ELL HubStanley McChrystal
Stanley McChrystal
Episode 234
Vocabulary
affect (verb)
- Definition:
- to cause a change in something or someone.
- Example from the episode:
- “So it's really about people, process, and tools are the ways that you actually affect that change.”
- Example sentence:
- “A smile can affect someone's day.”
silo (noun)
- Definition:
- a part of an organization that keeps information to itself.
- Example from the episode:
- “The first thing about sharing information that I found later in my military career is we had natural silos vertically, and then we also had the hierarchy creates other boundaries for the flow of information.”
- Example sentence:
- “We try to share so no one works in a silo.”
omnipresent (adjective)
- Definition:
- present everywhere or very common.
- Example from the episode:
- “And so nowadays with information technology as omnipresent as it is, we can usually reach everybody almost at any time.”
- Example sentence:
- “Phones are omnipresent in the city.”
drop the bombshell (idiom)
- Definition:
- to say something surprising or shocking that changes a situation.
- Example from the episode:
- “Now, the other thing, though, occasionally a leader will do that and then want to walk out of the room, drop the bombshell and want to walk out of the room.”
- Example sentence:
- “She dropped the bombshell and everyone was quiet.”