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From the Ted Talk by Tiffany Watt Smith: The history of human emotions

Unscramble the Blue Letters

But today, not only does the word mean something different — a sickening for a lost time rather than a lost place — but homesickness itself is seen as less serious, sort of downgraded from something you could die from to something you're mainly woirred your kid might be suffering from at a sleepover. This change seems to have happened in the elary 20th century. But why? Was it the ievniotnn of telephones or the expansion of the railways? Was it perhaps the coming of modernity, with its celebration of restlessness and tvarel and progress that made sickening for the famaiilr seem rather unmitiauobs? You and I inherit that massive transformation in values, and it's one reason why we might not feel homesickness toady as acutely as we used to. It's imparontt to understand that these large historical changes influence our emotions partly because they affect how we feel about how we feel.

Open Cloze

But today, not only does the word mean something different — a sickening for a lost time rather than a lost place — but homesickness itself is seen as less serious, sort of downgraded from something you could die from to something you're mainly _______ your kid might be suffering from at a sleepover. This change seems to have happened in the _____ 20th century. But why? Was it the _________ of telephones or the expansion of the railways? Was it perhaps the coming of modernity, with its celebration of restlessness and ______ and progress that made sickening for the ________ seem rather ___________? You and I inherit that massive transformation in values, and it's one reason why we might not feel homesickness _____ as acutely as we used to. It's _________ to understand that these large historical changes influence our emotions partly because they affect how we feel about how we feel.

Solution

  1. travel
  2. important
  3. invention
  4. worried
  5. today
  6. familiar
  7. unambitious
  8. early

Original Text

But today, not only does the word mean something different — a sickening for a lost time rather than a lost place — but homesickness itself is seen as less serious, sort of downgraded from something you could die from to something you're mainly worried your kid might be suffering from at a sleepover. This change seems to have happened in the early 20th century. But why? Was it the invention of telephones or the expansion of the railways? Was it perhaps the coming of modernity, with its celebration of restlessness and travel and progress that made sickening for the familiar seem rather unambitious? You and I inherit that massive transformation in values, and it's one reason why we might not feel homesickness today as acutely as we used to. It's important to understand that these large historical changes influence our emotions partly because they affect how we feel about how we feel.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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emotional lives 2
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Important Words

  1. acutely
  2. affect
  3. celebration
  4. century
  5. change
  6. coming
  7. die
  8. downgraded
  9. early
  10. emotions
  11. expansion
  12. familiar
  13. feel
  14. happened
  15. historical
  16. homesickness
  17. important
  18. influence
  19. inherit
  20. invention
  21. kid
  22. large
  23. lost
  24. massive
  25. modernity
  26. partly
  27. place
  28. progress
  29. railways
  30. reason
  31. restlessness
  32. sickening
  33. sleepover
  34. sort
  35. suffering
  36. telephones
  37. time
  38. today
  39. transformation
  40. travel
  41. unambitious
  42. understand
  43. values
  44. word
  45. worried