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From the Ted Talk by Anand Giridharadas: A letter to all who have lost in this era

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And the more fundamentalist I became in my whrosip of change and openness, the more I drove you towards the other polarity, to cling, to freeze, to close, to belong.

I now see as I didn't before that not having the right skin or right organ is not the only varietal of disadvantage. There is a subtler, qeiteur disadvantage in having those pigirleevd traits and yet feneilg history to be mivnog away from you; that while the past was hospitable to people like you, the future will be more hospitable to others; that the world is growing less familiar, less yours day by day.

I will not cdneoce for a momnet that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough. It is for you to learn to live in a new century in which there are no bonuses for showing up with the right skin and right organs. If and when your agenr turns to hate, please know that there is no space for that in our shared home. But I will admit, fellow citizen, that I have discounted the burden of coping with the loss of status. I have fegttoron that what is socially necessary can also be personally gruelling.

Open Cloze


And the more fundamentalist I became in my _______ of change and openness, the more I drove you towards the other polarity, to cling, to freeze, to close, to belong.

I now see as I didn't before that not having the right skin or right organ is not the only varietal of disadvantage. There is a subtler, _______ disadvantage in having those __________ traits and yet _______ history to be ______ away from you; that while the past was hospitable to people like you, the future will be more hospitable to others; that the world is growing less familiar, less yours day by day.

I will not _______ for a ______ that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough. It is for you to learn to live in a new century in which there are no bonuses for showing up with the right skin and right organs. If and when your _____ turns to hate, please know that there is no space for that in our shared home. But I will admit, fellow citizen, that I have discounted the burden of coping with the loss of status. I have _________ that what is socially necessary can also be personally gruelling.

Solution


  1. privileged
  2. concede
  3. anger
  4. quieter
  5. worship
  6. moment
  7. feeling
  8. forgotten
  9. moving

Original Text


And the more fundamentalist I became in my worship of change and openness, the more I drove you towards the other polarity, to cling, to freeze, to close, to belong.

I now see as I didn't before that not having the right skin or right organ is not the only varietal of disadvantage. There is a subtler, quieter disadvantage in having those privileged traits and yet feeling history to be moving away from you; that while the past was hospitable to people like you, the future will be more hospitable to others; that the world is growing less familiar, less yours day by day.

I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough. It is for you to learn to live in a new century in which there are no bonuses for showing up with the right skin and right organs. If and when your anger turns to hate, please know that there is no space for that in our shared home. But I will admit, fellow citizen, that I have discounted the burden of coping with the loss of status. I have forgotten that what is socially necessary can also be personally gruelling.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. admit
  2. anger
  3. belong
  4. bonuses
  5. burden
  6. century
  7. change
  8. citizen
  9. cling
  10. close
  11. concede
  12. coping
  13. day
  14. disadvantage
  15. discounted
  16. drove
  17. dwindle
  18. familiar
  19. fast
  20. feeling
  21. fellow
  22. forgotten
  23. freeze
  24. fundamentalist
  25. future
  26. growing
  27. gruelling
  28. hate
  29. history
  30. home
  31. hospitable
  32. learn
  33. live
  34. loss
  35. moment
  36. moving
  37. openness
  38. organ
  39. organs
  40. people
  41. personally
  42. polarity
  43. privileged
  44. privileges
  45. quieter
  46. shared
  47. showing
  48. skin
  49. socially
  50. space
  51. status
  52. subtler
  53. traits
  54. turns
  55. varietal
  56. world
  57. worship