79: Try to have a proclivity for being beneficent, but not for being pedantic...
English Vocab by Victorprep
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🗓️ 6 July 2017
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Summary
The words for today are: Racalcitrant, Beneficent, Proclivity, Pedantic
Quote of the day taken from Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, so I was just trying to open some boxes and managed to, while opening this box, pull my nail back, so it was basically half off my finger. And I have to say that that is one of the most painful things I've ever done. |
| 0:17.0 | Oh my God, yeah I managed to sort of glue it back to the sticky part of my finger, but yeah, now I understand why taking people's nails off is a form of torture. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, wow. So yeah it's stuck back on now and now it's just |
| 0:37.8 | hurting a lot. I don't really know what's going to happen. It might fall off I think. |
| 0:40.9 | But anyway this is episode 79 the Victor Prep |
| 0:46.6 | podcast I'm Sam and I'm just gonna quickly review the words from yesterday. |
| 0:54.3 | So we had perennial thorn amortize and supposition. |
| 0:59.6 | So perennial meaning lasting or existing for a long time or continually recurring |
| 1:07.6 | fawn to fawn to give an extremely exaggerated display a flattery or affection usually in order to gain some |
| 1:17.6 | sort of favour or advantage with someone. |
| 1:21.2 | Amortize, amortize, to gradually write off the initial cost of some asset, for example paying off a student loan by regularly putting money towards it. And we also ended with supposition, supposition, |
| 1:38.2 | and that is an uncertain belief. And for my quote of the day, I picked something fairly simple today from the American essayist |
| 1:47.0 | Ralph Waldo Emerson. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. |
| 1:57.0 | Okay then, so now let's get started with episode 79, but before we get get started I wanted to say that I've started doing |
| 2:05.9 | some live streaming on the Facebook page so basically recording my well streaming myself live so to allow for more audience |
| 2:17.3 | interaction so I'm going to try and do that on a daily basis. So basically around I would say |
| 2:25.5 | 630 to 7 p.m. P. S. T. So Pacific time. So it'll be 9 p.m. Eastern Standard time. |
| 2:32.2 | And that will be on the Facebook page so |
| 2:34.3 | Facebook.com forward slash Victor Prep learning and the good thing about that is I can |
| 2:40.5 | answer questions in real time so if you have questions you can type them into the chat and ask me and I can help |
| 2:45.8 | I'm also going to start doing some actual |
| 2:49.6 | g-I-E type questions in those in those live streams still getting the hang of the |
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