Question

audition Auditions for Broadway shows attract so many hopeful unknown performers that everyone in the business calls them “cattle calls.” ɑˈdɪʃən

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A trial performance to evaluate a performer's skills. Most stars are discovered at auditions, where a number of candidates read the same part and the director chooses. Lana Turner famously skipped the audition process and was instead discovered by an agent sipping a soda in a Sunset Boulevard café at age 16. Audition can also be a verb; so, for example, after Miss Turner gained her stardom, actors had to audition to be her leading man. But when musicians audition for a job in an orchestra, it's usually behind a screen so that the judges won't even know their sex and therefore can't do anything but listen

word	audition
definition	A trial performance to evaluate a performer's skills.
eg_sentence	Auditions for Broadway shows attract so many hopeful unknown performers that everyone in the business calls them “cattle calls.”
explanation	Most stars are discovered at auditions, where a number of candidates read the same part and the director chooses. Lana Turner famously skipped the audition process and was instead discovered by an agent sipping a soda in a Sunset Boulevard café at age 16. Audition can also be a verb; so, for example, after Miss Turner gained her stardom, actors had to audition to be her leading man. But when musicians audition for a job in an orchestra, it's usually behind a screen so that the judges won't even know their sex and therefore can't do anything but listen
IPA	ɑˈdɪʃən

Audition Discovered Turner Trial Performance Evaluate Performer's Skills