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From the Ted Talk by John Lloyd: An inventory of the invisible

Unscramble the Blue Letters


"I've misjudged this women," thought Mr. dkeincs. "Not only is she aware of her physical repulsiveness, she turns it to her advantage. A photo is not enough." So he went out and bought a plastic frame to put the pagtrpohoh in. And on the photograph, he wrote with a foislurh, "To Horse Face, with love from Geoffrey Dickens, M.P." After it had been sent off, his secretary said to him, "Did you get that letter from the woman at the fete? I wrote hosre Face on her, so you'd remember who she was." (Laughter)

I bet he thought he wished he was invisible, don't you? (Laughter)

So, one of the interesting things about iiiistlnvbiy is that things that we can't see we also can't understand. Gravity is one thing that we can't see and which we don't understand. It's the least usorendotd of all the four fdntnuaaeml forces, and the weakest. And nobody really knows what it is or why it's there.

Open Cloze


"I've misjudged this women," thought Mr. _______. "Not only is she aware of her physical repulsiveness, she turns it to her advantage. A photo is not enough." So he went out and bought a plastic frame to put the __________ in. And on the photograph, he wrote with a ________, "To Horse Face, with love from Geoffrey Dickens, M.P." After it had been sent off, his secretary said to him, "Did you get that letter from the woman at the fete? I wrote _____ Face on her, so you'd remember who she was." (Laughter)

I bet he thought he wished he was invisible, don't you? (Laughter)

So, one of the interesting things about ____________ is that things that we can't see we also can't understand. Gravity is one thing that we can't see and which we don't understand. It's the least __________ of all the four ___________ forces, and the weakest. And nobody really knows what it is or why it's there.

Solution


  1. understood
  2. fundamental
  3. dickens
  4. invisibility
  5. photograph
  6. flourish
  7. horse

Original Text


"I've misjudged this women," thought Mr. Dickens. "Not only is she aware of her physical repulsiveness, she turns it to her advantage. A photo is not enough." So he went out and bought a plastic frame to put the photograph in. And on the photograph, he wrote with a flourish, "To Horse Face, with love from Geoffrey Dickens, M.P." After it had been sent off, his secretary said to him, "Did you get that letter from the woman at the fete? I wrote Horse Face on her, so you'd remember who she was." (Laughter)

I bet he thought he wished he was invisible, don't you? (Laughter)

So, one of the interesting things about invisibility is that things that we can't see we also can't understand. Gravity is one thing that we can't see and which we don't understand. It's the least understood of all the four fundamental forces, and the weakest. And nobody really knows what it is or why it's there.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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radio waves 4
horse face 2
sufi masters 2
created artificial 2
human genome 2


Important Words


  1. advantage
  2. aware
  3. bet
  4. bought
  5. dickens
  6. face
  7. fete
  8. flourish
  9. forces
  10. frame
  11. fundamental
  12. geoffrey
  13. gravity
  14. horse
  15. interesting
  16. invisibility
  17. invisible
  18. laughter
  19. letter
  20. love
  21. misjudged
  22. photo
  23. photograph
  24. physical
  25. plastic
  26. put
  27. remember
  28. repulsiveness
  29. secretary
  30. thought
  31. turns
  32. understand
  33. understood
  34. weakest
  35. wished
  36. woman
  37. women
  38. wrote