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From the Ted Talk by John Koenig: Beautiful new words to describe obscure emotions

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And about hafalwy through this project, I defneid "sonder," the idea that we all think of ourselves as the main cathcraer and everyone else is just extras. But in reality, we're all the main character, and you yourself are an etxra in someone else's story. And so as soon as I published that, I got a lot of response from people saying, "Thank you for giving voice to something I had felt all my life but there was no word for that." So it made them feel less alone. That's the power of words, to make us feel less alone.

Open Cloze

And about _______ through this project, I _______ "sonder," the idea that we all think of ourselves as the main _________ and everyone else is just extras. But in reality, we're all the main character, and you yourself are an _____ in someone else's story. And so as soon as I published that, I got a lot of response from people saying, "Thank you for giving voice to something I had felt all my life but there was no word for that." So it made them feel less alone. That's the power of words, to make us feel less alone.

Solution

  1. character
  2. halfway
  3. defined
  4. extra

Original Text

And about halfway through this project, I defined "sonder," the idea that we all think of ourselves as the main character and everyone else is just extras. But in reality, we're all the main character, and you yourself are an extra in someone else's story. And so as soon as I published that, I got a lot of response from people saying, "Thank you for giving voice to something I had felt all my life but there was no word for that." So it made them feel less alone. That's the power of words, to make us feel less alone.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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english language 2
worth knowing 2
realest word 2

Important Words

  1. character
  2. defined
  3. extra
  4. extras
  5. feel
  6. felt
  7. giving
  8. halfway
  9. idea
  10. life
  11. lot
  12. main
  13. people
  14. power
  15. project
  16. published
  17. reality
  18. response
  19. story
  20. voice
  21. word
  22. words