Cloze Directions: There are 10 blanks in the passage. For each blank, the first letter of the word has been given. Read the passage below and think of the word that best fits each blank. Use only one word in each blank. In every cultivated language, there are two great classes of words which, taken together, comprise the whole vocabulary. First, there are hose words 1) w _____ which we become acquainted in daily conversation, which we 2) l _____ that is to say, from the members of our own family and from our familiar associates, and which we should know and use even if we could not read or write. They 3) c _____ the common things of life, and are the stock of all who 4) s _____ the language. Such words may be called “popular,” since they belong to the people at large and are not the exclusive 5) p _____ of a limited class. On the other hand, our language 6) i _____ a multitude of words, which are comparatively 7) s _____ used in ordinary conversation. Every educated person knows their meanings, but there is a little association to use them at home or in the market place. Our 8) f ______ acquaintance with them comes not from our mother’s lips or from the talk of our schoolmates, 9) b _____ from books that we read, lectures that we hear, or the more formal conversation of highly educated speakers who are discussing some particular topic in a style appropriately elevated above the habitual 10) l _____ of everyday life. Such words are called “learned,” and the distinction between them and “popular” words is of great importance to a right understanding of linguistic process.