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From the Ted Talk by Poet Ali: The language of being human

Unscramble the Blue Letters

I want you to stay standing. Again, if I'm sankepig your language, please go ahead and stand. Imagine two bills in my hand. One is the phone bill, and one is the electric bill. Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, pay one off, let the other one go, which means, "I might not have enough to pay both at the cnrerut moment." You've got to be resourceful. You've got to figure it out. And if you're stnniadg, you know the language of barely making ends meet, of financial struggle. And if you've been lucky enough to speak that lganague, you understand that there is no motivator of greatness like deficiency. Not having resources, not having looks, not having fencinas can often be the barren soil from which the most productive seeds are painstakingly plowed and heesvratd.

Open Cloze

I want you to stay standing. Again, if I'm ________ your language, please go ahead and stand. Imagine two bills in my hand. One is the phone bill, and one is the electric bill. Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, pay one off, let the other one go, which means, "I might not have enough to pay both at the _______ moment." You've got to be resourceful. You've got to figure it out. And if you're ________, you know the language of barely making ends meet, of financial struggle. And if you've been lucky enough to speak that ________, you understand that there is no motivator of greatness like deficiency. Not having resources, not having looks, not having ________ can often be the barren soil from which the most productive seeds are painstakingly plowed and _________.

Solution

  1. standing
  2. current
  3. finances
  4. harvested
  5. speaking
  6. language

Original Text

I want you to stay standing. Again, if I'm speaking your language, please go ahead and stand. Imagine two bills in my hand. One is the phone bill, and one is the electric bill. Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, pay one off, let the other one go, which means, "I might not have enough to pay both at the current moment." You've got to be resourceful. You've got to figure it out. And if you're standing, you know the language of barely making ends meet, of financial struggle. And if you've been lucky enough to speak that language, you understand that there is no motivator of greatness like deficiency. Not having resources, not having looks, not having finances can often be the barren soil from which the most productive seeds are painstakingly plowed and harvested.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
dirt beneath 2
stay standing 2

Important Words

  1. barely
  2. barren
  3. bill
  4. bills
  5. current
  6. deficiency
  7. eeny
  8. electric
  9. ends
  10. figure
  11. finances
  12. financial
  13. greatness
  14. hand
  15. harvested
  16. imagine
  17. language
  18. lucky
  19. making
  20. means
  21. meeny
  22. meet
  23. miny
  24. mo
  25. moment
  26. motivator
  27. painstakingly
  28. pay
  29. phone
  30. plowed
  31. productive
  32. resourceful
  33. resources
  34. seeds
  35. soil
  36. speak
  37. speaking
  38. stand
  39. standing
  40. stay
  41. struggle
  42. understand