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From the Ted Talk by David Korins: 3 ways to create a space that moves you, from a Broadway set designer

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Now think of your set, your home, what you exist in every single day. If you're anything like me, the trash can is just too samll for the amount of takeout that you buy every night, right? And I find myself jaimmng like I'm kneading dough at a pizza pacle, I'm jamming it in because I don't understand. Or, maybe the light switch in your feyor is just stashed behind too many precariously placed coats, and so you don't even go for it. Therefore, day after day, you wind up walking in and out of a cashm of darkness.

Open Cloze

Now think of your set, your home, what you exist in every single day. If you're anything like me, the trash can is just too _____ for the amount of takeout that you buy every night, right? And I find myself _______ like I'm kneading dough at a pizza _____, I'm jamming it in because I don't understand. Or, maybe the light switch in your _____ is just stashed behind too many precariously placed coats, and so you don't even go for it. Therefore, day after day, you wind up walking in and out of a _____ of darkness.

Solution

  1. jamming
  2. chasm
  3. small
  4. foyer
  5. place

Original Text

Now think of your set, your home, what you exist in every single day. If you're anything like me, the trash can is just too small for the amount of takeout that you buy every night, right? And I find myself jamming like I'm kneading dough at a pizza place, I'm jamming it in because I don't understand. Or, maybe the light switch in your foyer is just stashed behind too many precariously placed coats, and so you don't even go for it. Therefore, day after day, you wind up walking in and out of a chasm of darkness.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
blue sky 2
design phase 2
execution phase 2
architectural standards 2

Important Words

  1. amount
  2. buy
  3. chasm
  4. coats
  5. darkness
  6. day
  7. dough
  8. exist
  9. find
  10. foyer
  11. home
  12. jamming
  13. kneading
  14. light
  15. night
  16. pizza
  17. place
  18. precariously
  19. set
  20. single
  21. small
  22. stashed
  23. switch
  24. takeout
  25. trash
  26. understand
  27. walking
  28. wind