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From the Ted Talk by David Gallo: Underwater astonishments

Unscramble the Blue Letters


In the next scene, you're going to see a nice coral bottom. And you see that an octopus would sntad out very easily there if you couldn't use your camouflage, use your skin to change color and texture. Here's some algae in the freuoongrd — and an octopus. Ain't that aimazng?

Now, Roger spooked him, so he took off in a cloud of ink, and when he lands, the ooucpts says, "Oh, I've been seen. The best thing to do is to get as big as I can get." That big brown makes his eyespot very big. So, he's bluffing. Let's do it backwards. I thought he was joking when he first shoewd it to me. I thought it was all graphics. So here it is in reverse. Watch the skin color; watch the skin texture. Just an amazing animal, it can change color and texture to match the surroundings. wacth him belnd right into this algae. One, two, three.

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In the next scene, you're going to see a nice coral bottom. And you see that an octopus would _____ out very easily there if you couldn't use your camouflage, use your skin to change color and texture. Here's some algae in the __________ — and an octopus. Ain't that _______?

Now, Roger spooked him, so he took off in a cloud of ink, and when he lands, the _______ says, "Oh, I've been seen. The best thing to do is to get as big as I can get." That big brown makes his eyespot very big. So, he's bluffing. Let's do it backwards. I thought he was joking when he first ______ it to me. I thought it was all graphics. So here it is in reverse. Watch the skin color; watch the skin texture. Just an amazing animal, it can change color and texture to match the surroundings. _____ him _____ right into this algae. One, two, three.

Solution


  1. octopus
  2. showed
  3. amazing
  4. watch
  5. stand
  6. blend
  7. foreground

Original Text


In the next scene, you're going to see a nice coral bottom. And you see that an octopus would stand out very easily there if you couldn't use your camouflage, use your skin to change color and texture. Here's some algae in the foreground — and an octopus. Ain't that amazing?

Now, Roger spooked him, so he took off in a cloud of ink, and when he lands, the octopus says, "Oh, I've been seen. The best thing to do is to get as big as I can get." That big brown makes his eyespot very big. So, he's bluffing. Let's do it backwards. I thought he was joking when he first showed it to me. I thought it was all graphics. So here it is in reverse. Watch the skin color; watch the skin texture. Just an amazing animal, it can change color and texture to match the surroundings. Watch him blend right into this algae. One, two, three.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
positively amazing 3
shallow water 3
learning lots 2
change color 2


Important Words


  1. algae
  2. amazing
  3. animal
  4. big
  5. blend
  6. bluffing
  7. bottom
  8. brown
  9. camouflage
  10. change
  11. cloud
  12. color
  13. coral
  14. easily
  15. eyespot
  16. foreground
  17. graphics
  18. ink
  19. joking
  20. lands
  21. match
  22. nice
  23. octopus
  24. reverse
  25. roger
  26. scene
  27. showed
  28. skin
  29. spooked
  30. stand
  31. surroundings
  32. texture
  33. thought
  34. watch