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Nick Epley
Episode 291
Vocabulary
stockpile (verb)
- Definition:
- to collect and save a large amount of something for future use
- Example from the episode:
- “And you can think about some of those in advance, right? You can stockpile some questions.”
- Example sentence:
- “They stockpile blankets in the closet.”
elixir (noun)
- Definition:
- a special liquid that people think can heal or make things better
- Example from the episode:
- “Perspective taking isn't quite the magical elixir for understanding that we might imagine.”
- Example sentence:
- “The story said the elixir could heal wounds.”
high-stakes (adjective)
- Definition:
- involving a lot of risk or very important results
- Example from the episode:
- “In a high-stakes situation, just ask the question you want to know the answer to.”
- Example sentence:
- “She studied hard for the high-stakes test.”
mental gymnastics (idiom)
- Definition:
- thinking that uses many clever or complicated steps to solve a problem or explain something
- Example from the episode:
- “Psychologists for decades have been studying what happens when we do this little bit of mental gymnastics to move from my perspective to yours, to try to see things from your point of view, try to understand things from your perspective, recognizing that you might see the world differently than I do.”
- Example sentence:
- “Try some mental gymnastics to see her side.”