of  _____ , anger, and misery.  The great kitchen was full of peo     
[018]  to the water-voles,'  said Urk, his eyes  bright with  _____ .  'What! At this time of night?' cried Mrs Beetle, dee     
[019] often wondered,' said Mr Prendergast.  Well, I have no  _____  in that direction. But Nature forces it  upon us, and      
[020] for a moment regret her refusal, or have the slightest  _____   to see him ever again.  She was saddened when she tho     
[021] at last with mutual politeness, and possibly a  mutual  _____  never to meet again.  When Lydia left for Brighton, El     


	
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[001] lay of  finger wagging. Smoking? Don't do it near your  _____ ,  and  don't endorse movies that glamorize it. Violenc     
[002] really mean? Does it mean that anyone (a  disgruntled   _____ , landlord, ex-lover or passer-by) can call the  author     


	
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[001] roportionately, the better-off  when the bill is fully  _____ .    In her Aug. 24 Outlook article, 'Lost at the Museu     
[002]  is also a reflection of the city. It would not  be as  _____  if it was set in a stage school in North  Carolina.' D     
[003] g  glee of 'understanding a little less', what hope of  _____ ,  cost-efficient crime policies? The Independent COMME     
[004] ther suppliers in the field of open learning, a cost-   _____  method of delivering training     By STEPHEN PRITCHARD     
[005] be held in London next week. 'Open  learning is a cost- _____  way of building those skills.' The  exhibition will br     
[006] grow. Those  who  have tried it say it is an extremely  _____  way to rekindle an  interest in study - and it can ope     
[007] cariously, just as Beth relies so much upon the  more   _____  and exciting Jo. I suppose it was my Beth-like  leanin     
[008] ct teams. Professor Hughes's priority now is  to  find  _____  ways of ensuring that practising teachers get to  hear     
[009] rse materials at Luton University,  Bedfordshire, made  _____  study impossible. She was a  student  in 1993, the fir     


	
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[001] reensboro, N. C., who supported  Mr.  Lyons before his  _____  but has since become one of his  sharpest critics. As      
[002] in union representation, a worker must first  seek  an  _____  monitored by the National Labor Relations Board  (NLRB     
[003]   bargaining unit want union representation. Before an  _____   is  held, however, the NLRB must address any legal is     
[004] re finally revealed in December, six weeks after  the   _____ , the defense fund and White House contended that  the      
[005] ted donations  quiet was to postpone until late in the  _____  cycle the  controversy over campaign fund-raising abus     
[006] licans  threatening to hold hearings on the Teamsters'  _____   problems.  And much of the establishment media is pre     
[007] fficer. The constitutional oath he took following  his  _____  in 1990 and his reelection in 1994 requires that  he       
[008] litical alliances capable of holding beyond  the  next  _____  -difficulties often replicated in cities where  browns     
[009] nization spawned after the army's cancellation of  an   _____  in early 1992 that the now-banned Islamic Salvation  F     
[010] ed in politics as the nation heads  toward a scheduled  _____  in May. Mr. Hun Sen has said he  will  play by the rul     
[011] t his opponents, and some political analysts, say the   _____   cannot be considered free and fair as long as Prince      
[012] aign-finance  violations and  should have annulled the  _____  sooner, rather than waiting  until after Mr. Carey led     
[013] handle it with the same aplomb  that  I handled the re- _____  of George Bush," Mr. Rogich says  dryly.  (We're count     
[014] 1964-70, and has personally  never  lost in a national  _____ . He has served on more  government  committees than  a     
[015] er of the  autobiography, which describes the critical  _____  of 1964,  won  an award for political writing and appe     
[016] aracters Parliament will lose if Labour wins the next   _____ ,  but a meeting the other day reminded me how refreshi     
[017] r anyway - so maybe he will have a job  after the next  _____  come what may. LUCK is rather  important  in the horse     
[018]  the British embassy in Paris before the last  general  _____ : 'There were footmen, there was a four-  poster  bed,      
[019] ng at eight  o'clock. You see, I'm a candidate for the  _____  and I've  got a problem tonight. I had arranged for Cr     
[020] o ask a man you had met in a car crash  to speak at an  _____  meeting, but I needed his help.  'All right,' I said.      


