87: We're from Earth, but ET was an extraterrestrial!

English Vocab by Victorprep

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🗓️ 19 July 2017

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Summary

The words for today are: Terrestrial, Canard, Warranted, Amulet.

Today's quote is from Seneca, the Roman philosopher, author of "Letters From a Stoic" and "On the Shortness of Life"

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0:00.0	Hello there and happy Wednesday you guys this is Sam Fold and this is episode 87 of the
0:07.4	Victor Prep vocab podcast we are rapidly approaching a hundred episodes that's going to be sort of exciting.
0:15.3	Maybe I'll buy some illegal fireworks and set them off the roof from my apartment building.
0:20.0	And then get arrested probably.
0:23.0	Yes.
0:25.0	Um, episode, yesterday's episode was 86, so let's review the words we learned there.
0:32.0	So we had Connoisseur. Let's review the words we learned there.
0:32.7	So we had Conocer, Droll, Incoate, and Refractory.
0:39.0	A Conocer is an expert judge in matters of taste, and it could be to do with taste in music or taste in
0:48.6	food or wine or anything else.
0:51.9	Droll. Droll, that means curious or unusual and in such a way that provokes amusement.
1:00.0	So if someone has an odd way about them, which is funny or amusing, you could say their
1:05.4	drawl.
1:06.4	Incorate.
1:10.2	That means just begun, so not fully formed or developed, rudimentary.
1:16.0	And our final word from yesterday was refractory.
1:21.0	Refractory, that means stubborn or unmanageable like a refractory pony and if it's
1:29.2	not an animal or a person it could be in general something that's just resistant to a process or resistant to a stimulus.
1:40.0	So for example an illness, a refractory illness it's it's not responding to treatment.
1:48.0	So I'm going to start off episode 87 with a quote from Seneca. He was a Roman
1:54.5	philosopher and he's quite famous for being a Stoic philosopher and so one of the
2:00.6	books I have from him is called Letters from Stoic, and here's a quote from Seneca.
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