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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

  1. stand
  2. dissent
  3. courage
  4. armor
  5. 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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collocation frequency
black corduroy 2
fashion police 2

Important Words

  1. armor
  2. courage
  3. differences
  4. dissent
  5. draw
  6. eye
  7. fashion
  8. give
  9. language
  10. literally
  11. matter
  12. matters
  13. safeness
  14. sameness
  15. simple
  16. single
  17. sleeves
  18. stand
  19. time
  20. wear
  21. word
  22. world