	
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[001] nd and for their  children and grandchildren. They had  _____  in a new freedom  of spirit, and a silent happiness fi     
[002] d Paquette  surrender themselves in a splendid leap of  _____ , and are  sucked  into the empty blue. The leap carrie     
[003] ous Jewish values that he  cherishes. Elliott Abrams's  _____  or Fear and Daniel Gordis's  Does the World Need the J     
[004] ions  that  underlie them, are evidence of a crisis of  _____  among  American  Jews. What prescription can cure this     
[005] ons were sick, and he faced bleak  prospects, but  his  _____  was as a mule. In time, the California missions would      
[006] ily functions,  obsessive cleanliness and the Catholic  _____ .    It's nearly midnight when Neil Patrick Harris sits     
[007] usicals and stars such as Marilu  Henner  ('Chicago'),  _____  Prince ('The King and I') and Ruben Blades  ('The Cape     
[008] he  kids  from 'Fame' didn't make it. One man kept the  _____ , however:  David De Silva, the show's creator     By J     
[009] w do these  Christians reconcile the altruism of their  _____  with the  competitive and commercial imperatives of mo     
[010] er captain Gavin  Peacock, who  wrote a book about his  _____  called Never Walk Alone. It was  co-  written with Ala     
[011] trigue. The most central  thing in my life has been my  _____ . I can't talk about my life  and cut that out.' Akabus     
[012] fe  and cut that out.' Akabusi is in no doubt that his  _____  and his  sporting performance became inseparable. When     
[013] ry on. Illingworth may be underestimating the power of  _____   in  cricket. 'Wingers', as he is known to the players     
[014] he support of the people in the pews. They  feel their  _____  is affirmed by seeing fellow believers at the  pinnacl     
[015] religion to the  margins  of life.' Sacks, in his book  _____  in the Future, cited Adam  Smith as an originator of '     
[016] he late-1970s response to punk show they've  kept the   _____  and it had its first and most influential American  ex     
[017] nd and for their  children and grandchildren. They had  _____  in a new freedom  of spirit, and a silent happiness fi     


	
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[001] ,' he said.  He could not have chosen a better opening  _____ . Mr  Collins ins spoke enthusiastically for several mi     
[002] n  the smaller summer breakfast-room at Rosings!' This  _____   had not at first please his hostess very much, but wh     
[003]  danced for some time in silence, and then she made a   _____ . He replied, and was silent again. After a pause, she      
[004] ain.  'Now you must say something, Mr Darcy. You could  _____   on the size of the room, or the number of couples.' H     
[005] n kinder than to myself.'  Elizabeth treated this last  _____  with disdain, but its  meaning did not escape her. 'Bu     
[006]  Mr  Bingley, while throwing the occasional unpleasant  _____  in  Mr Darcy's direction. The only positive eect of th     
[007]  five years after this, Angela's opening gambit  was a  _____  that the man she lived with had just thrown a  typewri     
[008] win becomes like a shadow after eight years.'  Nancy's  _____  made Bee stop and think. What could she  remember of       
[009]  him out on  a killer  horse with no more than a light  _____  about the horse  'haying its tricks'.  That evening Be     
[010] danced happily together, not  speaking  much. Her only  _____  was: 'Who taught you to cheat  someone out of a race l     
[011] me across the Port to the Lucella.  'Why did Grafalk's  _____  about Bledsoe's school upset  him so much?'  I asked b     
[012] istress?'  Colour stained her cheeks. 'What an oensive  _____ . I have  nothing to say to you.'  'Then I'll have to d     
[013]  Morse.  'I'm glad about that.'  'Except for your last  _____ . I just don't believe you were a  bad  teacher, that's     
[014] Flora's watch,  Reuben finally produced the following   _____ : 'in scranletted  five o' the fields today.'  'Did you     
[015] hall meet again  sometime...'  Mr Mybug jumped at this  _____ , which Flora had let slip  unintentionally, and said e     
[016] l say anything about me?'  Flora could only remember a  _____  about stepping into  dead men's shoes, which it would      
[017]  to allow  us to sit at all!'  Everyone smiled at this  _____  and Tenjy's uncle poured  more beer into Woods' glass.     
[018] ,' he said.  He could not have chosen a better opening  _____ . Mr  Collins ins spoke enthusiastically for several mi     
[019] n  the smaller summer breakfast-room at Rosings!' This  _____   had not at first please his hostess very much, but wh     
[020]  danced for some time in silence, and then she made a   _____ . He replied, and was silent again. After a pause, she      
[021] ain.  'Now you must say something, Mr Darcy. You could  _____   on the size of the room, or the number of couples.' H     
[022] n kinder than to myself.'  Elizabeth treated this last  _____  with disdain, but its  meaning did not escape her. 'Bu     
[023]  Mr  Bingley, while throwing the occasional unpleasant  _____  in  Mr Darcy's direction. The only positive eect of th     


	
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[001]  view, and has shown that genetics has a  mathematical  _____ .  He's been able to show  what genetic  arrangements a     
[002] en program.  The  article also misstated the selection  _____  for the program.  Corrected information is provided.       
[003] ority to negotiate  trade agreements on a 'fast-track'  _____ . That essentially  means  Congress cannot amend such p     
[004]  thief of the 19th century, could  have  furnished the  _____  of a great novel. No need though: In 'The  Napoleon of     
[005] ncertainties of operating [in China] on a day-  to-day  _____  are very, very high,' said Denis Simon, head of  the       
[006] nding  bay, the seafood industry is no longer the sole  _____  of the  economy.    It was just a hole bored beneath a     
[007] er harassment, abuse and  discrimination on a personal  _____  -also are delighted by the  memorial. They see it as a     
[008] m every department is visited on a subject-by-subject   _____ .  Previously, they were classed in three broad bands:      
[009] illicit.' This takes us a  long way from acting on the  _____  of 'mere probability'. In its  treatment of euthanasia     
[010] sts has recently claimed  to  have established a sound  _____ . He generally held views  sympathetic to the Soviet go     
[011] n  maybe we  have done something . . .' So what is the  _____  for the  authority  claimed by religious leaders in an     
[012] ike Michael Portillo, agonise publicly about the moral  _____   for  their politics, they tend to end up by stressing     
[013]  view, and has shown that genetics has a  mathematical  _____ .  He's been able to show  what genetic  arrangements a     


