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From the Ted Talk by Alex Rosenthal: The World Machine | Think Like A Coder, Ep 10

Unscramble the Blue Letters

As Ethic falls, she remembers. She remembers the wolrd before they unearthed the cyrastl. She remembers the glee she felt when she built her first rboot. But mostly she remembers the friends she’s made these last few days: courageous Adila and her resistance mevomnet. Octavia’s sacrifice to keep the guards distracted. Lemma and her idealistic drive to cure everyone. And Hedge. Her creation, her responsibility, her failure… her beyterar. Hedge, who convinced her to collect the three nodes that she never actually needed. For Ethic remembers how to operate the World Machine. If only she could get a second cnahce at it.

Open Cloze

As Ethic falls, she remembers. She remembers the _____ before they unearthed the _______. She remembers the glee she felt when she built her first _____. But mostly she remembers the friends she’s made these last few days: courageous Adila and her resistance ________. Octavia’s sacrifice to keep the guards distracted. Lemma and her idealistic drive to cure everyone. And Hedge. Her creation, her responsibility, her failure… her ________. Hedge, who convinced her to collect the three nodes that she never actually needed. For Ethic remembers how to operate the World Machine. If only she could get a second ______ at it.

Solution

  1. crystal
  2. betrayer
  3. robot
  4. chance
  5. movement
  6. world

Original Text

As Ethic falls, she remembers. She remembers the world before they unearthed the crystal. She remembers the glee she felt when she built her first robot. But mostly she remembers the friends she’s made these last few days: courageous Adila and her resistance movement. Octavia’s sacrifice to keep the guards distracted. Lemma and her idealistic drive to cure everyone. And Hedge. Her creation, her responsibility, her failure… her betrayer. Hedge, who convinced her to collect the three nodes that she never actually needed. For Ethic remembers how to operate the World Machine. If only she could get a second chance at it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
world machine 2
dead ends 2

Important Words

  1. adila
  2. betrayer
  3. built
  4. chance
  5. collect
  6. convinced
  7. courageous
  8. creation
  9. crystal
  10. cure
  11. distracted
  12. drive
  13. ethic
  14. falls
  15. felt
  16. friends
  17. glee
  18. guards
  19. hedge
  20. idealistic
  21. lemma
  22. machine
  23. movement
  24. needed
  25. nodes
  26. operate
  27. remembers
  28. resistance
  29. responsibility
  30. robot
  31. sacrifice
  32. unearthed
  33. world