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From the Ted Talk by Sarah Kaminsky: My father the forger

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All my childhood, while my friends' dads would tell them Grimm's firay tales, my father would tell me seirots about very umiuassnng heroes with unshakeable utopias who managed to make maleicrs. And those heroes did not need an army behind them. Anyhow, nobody would have followed them, except for a handful [of] men and women of conviction and courage. I understood much later that actually it was his own story my father would tell me to get me to sleep. I asked him whether, considering the sacrifices he had to make, he ever had any regrets. He said no. He told me that he would have been unable to winstes or submit to injustice without doing anything. He was persuaded, and he's still cenvnciod that another world is possible — a world where no one would ever need a forger. He's still dreaming about it. My father is here in the room today. His name is aodflo Kaminsky and I'm going to ask him to stand up. (Applause) Thank you.

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All my childhood, while my friends' dads would tell them Grimm's _____ tales, my father would tell me _______ about very __________ heroes with unshakeable utopias who managed to make ________. And those heroes did not need an army behind them. Anyhow, nobody would have followed them, except for a handful [of] men and women of conviction and courage. I understood much later that actually it was his own story my father would tell me to get me to sleep. I asked him whether, considering the sacrifices he had to make, he ever had any regrets. He said no. He told me that he would have been unable to _______ or submit to injustice without doing anything. He was persuaded, and he's still _________ that another world is possible — a world where no one would ever need a forger. He's still dreaming about it. My father is here in the room today. His name is ______ Kaminsky and I'm going to ask him to stand up. (Applause) Thank you.

Solution

  1. convinced
  2. miracles
  3. stories
  4. fairy
  5. witness
  6. adolfo
  7. unassuming

Original Text

All my childhood, while my friends' dads would tell them Grimm's fairy tales, my father would tell me stories about very unassuming heroes with unshakeable utopias who managed to make miracles. And those heroes did not need an army behind them. Anyhow, nobody would have followed them, except for a handful [of] men and women of conviction and courage. I understood much later that actually it was his own story my father would tell me to get me to sleep. I asked him whether, considering the sacrifices he had to make, he ever had any regrets. He said no. He told me that he would have been unable to witness or submit to injustice without doing anything. He was persuaded, and he's still convinced that another world is possible — a world where no one would ever need a forger. He's still dreaming about it. My father is here in the room today. His name is Adolfo Kaminsky and I'm going to ask him to stand up. (Applause) Thank you.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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