Table 3.

Conditions Included in the Experiment and Sample Sentences

	Higher cloze probability	Lower cloze probability
High frequency, high ND	The first half of the test was hard.	The mold on the book made it stick.
High frequency, low ND	The point of the knife is too sharp.	The wives were tired and had many needs.
Low frequency, high ND	He will sob if you wreck his new bike.	Hurl a rotten peach at the witch.
Low frequency, low ND	He knelt to greet the king in the castle.	Yawn as you fib about your badge.

Note: Target words are underlined. ND = neighborhood density.