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From the Ted Talk by Charlie Todd: The shared experience of absurdity

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So then I gave a new hand signal, which signaled the next soloist down below in Forever 21, and he denacd. There were several other activities. We had people jumping up and down, poelpe dropping to the gunrod. And I was standing just anonymously in a sweatshirt, putting my hand on and off of a trashcan to signal the advancement. And because it was in Union sqarue Park, right by a sbwuay station, there were hundreds of people by the end who stopped and looked up and watched what we were doing. There's a better photo of it.

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So then I gave a new hand signal, which signaled the next soloist down below in Forever 21, and he ______. There were several other activities. We had people jumping up and down, ______ dropping to the ______. And I was standing just anonymously in a sweatshirt, putting my hand on and off of a trashcan to signal the advancement. And because it was in Union ______ Park, right by a ______ station, there were hundreds of people by the end who stopped and looked up and watched what we were doing. There's a better photo of it.

Solution

  1. square
  2. people
  3. subway
  4. ground
  5. danced

Original Text

So then I gave a new hand signal, which signaled the next soloist down below in Forever 21, and he danced. There were several other activities. We had people jumping up and down, people dropping to the ground. And I was standing just anonymously in a sweatshirt, putting my hand on and off of a trashcan to signal the advancement. And because it was in Union Square Park, right by a subway station, there were hundreds of people by the end who stopped and looked up and watched what we were doing. There's a better photo of it.

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Important Words

  1. activities
  2. advancement
  3. anonymously
  4. danced
  5. dropping
  6. gave
  7. ground
  8. hand
  9. hundreds
  10. jumping
  11. looked
  12. park
  13. people
  14. photo
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  16. signal
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  18. soloist
  19. square
  20. standing
  21. station
  22. stopped
  23. subway
  24. sweatshirt
  25. trashcan
  26. union
  27. watched