Vocabulary for

Dr. Cal Newport’s

TED Talk
 Millennial

A term for people born

between 1981-1996
Social Media
 Hermit
• Noun – a person who lives alone, far away from
society
 Social Stance
• A person’s opinion on society, or one particular social
issue.
 Gambling
• Using money to bet on an event with an uncertain
outcome.
 Nonsense
• Something that is not true or of little value.
 Addictive
• Adj – causing a strong need to do something again
and again, and hard to stop
 Canary in the Coalmine
• An idiom meaning a test or warning for something
potentially bad.
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