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From the Ted Talk by Clemantine Wamariya: War and what comes after

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When I was in ehitgh grade, my teacher gave me a vocabulary sehet with the word "genocide." I hated it. The word genocide is clinical ... overgeneral ... bloodless ... dehumanizing. No word can dciresbe what this does to a niaton. You need to know, in this kind of war, hanbdsus kills wevis, wives kill husbands, neighbors and friends kill each other. Someone in power says, "Those over there ... they don't belong. They're not human." And people believe it. I don't want words to describe this kind of behavior. I want words to stop it. But where are the words to stop this? And how do we find the words? But I believe, truly, we have to keep trying.

Open Cloze

When I was in ______ grade, my teacher gave me a vocabulary _____ with the word "genocide." I hated it. The word genocide is clinical ... overgeneral ... bloodless ... dehumanizing. No word can ________ what this does to a ______. You need to know, in this kind of war, ________ kills _____, wives kill husbands, neighbors and friends kill each other. Someone in power says, "Those over there ... they don't belong. They're not human." And people believe it. I don't want words to describe this kind of behavior. I want words to stop it. But where are the words to stop this? And how do we find the words? But I believe, truly, we have to keep trying.

Solution

  1. husbands
  2. sheet
  3. nation
  4. describe
  5. wives
  6. eighth

Original Text

When I was in eighth grade, my teacher gave me a vocabulary sheet with the word "genocide." I hated it. The word genocide is clinical ... overgeneral ... bloodless ... dehumanizing. No word can describe what this does to a nation. You need to know, in this kind of war, husbands kills wives, wives kill husbands, neighbors and friends kill each other. Someone in power says, "Those over there ... they don't belong. They're not human." And people believe it. I don't want words to describe this kind of behavior. I want words to stop it. But where are the words to stop this? And how do we find the words? But I believe, truly, we have to keep trying.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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