emulate (verb - formal)  - to copy something achieved by someone else and try to do it as well as they have. "You find that new followers emulate the followers, not the leader", tipping point (noun) - there's a change that cannot be stopped. "The earth has already passed the tipping point in terms of global warming", sit on the fence (idiom)  - to delay making a decision. "You can't sit on the fence any longer - you have to decide whose side you're on", nurture (verb) - help sth or sb to develop. "As a record company executive, his job is to nurture young talent", over-glorified (adj) / overpraised - regarded as better than it really is. "The biggest lesson is that leadership is over-glorified" ,

Vocabulary in Context - Unit 2 TED Talk

by
Print
Embed

Leaderboard

Flash cards is an open-ended template. It does not generate scores for a leaderboard.

Visual style

Options

Switch template

Continue editing: ?