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From the Ted Talk by George Papandreou: Imagine a European democracy without borders

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Let's start from the beginning. Let's srtat from democracy. Well, if you go back to the Ancient gekres, it was a raevoeitln, a discovery, that we had the potential, together, to be masters of our own fate, to be able to examine, to learn, to imagine, and then to design a better life. And democracy was the political innovation which protected this freedom, because we were liberated from fear so that our midns in fact, whether they be despots or dogmas, could be the protagonists. Democracy was the political innovation that allowed us to lmiit the power, whether it was of tyrants or of high priests, their natural tecendny to maximize power and wealth.

Open Cloze


Let's start from the beginning. Let's _____ from democracy. Well, if you go back to the Ancient ______, it was a __________, a discovery, that we had the potential, together, to be masters of our own fate, to be able to examine, to learn, to imagine, and then to design a better life. And democracy was the political innovation which protected this freedom, because we were liberated from fear so that our _____ in fact, whether they be despots or dogmas, could be the protagonists. Democracy was the political innovation that allowed us to _____ the power, whether it was of tyrants or of high priests, their natural ________ to maximize power and wealth.

Solution


  1. greeks
  2. tendency
  3. limit
  4. revelation
  5. minds
  6. start

Original Text


Let's start from the beginning. Let's start from democracy. Well, if you go back to the Ancient Greeks, it was a revelation, a discovery, that we had the potential, together, to be masters of our own fate, to be able to examine, to learn, to imagine, and then to design a better life. And democracy was the political innovation which protected this freedom, because we were liberated from fear so that our minds in fact, whether they be despots or dogmas, could be the protagonists. Democracy was the political innovation that allowed us to limit the power, whether it was of tyrants or of high priests, their natural tendency to maximize power and wealth.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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collocation frequency
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prime minister 2
restore confidence 2
public affairs 2
citizen juries 2
european citizens 2


Important Words


  1. allowed
  2. ancient
  3. beginning
  4. democracy
  5. design
  6. despots
  7. discovery
  8. dogmas
  9. examine
  10. fact
  11. fate
  12. fear
  13. freedom
  14. greeks
  15. high
  16. imagine
  17. innovation
  18. learn
  19. liberated
  20. life
  21. limit
  22. masters
  23. maximize
  24. minds
  25. natural
  26. political
  27. potential
  28. power
  29. priests
  30. protagonists
  31. protected
  32. revelation
  33. start
  34. tendency
  35. tyrants
  36. wealth