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Carmen Simon
Vocabulary
prompt (verb)
- Definition:
- to make someone do or say something by asking or giving a hint
- Example from the episode:
- “Are you looking on your own accord, either outside or inside, or is someone prompting you to look?”
- Example sentence:
- “The sign prompts drivers to slow down.”
stimulus (noun)
- Definition:
- something that makes a person, animal, or thing react or do something.
- Example from the episode:
- “From that perspective, you can use some physical properties of a stimulus.”
- Example sentence:
- “The teacher used a picture as a stimulus for discussion.”
inevitable (adjective)
- Definition:
- certain to happen and impossible to avoid
- Example from the episode:
- “To combat the inevitable forgetting of your content that your audience will experience, you need to define your 10% message.”
- Example sentence:
- “Change is inevitable in life.”
on the surface (idiom)
- Definition:
- used to say that something seems true at first but may be different when you look deeper
- Example from the episode:
- “That's a strong question and a very deep one, because to aspire at creating memory traces in somebody else's brain, it sounds very good and noble on the surface.”
- Example sentence:
- “On the surface, he seemed happy.”