Hello and welcome to the English like a native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week 12, day 1 of your English 5 a day.
The second season.
This series gives you a healthy daily dose of English vocabulary so that you can,
slowly but surely, start to feel more like yourself when communicating in English.
So let's begin as we always do with a snapshot of what's to come.
As Marcia stood before the interview panel, her posture was stiff, revealing her nervousness.
She was dreading the intense grilling she was about to face, knowing they would question her thoroughly.
Feeling like a bundle of nerves, she took a deep breath.
And began to elaborate on her previous job responsibilities.
Meanwhile, the panel members dissected every detail of her answers,
analyzing whether she was the right fit for the position.
Okay, time to dive deep into our vocabulary starting with the verb, dissect.
Dissect, dissect.
We spell this D-I-S-S-E-C-T, dissect.
To dissect something is to carefully examine or analyze something in great detail.
So here is an example sentence.
She spent hours dissecting the novel's themes for her literature essay.
So it's like really pulling something apart so you can see all the individual parts that make the whole.
Really looking at something in great detail.