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From the Ted Talk by Eric Liu: How to revive your belief in democracy

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Civic religion, like any religion, contains a sacred creed, sacred deeds and sacred rituals. My creed includes wrdos like "equal protection of the laws" and "we the people." My roll call of hallowed deeds includes abolition, women's suffrage, the civil rights movement, the Allied landing at Normandy, the fall of the Berlin Wall. And I have a new cviic ritual that I'll tell you about in a moment.

Wherever on earth you're from, you can find or make your own set of ceerd, deed and ruital. The practice of civic religion is not about worship of the state or oneecbide to a ruling party. It is about commitment to one another and our common ideals. And the sacredness of civic religion is not about divinity or the supernatural. It is about a group of unlike people speaking into being our alikeness, our gneruopss.

Open Cloze


Civic religion, like any religion, contains a sacred creed, sacred deeds and sacred rituals. My creed includes _____ like "equal protection of the laws" and "we the people." My roll call of hallowed deeds includes abolition, women's suffrage, the civil rights movement, the Allied landing at Normandy, the fall of the Berlin Wall. And I have a new _____ ritual that I'll tell you about in a moment.

Wherever on earth you're from, you can find or make your own set of _____, deed and ______. The practice of civic religion is not about worship of the state or _________ to a ruling party. It is about commitment to one another and our common ideals. And the sacredness of civic religion is not about divinity or the supernatural. It is about a group of unlike people speaking into being our alikeness, our _________.

Solution


  1. words
  2. civic
  3. ritual
  4. groupness
  5. creed
  6. obedience

Original Text


Civic religion, like any religion, contains a sacred creed, sacred deeds and sacred rituals. My creed includes words like "equal protection of the laws" and "we the people." My roll call of hallowed deeds includes abolition, women's suffrage, the civil rights movement, the Allied landing at Normandy, the fall of the Berlin Wall. And I have a new civic ritual that I'll tell you about in a moment.

Wherever on earth you're from, you can find or make your own set of creed, deed and ritual. The practice of civic religion is not about worship of the state or obedience to a ruling party. It is about commitment to one another and our common ideals. And the sacredness of civic religion is not about divinity or the supernatural. It is about a group of unlike people speaking into being our alikeness, our groupness.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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  6. civic
  7. civil
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  9. common
  10. creed
  11. deed
  12. deeds
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  14. earth
  15. fall
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  19. hallowed
  20. ideals
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  22. landing
  23. moment
  24. movement
  25. normandy
  26. obedience
  27. party
  28. people
  29. practice
  30. protection
  31. religion
  32. rights
  33. ritual
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  35. roll
  36. ruling
  37. sacred
  38. sacredness
  39. set
  40. speaking
  41. state
  42. suffrage
  43. supernatural
  44. wall
  45. words
  46. worship