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From the Ted Talk by David Gallo: Life in the deep oceans

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Here's a jelly. It's one of my favorites, because it's got all sorts of working parts. This turns out to be the longest creature in the oceans. It gets up to about 150 feet long. But see all those different wkroing things? I love that kind of stuff. It's got these fishing lures on the bottom. They're going up and down. It's got tcaenelts dannilgg, sliwnrig around like that. It's a colonial animal. These are all iuiddvainl animals banding together to make this one creature. And it's got these jet thrusters up in front that it'll use in a monmet, and a little light. If you take all the big fish and schooling fish and all that, put them on one side of the scale, put all the jelly-type of animals on the other side, those guys win hdans down.

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Here's a jelly. It's one of my favorites, because it's got all sorts of working parts. This turns out to be the longest creature in the oceans. It gets up to about 150 feet long. But see all those different _______ things? I love that kind of stuff. It's got these fishing lures on the bottom. They're going up and down. It's got _________ ________, ________ around like that. It's a colonial animal. These are all __________ animals banding together to make this one creature. And it's got these jet thrusters up in front that it'll use in a ______, and a little light. If you take all the big fish and schooling fish and all that, put them on one side of the scale, put all the jelly-type of animals on the other side, those guys win _____ down.

Solution


  1. tentacles
  2. swirling
  3. working
  4. dangling
  5. moment
  6. individual
  7. hands

Original Text


Here's a jelly. It's one of my favorites, because it's got all sorts of working parts. This turns out to be the longest creature in the oceans. It gets up to about 150 feet long. But see all those different working things? I love that kind of stuff. It's got these fishing lures on the bottom. They're going up and down. It's got tentacles dangling, swirling around like that. It's a colonial animal. These are all individual animals banding together to make this one creature. And it's got these jet thrusters up in front that it'll use in a moment, and a little light. If you take all the big fish and schooling fish and all that, put them on one side of the scale, put all the jelly-type of animals on the other side, those guys win hands down.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. animal
  2. animals
  3. banding
  4. big
  5. bottom
  6. colonial
  7. creature
  8. dangling
  9. favorites
  10. feet
  11. fish
  12. fishing
  13. front
  14. guys
  15. hands
  16. individual
  17. jelly
  18. jet
  19. kind
  20. light
  21. long
  22. longest
  23. love
  24. lures
  25. moment
  26. oceans
  27. parts
  28. put
  29. scale
  30. schooling
  31. side
  32. sorts
  33. stuff
  34. swirling
  35. tentacles
  36. thrusters
  37. turns
  38. win
  39. working