Assimilate in a sentence: meaning and pronunciation in #movie #film #movieclips #vocabulary

assimilate meaning and pronunciation — verb: To learn so that it is fully understood and can be used. Heard in four real movie scenes.

How to pronounce assimilate: uh-SIM-uh-layt — /əˈsɪməˌleɪt/

Assimilate covers two related ideas — absorbing information mentally, as in Being There's "so much to assimilate," and blending into a group or society, as in Sixteen Candles' "help him assimilate." One clip pushes it toward a darker, forced sense of absorption, which is worth noting but not the exam meaning. Choose the sense your sentence supports before using it in writing.

Being There (1979): "Well, I find there's so much to assimilate, it can become quite muddling at times." Also Sixteen Candles, Star Trek: First Contact and The Man Who Fell to Earth.

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