ELL HubSinéad Bovell
Sinéad Bovell
Episode 297
Vocabulary
conform (verb)
- Definition:
- to change how you act or think so you are like others or follow rules
- Example from the episode:
- “I think this is really smart, to think about the channel through which they're accessing the information and try to conform to those expectations.”
- Example sentence:
- “I try to conform to the class rules.”
half-life (noun)
- Definition:
- the time it takes for half of something to disappear or change
- Example from the episode:
- “And it's not that they're not important. It's just that the half-life of the average technical skill is now between 2.5 to 5 years.”
- Example sentence:
- “The medicine has a half-life of six hours.”
unprecedented (adjective)
- Definition:
- not something that has happened or been seen before
- Example from the episode:
- “And so if I'm in a room, let's say, with world leaders and we're talking about a technology that seems like it's moving really quickly and it seems so foreign and out of our control and unprecedented is a term we hear over and over.”
- Example sentence:
- “Their win was unprecedented for the school.”
meet somebody where they are (idiom)
- Definition:
- to accept and help a person based on how they feel or what they can do right now
- Example from the episode:
- “When things are too abstract and you don't bring it down, it's hard for people to connect with it. So I always try to meet people where they are.”
- Example sentence:
- “We can meet somebody where they are and offer small steps.”