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From the Ted Talk by Bari Weiss: Courage, the most important virtue

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

I believe that adults should make pertty much any decision they want about their bdioes, but that children should not. I think the SAT is an imperfect but useful tool. I think defunding the police is a very bad idea. And that linvig in a safe neighborhood is among the tsruet forms of privilege. I think COVID probably came from a lab, and that, in retrospect, locking kids out of shocol for two years was a big mistake. I think we should hire people based on their merit, but cast as wide a net as possible. I don't want to eat bugs, nor do I want to drink water full of microplastics, and I don't think there's anything coded right or left about either of those things. I believe that equality of opportunity and not equality of oocumte is the true measure of fnriases. I am repelled by ideologies that insist that our immutable cacsrttieacrihs are more iprtoamnt than our character. I don't like riots, I don't like mobs, and I hate lies. And I love America for all of its flaws. I believe, in part because Americans are free to debate those flaws and to strive for a more perfect uionn, that it really is the last best hope on ertah.

Open Cloze


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I believe that adults should make ______ much any decision they want about their ______, but that children should not. I think the SAT is an imperfect but useful tool. I think defunding the police is a very bad idea. And that ______ in a safe neighborhood is among the ______ forms of privilege. I think COVID probably came from a lab, and that, in retrospect, locking kids out of ______ for two years was a big mistake. I think we should hire people based on their merit, but cast as wide a net as possible. I don't want to eat bugs, nor do I want to drink water full of microplastics, and I don't think there's anything coded right or left about either of those things. I believe that equality of opportunity and not equality of _______ is the true measure of ________. I am repelled by ideologies that insist that our immutable _______________ are more _________ than our character. I don't like riots, I don't like mobs, and I hate lies. And I love America for all of its flaws. I believe, in part because Americans are free to debate those flaws and to strive for a more perfect _____, that it really is the last best hope on _____.

Solution


  1. school
  2. characteristics
  3. earth
  4. truest
  5. outcome
  6. fairness
  7. pretty
  8. living
  9. important
  10. union
  11. bodies

Original Text


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I believe that adults should make pretty much any decision they want about their bodies, but that children should not. I think the SAT is an imperfect but useful tool. I think defunding the police is a very bad idea. And that living in a safe neighborhood is among the truest forms of privilege. I think COVID probably came from a lab, and that, in retrospect, locking kids out of school for two years was a big mistake. I think we should hire people based on their merit, but cast as wide a net as possible. I don't want to eat bugs, nor do I want to drink water full of microplastics, and I don't think there's anything coded right or left about either of those things. I believe that equality of opportunity and not equality of outcome is the true measure of fairness. I am repelled by ideologies that insist that our immutable characteristics are more important than our character. I don't like riots, I don't like mobs, and I hate lies. And I love America for all of its flaws. I believe, in part because Americans are free to debate those flaws and to strive for a more perfect union, that it really is the last best hope on Earth.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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  46. microplastics
  47. mistake
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  70. water
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