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From the Ted Talk by Kaustav Dey: How fashion helps us express who we are -- and what we stand for
Unscramble the Blue Letters
The time is now to stand up, to sntad out. Where sameness is safeness, with something as simple as what we wear, we can draw every eye to ourselves to say that there are differences in this world, and there always will be. Get used to it. And this we can say without a single word. Fashion can give us a language for dessnit. It can give us crauoge. Fashion can let us literally wear our courage on our sleeves. So wear it. Wear it like amorr. Wear it because it mtrtaes. And wear it because you matter.
Open Cloze
The time is now to stand up, to _____ out. Where sameness is safeness, with something as simple as what we wear, we can draw every eye to ourselves to say that there are differences in this world, and there always will be. Get used to it. And this we can say without a single word. Fashion can give us a language for _______. It can give us _______. Fashion can let us literally wear our courage on our sleeves. So wear it. Wear it like _____. Wear it because it _______. And wear it because you matter.
Solution
- stand
- dissent
- courage
- armor
- matters
Original Text
The time is now to stand up, to stand out. Where sameness is safeness, with something as simple as what we wear, we can draw every eye to ourselves to say that there are differences in this world, and there always will be. Get used to it. And this we can say without a single word. Fashion can give us a language for dissent. It can give us courage. Fashion can let us literally wear our courage on our sleeves. So wear it. Wear it like armor. Wear it because it matters. And wear it because you matter.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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black corduroy |
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fashion police |
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Important Words
- armor
- courage
- differences
- dissent
- draw
- eye
- fashion
- give
- language
- literally
- matter
- matters
- safeness
- sameness
- simple
- single
- sleeves
- stand
- time
- wear
- word
- world