ELL HubIlya Strebulaev
Ilya Strebulaev
Episode 143
Vocabulary
permeate (verb)
- Definition:
- to spread or soak through something completely
- Example from the episode:
- “What advice do you have for people in the way that they describe the things that they’re passionate about? It just permeates from you.”
- Example sentence:
- “The excitement seemed to permeate the whole crowd.”
outlier (noun)
- Definition:
- something that is very different from all the others in a group
- Example from the episode:
- “It’s going for outliers because at the end of the day, it is outliers if successful that are going to determine our future and will make leaders very successful.”
- Example sentence:
- “That one tall building is an outlier in this neighborhood of small homes.”
hostile (adjective)
- Definition:
- unfriendly or harmful
- Example from the episode:
- “I realized that for many, many decades they’ve been facing very, I would say hostile environment where they face a lot of failures, they face a lot of uncertainty, and they developed in order to survive and succeed, a very different mental model, very different mindset of how they make decisions.”
- Example sentence:
- “Her tone was hostile during the argument.”
swing for the fences (idiom)
- Definition:
- trying very hard to succeed, even in a difficult situation
- Example from the episode:
- “I think it’s what I call swinging for the fences. It’s trying something unusual.”
- Example sentence:
- “He decided to swing for the fences and apply for the manager position.”