	
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[001]  a  lot of time on me if  hadn't. We're supposed to co- _____  with the police, aren't  we?'  'Was it really necessar     
[002]  it's important to keep him happy.  We want  him to co- _____  with  us.'  'You're perfectly right, of course,' said      
[003] w, when it was  nearly time to leave, she had begun to  _____  her plan.  Thirty hours! Plenty of time. And even if h     
[004] nd of how Strelnikov, the terror of the region,  would  _____ .  Yury was brought to this office and then forgotten.      
[005] the plant would cost more than $300 million a year to   _____ , driving up city water and sewer rates even more  than     
[006] dels  of the universe as it was mistakenly believed to  _____ ,  Jencks  suggests, should not the task of the archite     
[007] urse. Several large firms, such as British  Aerospace,  _____  open learning centres, which staff can  use for  profe     
[008]  a  lot of time on me if  hadn't. We're supposed to co- _____  with the police, aren't  we?'  'Was it really necessar     
[009]  it's important to keep him happy.  We want  him to co- _____  with  us.'  'You're perfectly right, of course,' said      
[010] w, when it was  nearly time to leave, she had begun to  _____  her plan.  Thirty hours! Plenty of time. And even if h     
[011] nd of how Strelnikov, the terror of the region,  would  _____ .  Yury was brought to this office and then forgotten.      


	
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[001] my own problems. I had plenty of  . . opportunities to  _____  St John and Miss Oliver  together.  Every  day St John     
[002] stant sun set, and then  he went back to the window to  _____  results. As he looked  in, he saw Lellie putting on he     
[003] e think he should stay here for a time so that we  can  _____  him. This will give us the opportunity to clear his  m     
[004] That reply  will  do for the moment. Perhaps soon I'll  _____  that private  balls are much pleasanter than public on     
[005]  that Elizabeth spoke admiringly of him,  took care to  _____  them both. She saw enough to make  her a little anxiou     
[006] but neither at that  moment nor at any other could she  _____  any sign of love  or even interest in his cousin.  Lad     
[007] ized how serious his  attachment was. I was careful to  _____  your sister closely,  and as her manners and appearanc     
[008] e it is so meaninglessly beautiful -  and  I'm glad to  _____  there's no shortage yet. It's in Sleepless  in  Seattl     
[009] my own problems. I had plenty of  . . opportunities to  _____  St John and Miss Oliver  together.  Every  day St John     
[010] stant sun set, and then  he went back to the window to  _____  results. As he looked  in, he saw Lellie putting on he     
[011] e think he should stay here for a time so that we  can  _____  him. This will give us the opportunity to clear his  m     
[012] That reply  will  do for the moment. Perhaps soon I'll  _____  that private  balls are much pleasanter than public on     
[013]  that Elizabeth spoke admiringly of him,  took care to  _____  them both. She saw enough to make  her a little anxiou     
[014] but neither at that  moment nor at any other could she  _____  any sign of love  or even interest in his cousin.  Lad     
[015] ized how serious his  attachment was. I was careful to  _____  your sister closely,  and as her manners and appearanc     


	
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[001]  very special year. So I decided that my diary should   _____  only important notes. They would be written in my  bes     
[002] ed  advice which brought money to him. They might even  _____   cheques or pound notes, and that thought was exciting     
[003] ut I was interested only in facts, and the note might   _____  a new one. I opened the envelope and read:  Dearest, I     
[004]  to the requisite  corpses, Taylor's village mysteries  _____  atmospheric  postwar  details about fuel shortages and     
[005] a chance on permitting consumption of meat that could   _____  the potentially deadly E. coli 0157:H7 bacteria that       
[006] rable to the others.  Wittgenstein's posthumous papers  _____  essentially the  same  thesis. Possessed of a large ph     
[007] the historical process. Of course Mac-  Neice's  poems  _____  magical fusions. But a vital part of their  character      
[008] y quite simple. We have been making a list which  will  _____  all the possible names  of God.'  Dr Wagner's eyes ope     
[009]  very special year. So I decided that my diary should   _____  only important notes. They would be written in my  bes     
[010] ed  advice which brought money to him. They might even  _____   cheques or pound notes, and that thought was exciting     
[011] ut I was interested only in facts, and the note might   _____  a new one. I opened the envelope and read:  Dearest, I