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From the Ted Talk by Kelli Anderson: Design to challenge reality

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So, I get to tinker with everyday eiceeepxrns. As we go through our everyday lives, vsuial and experiential things exert this invisible authority over our brains at all times. And they ylied this power in subtle and seakny ways. So visuals, for example, speak volumes through these teeny, tiny details, codified in things like type, shape, color and texture. So these small, pckiy things form the vocabulary that come together and make the sennectes, enabling us to make tangible things like ... a solar-powered Popsicle truck.

Open Cloze

So, I get to tinker with everyday ___________. As we go through our everyday lives, ______ and experiential things exert this invisible authority over our brains at all times. And they _____ this power in subtle and ______ ways. So visuals, for example, speak volumes through these teeny, tiny details, codified in things like type, shape, color and texture. So these small, _____ things form the vocabulary that come together and make the _________, enabling us to make tangible things like ... a solar-powered Popsicle truck.

Solution

  1. sneaky
  2. picky
  3. visual
  4. sentences
  5. experiences
  6. yield

Original Text

So, I get to tinker with everyday experiences. As we go through our everyday lives, visual and experiential things exert this invisible authority over our brains at all times. And they yield this power in subtle and sneaky ways. So visuals, for example, speak volumes through these teeny, tiny details, codified in things like type, shape, color and texture. So these small, picky things form the vocabulary that come together and make the sentences, enabling us to make tangible things like ... a solar-powered Popsicle truck.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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  30. type
  31. visual
  32. visuals
  33. vocabulary
  34. volumes
  35. ways
  36. yield