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From the Ted Talk by Arunachalam Muruganantham: How I started a sanitary napkin revolution!

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So I tried to do a slmal good thing for my wife. It makes me to stand here, the fame, the meony I got out of it. So what I did, I'd gone back to my early marriage days. What you did in the early marriage days, you tried to impress your wife. I did the same. On that occasion, I found my wife carrying something like this. I saw. "What is that?" I asked. My wife replied, "None of your business." Then, being her husband, I ran behind her and saw she had a nasty rag cloth. I don't even use that cloth to clean my two-wheeler. Then I uoestrndod this — adapting that unhygienic moethd to mangae her period days.

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So I tried to do a _____ good thing for my wife. It makes me to stand here, the fame, the _____ I got out of it. So what I did, I'd gone back to my early marriage days. What you did in the early marriage days, you tried to impress your wife. I did the same. On that occasion, I found my wife carrying something like this. I saw. "What is that?" I asked. My wife replied, "None of your business." Then, being her husband, I ran behind her and saw she had a nasty rag cloth. I don't even use that cloth to clean my two-wheeler. Then I __________ this — adapting that unhygienic ______ to ______ her period days.

Solution


  1. understood
  2. money
  3. method
  4. manage
  5. small

Original Text


So I tried to do a small good thing for my wife. It makes me to stand here, the fame, the money I got out of it. So what I did, I'd gone back to my early marriage days. What you did in the early marriage days, you tried to impress your wife. I did the same. On that occasion, I found my wife carrying something like this. I saw. "What is that?" I asked. My wife replied, "None of your business." Then, being her husband, I ran behind her and saw she had a nasty rag cloth. I don't even use that cloth to clean my two-wheeler. Then I understood this — adapting that unhygienic method to manage her period days.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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sanitary pad 11
sanitary pads 3
medical college 3
college girls 3
rural woman 3
early marriage 2
family milk 2
local sanitary 2
women volunteers 2
seventh year 2
school dropout 2

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collocation frequency
medical college girls 3
local sanitary pad 2

Important Words


  1. adapting
  2. asked
  3. business
  4. carrying
  5. clean
  6. cloth
  7. days
  8. early
  9. fame
  10. good
  11. husband
  12. impress
  13. manage
  14. marriage
  15. method
  16. money
  17. nasty
  18. occasion
  19. period
  20. rag
  21. ran
  22. replied
  23. small
  24. stand
  25. understood
  26. unhygienic
  27. wife