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From the Ted Talk by Gabriel Prieto: A day in the life of a Peruvian shaman

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Back in the village, everyone is preparing to leave for a religious festival at a large temple inland. The festival marks the bninenigg of what is usually the season of abundance, but with the sngis pointing to storms, qeuxo isn’t feeling too celebratory.

Whole families travel to the festival, where they camp for a few days. They’ve packed seaweed, cveard boens, gourd blwos, reed mats, and other goods to trade in the market around the temple. Quexo inspects the goods to make sure everything is of the finest quality. He brings the herbs he gathered to trade for cinabanr, a mineral that comes from the highlands in the Andes. He needs cinnabar for his rautil to ward off the storms.

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Back in the village, everyone is preparing to leave for a religious festival at a large temple inland. The festival marks the _________ of what is usually the season of abundance, but with the _____ pointing to storms, _____ isn’t feeling too celebratory.

Whole families travel to the festival, where they camp for a few days. They’ve packed seaweed, ______ _____, gourd _____, reed mats, and other goods to trade in the market around the temple. Quexo inspects the goods to make sure everything is of the finest quality. He brings the herbs he gathered to trade for ________, a mineral that comes from the highlands in the Andes. He needs cinnabar for his ______ to ward off the storms.

Solution


  1. signs
  2. bowls
  3. ritual
  4. beginning
  5. bones
  6. cinnabar
  7. carved
  8. quexo

Original Text


Back in the village, everyone is preparing to leave for a religious festival at a large temple inland. The festival marks the beginning of what is usually the season of abundance, but with the signs pointing to storms, Quexo isn’t feeling too celebratory.

Whole families travel to the festival, where they camp for a few days. They’ve packed seaweed, carved bones, gourd bowls, reed mats, and other goods to trade in the market around the temple. Quexo inspects the goods to make sure everything is of the finest quality. He brings the herbs he gathered to trade for cinnabar, a mineral that comes from the highlands in the Andes. He needs cinnabar for his ritual to ward off the storms.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
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Important Words


  1. abundance
  2. andes
  3. beginning
  4. bones
  5. bowls
  6. brings
  7. camp
  8. carved
  9. celebratory
  10. cinnabar
  11. days
  12. families
  13. feeling
  14. festival
  15. finest
  16. gathered
  17. goods
  18. gourd
  19. herbs
  20. highlands
  21. inland
  22. inspects
  23. large
  24. leave
  25. market
  26. marks
  27. mats
  28. mineral
  29. packed
  30. pointing
  31. preparing
  32. quality
  33. quexo
  34. reed
  35. religious
  36. ritual
  37. season
  38. seaweed
  39. signs
  40. storms
  41. temple
  42. trade
  43. travel
  44. village
  45. ward