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From the Ted Talk by Clint Smith: The danger of silence
Unscramble the Blue Letters
We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rrlaey pay attention to the things they don't. selncie is the reduise of fear. It is fneleig your flaws gut-wrench guillotine your tongue. It is the air retreating from your chest because it doesn't feel safe in your lgnus. Silence is Rwandan genocide. Silence is Katrina. It is what you hear when there aren't enough body bags left. It is the sound after the noose is already tied. It is charring. It is chains. It is prlivigee. It is pain. There is no time to pick your battles when your battles have already picked you.
Open Cloze
We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we ______ pay attention to the things they don't. _______ is the _______ of fear. It is _______ your flaws gut-wrench guillotine your tongue. It is the air retreating from your chest because it doesn't feel safe in your _____. Silence is Rwandan genocide. Silence is Katrina. It is what you hear when there aren't enough body bags left. It is the sound after the noose is already tied. It is charring. It is chains. It is _________. It is pain. There is no time to pick your battles when your battles have already picked you.
Solution
- lungs
- silence
- privilege
- feeling
- residue
- rarely
Original Text
We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't. Silence is the residue of fear. It is feeling your flaws gut-wrench guillotine your tongue. It is the air retreating from your chest because it doesn't feel safe in your lungs. Silence is Rwandan genocide. Silence is Katrina. It is what you hear when there aren't enough body bags left. It is the sound after the noose is already tied. It is charring. It is chains. It is privilege. It is pain. There is no time to pick your battles when your battles have already picked you.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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Important Words
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- hear
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- lungs
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- pain
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- people
- pick
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- privilege
- rarely
- residue
- retreating
- rwandan
- safe
- silence
- sound
- spend
- tied
- time
- tongue