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From the Ted Talk by Kwame Anthony Appiah: Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question)

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This is a soul disc. There are many of them in the British msuuem. I could give you an interesting, different history of how it comes about that many of the things from my seitcoy ended up in the brtiish Museum, but we don't have time for that. So this object is a soul disc. What is a soul disc? It was worn around the nkecs of the soul-washers of the Asante king. What was their job? To wash the king's soul. It would take a long while to explain how a soul could be the kind of thing that could be washed, but Rattray knew that this was rleoiign because souls were in play.

Open Cloze

This is a soul disc. There are many of them in the British ______. I could give you an interesting, different history of how it comes about that many of the things from my _______ ended up in the _______ Museum, but we don't have time for that. So this object is a soul disc. What is a soul disc? It was worn around the _____ of the soul-washers of the Asante king. What was their job? To wash the king's soul. It would take a long while to explain how a soul could be the kind of thing that could be washed, but Rattray knew that this was ________ because souls were in play.

Solution

  1. museum
  2. religion
  3. society
  4. british
  5. necks

Original Text

This is a soul disc. There are many of them in the British Museum. I could give you an interesting, different history of how it comes about that many of the things from my society ended up in the British Museum, but we don't have time for that. So this object is a soul disc. What is a soul disc? It was worn around the necks of the soul-washers of the Asante king. What was their job? To wash the king's soul. It would take a long while to explain how a soul could be the kind of thing that could be washed, but Rattray knew that this was religion because souls were in play.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
large parts 4
religion works 2
natural world 2
creation story 2
intellectual division 2
soul disc 2

Important Words

  1. asante
  2. british
  3. disc
  4. ended
  5. explain
  6. give
  7. history
  8. interesting
  9. job
  10. kind
  11. king
  12. knew
  13. long
  14. museum
  15. necks
  16. object
  17. play
  18. rattray
  19. religion
  20. society
  21. soul
  22. souls
  23. time
  24. wash
  25. washed
  26. worn