ELL HubAngèle Christin
Angèle Christin
Episode 268
Vocabulary
co-construct (verb)
- Definition:
- to build or create something together with others
- Example from the episode:
- “And kind of, it's co-constructed with the audience in many ways.”
- Example sentence:
- “The teacher and students co-construct the class rules.”
tradeoff (noun)
- Definition:
- a situation where you give up one thing to get something else
- Example from the episode:
- “You can think about it as a tradeoff between the short term and the long term, right?”
- Example sentence:
- “Buying a fast car means a tradeoff with saving money.”
inflammatory (adjective)
- Definition:
- causing strong or angry feelings
- Example from the episode:
- “So in the short term, if you optimize for kind of metrics and you really push drama, conflict, inflammatory and extreme content, you're going to get spikes in the number of views and the kind of virality of your content.”
- Example sentence:
- “He avoided saying anything inflammatory during the meeting.”
thick skin (idiom)
- Definition:
- the ability to not be hurt by criticism or insults
- Example from the episode:
- “When you look at content creators and having spent six years talking with them and interviewing them, following them and kind of seeing how they work, they over time develop a very thick skin for getting harassed, bullied, insulted on social media.”
- Example sentence:
- “My brother has thick skin and laughs at jokes about him.”