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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
- bring
- eating
- bobbing
- sliding
- penguins
- iceberg
- amazing
- 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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Important Words
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