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Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan

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I am the (1)________ model of a modern Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I know the kings of England
And I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very (2)________ acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm (3)______________ (4)________ a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With many cheerful facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
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I'm very (5)________ at integral and differential calculus
I know the scientific (6)__________ of beings animalculous
In short, in (7)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
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I know our (8)____________ history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer (9)________ acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In (10)____________ I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels (11)________ Gerard (12)________ and Zoffanies
I know the croaking chorus
From The Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of which I've heard the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And whistle all the airs
From that infernal nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And (13)________ you every detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in (14)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
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In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (15)__________ a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And (16)__________________ I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been (17)________ in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (18)____________________ of elemental strategy
(Oh, that's a hard one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a-gee
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm (19)____________ and adventury
Has (20)________ been brought down
To the (21)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
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(One (22)________ time?!)
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In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of (23)______________ than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never rode a horse!
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has (24)________ been brought down
To the (25)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
(1) very(2) well(3) teeming(4) with(5) good(6) names(7) matters(8) mythic(9) hard(10) conics(11) from(12) Dows(13) tell(14) matters(15) sight(16) surprises(17) made(18) smattering(19) plucky(20) only(21) beginning(22) more(23) tactics(24) only(25) beginning