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From the Ted Talk by Daniel Alexander Jones: What to do when everything feels broken

Unscramble the Blue Letters


"Well, one of these numbers is gonna hit, little girl. You got a quarter for your uncle Free — " Now some of y'all have that relative. But I knew right then and there I had to do something. I jumped up and I grabbed that hmmear and I burgoht it crashing down on that pig. And Uncle faemren settrad to weep as I gaherted up all the coins. "We're not buying no ltteroy ticket, ulnce Freeman. C'mon."

We spent every last cent at the seed store. You know, the kids in my gdiranneg group? They didn't bat an eye when I had Uncle Freeman get down and put his hands in the earth again and start breaking up that soil for our seeds. And my little friend Taesha even came over and started slapping him on the back saying, "Cry it out, Uncle Freeman. Cry it out."

Open Cloze


"Well, one of these numbers is gonna hit, little girl. You got a quarter for your uncle Free — " Now some of y'all have that relative. But I knew right then and there I had to do something. I jumped up and I grabbed that ______ and I _______ it crashing down on that pig. And Uncle _______ _______ to weep as I ________ up all the coins. "We're not buying no _______ ticket, _____ Freeman. C'mon."

We spent every last cent at the seed store. You know, the kids in my _________ group? They didn't bat an eye when I had Uncle Freeman get down and put his hands in the earth again and start breaking up that soil for our seeds. And my little friend Taesha even came over and started slapping him on the back saying, "Cry it out, Uncle Freeman. Cry it out."

Solution


  1. brought
  2. freeman
  3. gardening
  4. gathered
  5. lottery
  6. hammer
  7. started
  8. uncle

Original Text


"Well, one of these numbers is gonna hit, little girl. You got a quarter for your uncle Free — " Now some of y'all have that relative. But I knew right then and there I had to do something. I jumped up and I grabbed that hammer and I brought it crashing down on that pig. And Uncle Freeman started to weep as I gathered up all the coins. "We're not buying no lottery ticket, Uncle Freeman. C'mon."

We spent every last cent at the seed store. You know, the kids in my gardening group? They didn't bat an eye when I had Uncle Freeman get down and put his hands in the earth again and start breaking up that soil for our seeds. And my little friend Taesha even came over and started slapping him on the back saying, "Cry it out, Uncle Freeman. Cry it out."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
uncle freeman 10
piggy bank 3
jomama jones 2


Important Words


  1. bat
  2. breaking
  3. brought
  4. buying
  5. cent
  6. coins
  7. crashing
  8. cry
  9. earth
  10. eye
  11. free
  12. freeman
  13. friend
  14. gardening
  15. gathered
  16. girl
  17. gonna
  18. grabbed
  19. group
  20. hammer
  21. hands
  22. hit
  23. jumped
  24. kids
  25. knew
  26. lottery
  27. numbers
  28. pig
  29. put
  30. quarter
  31. relative
  32. seed
  33. seeds
  34. slapping
  35. soil
  36. spent
  37. start
  38. started
  39. store
  40. taesha
  41. ticket
  42. uncle
  43. weep