ELL HubColin Fisher
Colin Fisher
Episode 241
Vocabulary
emerge (verb)
- Definition:
- to come out or appear from somewhere
- Example from the episode:
- “The kind of synergy that we talk about in group work really only emerges when we don't all think the same thing, when we don't all have the same knowledge and skills, and that we share them with one another.”
- Example sentence:
- “New ideas emerged during our class.”
peril (noun)
- Definition:
- something that is very dangerous or risky
- Example from the episode:
- “I used to teach classes on group communication and I always start by talking to my students about the benefits and perils of groups.”
- Example sentence:
- “The hikers were in peril on the snowy mountain.”
sticky (adjective)
- Definition:
- when something is hard to change or remove
- Example from the episode:
- “So group formation is such an important time in a group's life that the stuff that we do when we first get together tends to be really sticky.”
- Example sentence:
- “A sticky problem can be hard to fix.”
right off the bat (idiom)
- Definition:
- immediately, at the very beginning
- Example from the episode:
- “You got some of the really important ones right off the bat there.”
- Example sentence:
- “The team scored right off the bat.”