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From the Ted Talk by Dustin Yellin: A journey through the mind of an artist

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Now, at some pniot I was in Hawaii — I like to hike and surf and do all that werid stuff, and I was making a collage for my ma. And I took a dictionary and I ripped it up, and I made it into a sort of Agnes Martin grid, and I proued resin all over it and a bee got stuck. Now, she's afraid of bees and she's allergic to them, so I poured more rsien on the canvas, thinking I could hide it or something. Instead, the opposite happened: It sort of caeetrd a magnification, like a magnifying glass, on the dictionary text.

Open Cloze

Now, at some _____ I was in Hawaii — I like to hike and surf and do all that _____ stuff, and I was making a collage for my ma. And I took a dictionary and I ripped it up, and I made it into a sort of Agnes Martin grid, and I ______ resin all over it and a bee got stuck. Now, she's afraid of bees and she's allergic to them, so I poured more _____ on the canvas, thinking I could hide it or something. Instead, the opposite happened: It sort of _______ a magnification, like a magnifying glass, on the dictionary text.

Solution

  1. resin
  2. poured
  3. point
  4. weird
  5. created

Original Text

Now, at some point I was in Hawaii — I like to hike and surf and do all that weird stuff, and I was making a collage for my ma. And I took a dictionary and I ripped it up, and I made it into a sort of Agnes Martin grid, and I poured resin all over it and a bee got stuck. Now, she's afraid of bees and she's allergic to them, so I poured more resin on the canvas, thinking I could hide it or something. Instead, the opposite happened: It sort of created a magnification, like a magnifying glass, on the dictionary text.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
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Important Words

  1. afraid
  2. agnes
  3. allergic
  4. bee
  5. bees
  6. canvas
  7. collage
  8. created
  9. dictionary
  10. glass
  11. grid
  12. hawaii
  13. hide
  14. hike
  15. ma
  16. magnification
  17. magnifying
  18. making
  19. martin
  20. point
  21. poured
  22. resin
  23. ripped
  24. sort
  25. stuck
  26. stuff
  27. surf
  28. text
  29. thinking
  30. weird