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From the Ted Talk by Paul Nicklen: Animal tales from icy wonderlands

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So realizing I couldn't catch swimming pungnies, she'd get these other penguins and brnig them swolly towards me, bbibnog like this, and she'd let them go. This didn't work. I was laughing so hard and so emotional that my mask was flooding, because I was crying underwater, just because it was so aiamnzg. And so that didn't work. So then she'd get another penguin and try this ballet-like sexy display siidnlg down this icerebg like this. (Laughter) And she would sort of bring them over to me and offer it to me. This went on for four days. This just didn't happen a couple of times. And then so she realized I couldn't catch live ones, so she brought me dead penguins. (Laughter) Now I've got four or five penguins floating around my head, and I'm just sitting there shooting away. And she would often stop and have this dejected look on her face like, "Are you for real?" Because she can't believe I can't eat this penguin. Because in her world, you're either breeding or you're eintag — and I'm not breeding, so ...

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So realizing I couldn't catch swimming ________, she'd get these other penguins and _____ them ______ towards me, _______ like this, and she'd let them go. This didn't work. I was laughing so hard and so emotional that my mask was flooding, because I was crying underwater, just because it was so _______. And so that didn't work. So then she'd get another penguin and try this ballet-like sexy display _______ down this _______ like this. (Laughter) And she would sort of bring them over to me and offer it to me. This went on for four days. This just didn't happen a couple of times. And then so she realized I couldn't catch live ones, so she brought me dead penguins. (Laughter) Now I've got four or five penguins floating around my head, and I'm just sitting there shooting away. And she would often stop and have this dejected look on her face like, "Are you for real?" Because she can't believe I can't eat this penguin. Because in her world, you're either breeding or you're ______ — and I'm not breeding, so ...

Solution

  1. bring
  2. eating
  3. bobbing
  4. sliding
  5. penguins
  6. iceberg
  7. amazing
  8. slowly

Original Text

So realizing I couldn't catch swimming penguins, she'd get these other penguins and bring them slowly towards me, bobbing like this, and she'd let them go. This didn't work. I was laughing so hard and so emotional that my mask was flooding, because I was crying underwater, just because it was so amazing. And so that didn't work. So then she'd get another penguin and try this ballet-like sexy display sliding down this iceberg like this. (Laughter) And she would sort of bring them over to me and offer it to me. This went on for four days. This just didn't happen a couple of times. And then so she realized I couldn't catch live ones, so she brought me dead penguins. (Laughter) Now I've got four or five penguins floating around my head, and I'm just sitting there shooting away. And she would often stop and have this dejected look on her face like, "Are you for real?" Because she can't believe I can't eat this penguin. Because in her world, you're either breeding or you're eating — and I'm not breeding, so ...

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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leopard seal 6
national geographic 5
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wandered lonely 3
polar bears 3
dead bears 3
polar bear 2
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harbor seals 2
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food chain 2
dry mouth 2
threat display 2

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collocation frequency
entire life cycle 2

Important Words

  1. amazing
  2. bobbing
  3. breeding
  4. bring
  5. brought
  6. catch
  7. couple
  8. crying
  9. days
  10. dead
  11. dejected
  12. display
  13. eat
  14. eating
  15. emotional
  16. face
  17. floating
  18. flooding
  19. happen
  20. hard
  21. head
  22. iceberg
  23. laughing
  24. laughter
  25. live
  26. mask
  27. offer
  28. penguin
  29. penguins
  30. real
  31. realized
  32. realizing
  33. sexy
  34. shooting
  35. sitting
  36. sliding
  37. slowly
  38. sort
  39. stop
  40. swimming
  41. times
  42. underwater
  43. work
  44. world