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From the Ted Talk by William McDonough: Cradle to cradle design

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

So, we're looking at the same criteria as most people — you know, can I afford it? Does it work? Do I like it? We're adding the Jeffersonian agenda, and I come from Charlottesville, where I've had the privilege of living in a house designed by Thomas Jefferson. We're adding life, liberty and the puisrut of happiness. Now if we look at the word "competition," I'm sure most of you've used it. You know, most people don't realize it comes from the Latin competere, which means strive together. It means the way oyilpmc athletes train with each other. They get fit together, and then they compete. The waimills ssteris compete — one wins Wimbledon. So we've been looking at the idea of competition as a way of coranioeptg in order to get fit together. And the cseinhe gvenmroent has now — I work with the Chinese government now — has taken this up. We're also looking at survival of the fstetit, not in just coiottpiemn terms in our modern context of destroy the other or beat them to the ground, but really to fit together and build niches and have growth that is good.

Open Cloze


(Laughter)

So, we're looking at the same criteria as most people — you know, can I afford it? Does it work? Do I like it? We're adding the Jeffersonian agenda, and I come from Charlottesville, where I've had the privilege of living in a house designed by Thomas Jefferson. We're adding life, liberty and the _______ of happiness. Now if we look at the word "competition," I'm sure most of you've used it. You know, most people don't realize it comes from the Latin competere, which means strive together. It means the way _______ athletes train with each other. They get fit together, and then they compete. The ________ _______ compete — one wins Wimbledon. So we've been looking at the idea of competition as a way of ___________ in order to get fit together. And the _______ __________ has now — I work with the Chinese government now — has taken this up. We're also looking at survival of the _______, not in just ___________ terms in our modern context of destroy the other or beat them to the ground, but really to fit together and build niches and have growth that is good.

Solution


  1. williams
  2. government
  3. fittest
  4. sisters
  5. competition
  6. cooperating
  7. olympic
  8. chinese
  9. pursuit

Original Text


(Laughter)

So, we're looking at the same criteria as most people — you know, can I afford it? Does it work? Do I like it? We're adding the Jeffersonian agenda, and I come from Charlottesville, where I've had the privilege of living in a house designed by Thomas Jefferson. We're adding life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Now if we look at the word "competition," I'm sure most of you've used it. You know, most people don't realize it comes from the Latin competere, which means strive together. It means the way Olympic athletes train with each other. They get fit together, and then they compete. The Williams sisters compete — one wins Wimbledon. So we've been looking at the idea of competition as a way of cooperating in order to get fit together. And the Chinese government has now — I work with the Chinese government now — has taken this up. We're also looking at survival of the fittest, not in just competition terms in our modern context of destroy the other or beat them to the ground, but really to fit together and build niches and have growth that is good.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
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chinese government 3
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technical nutrition 2
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Important Words


  1. adding
  2. afford
  3. agenda
  4. athletes
  5. beat
  6. build
  7. charlottesville
  8. chinese
  9. compete
  10. competere
  11. competition
  12. context
  13. cooperating
  14. criteria
  15. designed
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  17. fit
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  19. good
  20. government
  21. ground
  22. growth
  23. happiness
  24. house
  25. idea
  26. jefferson
  27. jeffersonian
  28. latin
  29. laughter
  30. liberty
  31. life
  32. living
  33. means
  34. modern
  35. niches
  36. olympic
  37. order
  38. people
  39. privilege
  40. pursuit
  41. realize
  42. sisters
  43. strive
  44. survival
  45. terms
  46. thomas
  47. train
  48. williams
  49. wimbledon
  50. wins
  51. word
  52. work