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From the Ted Talk by Roz Savage: Why I'm rowing across the Pacific

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But, as I was approaching the end of my water reserves, luckily, our courses were converging. They were running out of food; I was rninnug out of waetr. So we liaised by satellite phone and arargend to meet up. And it took about a week for us to actually gradually converge. I was doing a pathetically slow speed of about 1.3 knots, and they were doing only marginally less pathetic speed of about 1.4: it was like two snails in a mating dance. But, eaventully, we did manage to meet up and Joel hopped oraorvbed, caught us a buetauifl, big mahi-mahi, which was the best food I'd had in, ooh, at least three months.

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But, as I was approaching the end of my water reserves, luckily, our courses were converging. They were running out of food; I was _______ out of _____. So we liaised by satellite phone and ________ to meet up. And it took about a week for us to actually gradually converge. I was doing a pathetically slow speed of about 1.3 knots, and they were doing only marginally less pathetic speed of about 1.4: it was like two snails in a mating dance. But, __________, we did manage to meet up and Joel hopped _________, caught us a _________, big mahi-mahi, which was the best food I'd had in, ooh, at least three months.

Solution


  1. beautiful
  2. eventually
  3. arranged
  4. running
  5. overboard
  6. water

Original Text


But, as I was approaching the end of my water reserves, luckily, our courses were converging. They were running out of food; I was running out of water. So we liaised by satellite phone and arranged to meet up. And it took about a week for us to actually gradually converge. I was doing a pathetically slow speed of about 1.3 knots, and they were doing only marginally less pathetic speed of about 1.4: it was like two snails in a mating dance. But, eventually, we did manage to meet up and Joel hopped overboard, caught us a beautiful, big mahi-mahi, which was the best food I'd had in, ooh, at least three months.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. approaching
  2. arranged
  3. beautiful
  4. big
  5. caught
  6. converge
  7. converging
  8. courses
  9. dance
  10. eventually
  11. food
  12. gradually
  13. hopped
  14. joel
  15. knots
  16. liaised
  17. luckily
  18. manage
  19. marginally
  20. mating
  21. meet
  22. months
  23. ooh
  24. overboard
  25. pathetic
  26. pathetically
  27. phone
  28. reserves
  29. running
  30. satellite
  31. slow
  32. snails
  33. speed
  34. water
  35. week