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From the Ted Talk by Shane Koyczan: To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful

Unscramble the Blue Letters


But I want to tell them that all of this is just derbis left over when we finally decide to smash all the things we thought we used to be, and if you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, satre a little longer, because there's something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit. You built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself, "They were wrong." Because maybe you didn't beolng to a group or a clique. Maybe they decided to pick you last for basketball or everything. Maybe you used to bnrig bruises and broken teteh to show-and-tell, but never told, because how can you hold your ground if everyone around you wants to bury you beneath it? You have to believe that they were wrong. They have to be wrong. Why else would we still be here?

Open Cloze


But I want to tell them that all of this is just ______ left over when we finally decide to smash all the things we thought we used to be, and if you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, _____ a little longer, because there's something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit. You built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself, "They were wrong." Because maybe you didn't ______ to a group or a clique. Maybe they decided to pick you last for basketball or everything. Maybe you used to _____ bruises and broken _____ to show-and-tell, but never told, because how can you hold your ground if everyone around you wants to bury you beneath it? You have to believe that they were wrong. They have to be wrong. Why else would we still be here?

Solution


  1. belong
  2. bring
  3. debris
  4. stare
  5. teeth

Original Text


But I want to tell them that all of this is just debris left over when we finally decide to smash all the things we thought we used to be, and if you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror, look a little closer, stare a little longer, because there's something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit. You built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself, "They were wrong." Because maybe you didn't belong to a group or a clique. Maybe they decided to pick you last for basketball or everything. Maybe you used to bring bruises and broken teeth to show-and-tell, but never told, because how can you hold your ground if everyone around you wants to bury you beneath it? You have to believe that they were wrong. They have to be wrong. Why else would we still be here?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
pork chops 3
called names 2
trash compactor 2
karate chops 2


Important Words


  1. basketball
  2. beautiful
  3. belong
  4. beneath
  5. bring
  6. broken
  7. bruises
  8. built
  9. bury
  10. cast
  11. clique
  12. closer
  13. debris
  14. decide
  15. decided
  16. finally
  17. ground
  18. group
  19. heart
  20. hold
  21. left
  22. longer
  23. mirror
  24. pick
  25. quit
  26. signed
  27. smash
  28. stare
  29. teeth
  30. thought
  31. told
  32. wrong