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From the Ted Talk by Leah Chase and Pat Mitchell: An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine

Unscramble the Blue Letters

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Open Cloze

So we learned that the hard way. And they taught you that. They taught you what women had to do. We were ______ that _____ controlled the behavior of men. How you act, they will act. So you've got to do that, and I tell you all the time. You know, don't play this man down. It upsets me when you may have a husband that maybe he doesn't have as much education under his belt as you have, but still you can't play him down. You've got to keep lifting him up, because you don't want to live with a _____. So you want that man to be a man, and do what he has to do. And anyway, always ________, he runs on cheap gas.

Solution

  1. women
  2. mouse
  3. remember
  4. taught

Original Text

So we learned that the hard way. And they taught you that. They taught you what women had to do. We were taught that women controlled the behavior of men. How you act, they will act. So you've got to do that, and I tell you all the time. You know, don't play this man down. It upsets me when you may have a husband that maybe he doesn't have as much education under his belt as you have, but still you can't play him down. You've got to keep lifting him up, because you don't want to live with a mouse. So you want that man to be a man, and do what he has to do. And anyway, always remember, he runs on cheap gas.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

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young women 2
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thurgood marshall 2
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george patton 2
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Important Words

  1. act
  2. behavior
  3. belt
  4. cheap
  5. controlled
  6. education
  7. gas
  8. hard
  9. husband
  10. learned
  11. lifting
  12. live
  13. man
  14. men
  15. mouse
  16. play
  17. remember
  18. runs
  19. taught
  20. time
  21. upsets
  22. women