ELL HubTiger Sisters
Tiger Sisters
Vocabulary
bootstrap (verb)
- Definition:
- to start and build a project or business using your own money, work, and resources without outside help
- Example from the episode:
- “We said, we are gonna bootstrap this. We said, we are going to, no matter what, spend 18 months on this and just see where it goes.”
- Example sentence:
- “He bootstrapped the project instead of asking for money.”
candor (noun)
- Definition:
- the quality of being honest and direct when you speak
- Example from the episode:
- “They blend the strategic rigor of the boardroom with the candor of sisterly love.”
- Example sentence:
- “The boss liked her candor about the problem.”
bashful (adjective)
- Definition:
- shy and uncomfortable in front of other people
- Example from the episode:
- “And that's something that we didn't really say out loud and start telling people until recently because we were quite sort of bashful about how audacious that is.”
- Example sentence:
- “She gave a bashful smile and looked down.”
count somebody out (idiom)
- Definition:
- to decide someone will not win or to leave them out of a plan or chance
- Example from the episode:
- “The other tenet that I lived my life by is that don't ever like count yourself out.”
- Example sentence:
- “Please do not count your friends out before they try.”