full transcript
From the Ted Talk by Elizabeth White: An honest look at the personal finance crisis
Unscramble the Blue Letters
These days I'm buying the $1.99 trial-size jug of Tide to make ends meet. I bet you didn't know laundry degrenett came in that size. You invite me to the same expensive restaurants the two of us have always enjoyed, but I order mineral water now with a twist of lemon, not the 12-dollar glass of coahnrandy. I am fargul in my menu choices. Meticulous, I count every penny in my head. I dmuer ddviinig the table bill evenly to cover dtersses and designer coffees and second and third glasses of wine I did not consume.
Open Cloze
These days I'm buying the $1.99 trial-size jug of Tide to make ends meet. I bet you didn't know laundry _________ came in that size. You invite me to the same expensive restaurants the two of us have always enjoyed, but I order mineral water now with a twist of lemon, not the 12-dollar glass of __________. I am ______ in my menu choices. Meticulous, I count every penny in my head. I _____ ________ the table bill evenly to cover ________ and designer coffees and second and third glasses of wine I did not consume.
Solution
- frugal
- demur
- dividing
- desserts
- chardonnay
- detergent
Original Text
These days I'm buying the $1.99 trial-size jug of Tide to make ends meet. I bet you didn't know laundry detergent came in that size. You invite me to the same expensive restaurants the two of us have always enjoyed, but I order mineral water now with a twist of lemon, not the 12-dollar glass of chardonnay. I am frugal in my menu choices. Meticulous, I count every penny in my head. I demur dividing the table bill evenly to cover desserts and designer coffees and second and third glasses of wine I did not consume.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
social security |
4 |
food stamps |
2 |
ends meet |
2 |
faking normal |
2 |
retirement income |
2 |
retirement plan |
2 |
long time |
2 |
retirement crisis |
2 |
Important Words
- bet
- bill
- buying
- chardonnay
- choices
- coffees
- consume
- count
- cover
- days
- demur
- designer
- desserts
- detergent
- dividing
- ends
- enjoyed
- evenly
- expensive
- frugal
- glass
- glasses
- head
- invite
- jug
- laundry
- lemon
- meet
- menu
- meticulous
- mineral
- order
- penny
- restaurants
- size
- table
- tide
- twist
- water
- wine