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From the Ted Talk by Becky Barker: The restorative power of medical tattoos

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I was doing work-based tiinrang, so I always had support. If I came across a situation I didn't know how to ovroemce, I had someone to help me, which mnaet that nobody ever left me with a really terrible tattoo.

(Laughter)

Which is important because as empowering as a great tattoo can be, a bad tattoo can have a really negative eecfft on someone's qtulaiy of life. If learning how to tattoo body art is like learning to drive a car, learning how to do medical tattooing on damaged skin that's scarred or may have been through raadtioin or had necrosis would be like learning to drive an Arctic lorry. Same basic skill set, but a lot more pssruere and a lot more knowledge needed. When I decided I weatnd to move into medical tattooing, I went about my lainnerg in two ways. The first, like most people that want to learn anything, I did a course. And the course I chose to do was in areola micropigmentation. This word miortgniocmpaietn is a little bit misleading. It sounds very clean, doesn't it? It sduons professional, very suit and tie. But I'm going to tell you a secret. It means tattoo.

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I was doing work-based ________, so I always had support. If I came across a situation I didn't know how to ________, I had someone to help me, which _____ that nobody ever left me with a really terrible tattoo.

(Laughter)

Which is important because as empowering as a great tattoo can be, a bad tattoo can have a really negative ______ on someone's _______ of life. If learning how to tattoo body art is like learning to drive a car, learning how to do medical tattooing on damaged skin that's scarred or may have been through _________ or had necrosis would be like learning to drive an Arctic lorry. Same basic skill set, but a lot more ________ and a lot more knowledge needed. When I decided I ______ to move into medical tattooing, I went about my ________ in two ways. The first, like most people that want to learn anything, I did a course. And the course I chose to do was in areola micropigmentation. This word _________________ is a little bit misleading. It sounds very clean, doesn't it? It ______ professional, very suit and tie. But I'm going to tell you a secret. It means tattoo.

Solution


  1. micropigmentation
  2. sounds
  3. overcome
  4. pressure
  5. quality
  6. meant
  7. radiation
  8. learning
  9. wanted
  10. effect
  11. training

Original Text


I was doing work-based training, so I always had support. If I came across a situation I didn't know how to overcome, I had someone to help me, which meant that nobody ever left me with a really terrible tattoo.

(Laughter)

Which is important because as empowering as a great tattoo can be, a bad tattoo can have a really negative effect on someone's quality of life. If learning how to tattoo body art is like learning to drive a car, learning how to do medical tattooing on damaged skin that's scarred or may have been through radiation or had necrosis would be like learning to drive an Arctic lorry. Same basic skill set, but a lot more pressure and a lot more knowledge needed. When I decided I wanted to move into medical tattooing, I went about my learning in two ways. The first, like most people that want to learn anything, I did a course. And the course I chose to do was in areola micropigmentation. This word micropigmentation is a little bit misleading. It sounds very clean, doesn't it? It sounds professional, very suit and tie. But I'm going to tell you a secret. It means tattoo.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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damaged skin 2
arctic lorry 2
standard set 2
strange pink 2
pink smudges 2
nipple innovation 2
percent admitted 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
strange pink smudges 2

Important Words


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  28. medical
  29. micropigmentation
  30. misleading
  31. move
  32. necrosis
  33. needed
  34. negative
  35. overcome
  36. people
  37. pressure
  38. professional
  39. quality
  40. radiation
  41. scarred
  42. secret
  43. set
  44. situation
  45. skill
  46. skin
  47. sounds
  48. suit
  49. support
  50. tattoo
  51. tattooing
  52. terrible
  53. tie
  54. training
  55. wanted
  56. ways
  57. word