ELL HubDan Heath Rethinks
Dan Heath Rethinks
Vocabulary
dodge (verb)
- Definition:
- to move quickly to one side or away from something so you do not get hit or involved
- Example from the episode:
- “They're having people over-order because they want to dodge this chaos of the receiving area.”
- Example sentence:
- “He tried to dodge the question from the teacher.”
vehicle (noun)
- Definition:
- a way or method used to share ideas, feelings, or information
- Example from the episode:
- “And I think that's one of the reasons why stories are such profound vehicles for communication.”
- Example sentence:
- “This poem is a vehicle for hope.”
dry (adjective)
- Definition:
- not interesting or exciting; plain and boring
- Example from the episode:
- “I love how you have taken what is a very dry topic of systems and systems change and really found two key ideas, this notion of motivation and progress, very psychological concepts that we can apply to all the systems we find.”
- Example sentence:
- “The lecture was dry, so many students yawned.”
the heart of something (idiom)
- Definition:
- the most important or central part of something
- Example from the episode:
- “It is the heart of what I do and what takes the most time out of everything I work on as a writer.”
- Example sentence:
- “Trust is the heart of a strong team.”