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Martin Reeves
Episode 206
Vocabulary
mobilize (verb)
- Definition:
- to organize people or resources to work together for a common goal
- Example from the episode:
- “How can leaders craft compelling strategic stories that not only inform, but also inspire and mobilize their organizations?”
- Example sentence:
- “The teacher mobilized her class to clean the classroom.”
inquiry (noun)
- Definition:
- a process of asking questions to get more information
- Example from the episode:
- “So they can be part of an inquiry.”
- Example sentence:
- “The librarian answered our inquiry about the library books.”
improbable (adjective)
- Definition:
- not likely to happen or be true
- Example from the episode:
- “It sounds improbable, right?”
- Example sentence:
- “The idea of a snow day in summer seems improbable.”
take liberty (idiom)
- Definition:
- to act without asking for permission first
- Example from the episode:
- “And then I took a little liberty here, but this notion of contaminate, in other words, spread the information around, codify as step five, so that you actually can make these repeatable and then finally continue the effort.”
- Example sentence:
- “She took liberty to change the design of her homework.”