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From the Ted Talk by adrienne maree brown and Baratunde Thurston: How to imagine a better future for democracy

Unscramble the Blue Letters


BT: There's an expansion possible here. And, you know, the practice of citizening and belonging and mtuual care for each other, I think our muscles have atrophied a bit, but it's never too late.

AMB: I'm like, wait, practices? I wrote that down.

(lhetuagr)

BT: How do we continue to practice?

AMB: OK, I have one main thought I'll come to, OK?

BT: I like the countdown.

AMB: So I think it's all wrapped up in this ball of care and repair. I think really what it is, is care and repair. If we are in a practice where, when things go awry, we know we can repair them, and we think about rpiaer and we have modaietin and we have facilitators who are like, "Oh, my job is to bring some repair into the circumstance."

Open Cloze


BT: There's an expansion possible here. And, you know, the practice of citizening and belonging and ______ care for each other, I think our muscles have atrophied a bit, but it's never too late.

AMB: I'm like, wait, practices? I wrote that down.

(________)

BT: How do we continue to practice?

AMB: OK, I have one main thought I'll come to, OK?

BT: I like the countdown.

AMB: So I think it's all wrapped up in this ball of care and repair. I think really what it is, is care and repair. If we are in a practice where, when things go awry, we know we can repair them, and we think about ______ and we have _________ and we have facilitators who are like, "Oh, my job is to bring some repair into the circumstance."

Solution


  1. mediation
  2. laughter
  3. repair
  4. mutual

Original Text


BT: There's an expansion possible here. And, you know, the practice of citizening and belonging and mutual care for each other, I think our muscles have atrophied a bit, but it's never too late.

AMB: I'm like, wait, practices? I wrote that down.

(Laughter)

BT: How do we continue to practice?

AMB: OK, I have one main thought I'll come to, OK?

BT: I like the countdown.

AMB: So I think it's all wrapped up in this ball of care and repair. I think really what it is, is care and repair. If we are in a practice where, when things go awry, we know we can repair them, and we think about repair and we have mediation and we have facilitators who are like, "Oh, my job is to bring some repair into the circumstance."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

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Important Words


  1. atrophied
  2. awry
  3. ball
  4. belonging
  5. bit
  6. bring
  7. care
  8. circumstance
  9. citizening
  10. continue
  11. countdown
  12. expansion
  13. facilitators
  14. job
  15. late
  16. laughter
  17. main
  18. mediation
  19. muscles
  20. mutual
  21. practice
  22. practices
  23. repair
  24. thought
  25. wait
  26. wrapped
  27. wrote