ELL HubDorie Clark
Dorie Clark
Episode 118
Vocabulary
harness (verb)
- Definition:
- to use something available for a particular purpose
- Example from the episode:
- “But you’ve just helped give me, because I suffer from this significantly in my life, you can actually harness that.”
- Example sentence:
- “We can harness the wind’s power to generate electricity.”
reputation (noun)
- Definition:
- what others think or say about a person, a company, or a thing based on their past actions or qualities
- Example from the episode:
- “That’s really all it is, because having a good reputation generally is a useful thing in business and in life.”
- Example sentence:
- “His rude behavior damaged his reputation.”
mindful (adjective)
- Definition:
- paying careful attention to something or thinking about others and their feelings
- Example from the episode:
- “And to your point, Matt, about leverage, one of the things that I always like to be mindful of is it’s hard out there.”
- Example sentence:
- “She’s mindful about spending her savings wisely.”
boil down (idiom)
- Definition:
- to simplify something to its most basic parts
- Example from the episode:
- “And I like to actually just kind of boil it down and make it simple.”
- Example sentence:
- “Their argument boils down to a simple misunderstanding.”