Hi there lovely listeners this is Samfold and this is episode 93 the

Victor Prep vocab podcast and it's a Friday which is excellent and before we get started with anything else let's do our review from yesterday

so we had secrete plucky autonomous and sanction

secrete means autonomous and that's usually used to secret means to produce or discharge a substance often a liquid and that's usually used to refer to a cell or a gland or organ so it's more

of a technical word used for plants or animals. Plicky, that means showing courage in the face of difficulties

being bold, daring or

autonomous that means being self-ruled or having self-government

could also mean in general something that is independent or free that can do stuff by

itself and our final word yesterday was sanction is, we had some issues with that word yesterday because

there's a few different meanings, but basically a sanction is either a penalty for

disobeying a law or rule and the act of giving that sort of penalty.

So a sanction or to be sanctioned and you could also a sanction which is official permission or approval for an action

and you can be you can have a sanction or be sanctioned in that sense too. So your treatment may be sanctioned

by the Food and Drug Administration, which means your treatment was approved.

Okay, so those were our words from yesterday,

and before we get started with our new words,

I'm going to read a poem.

This poem is by Mary Elizabeth Fry and it's called

Do not stand at my grave and weep. Do not stand at my grave and weep. I am not there. I do not sleep. I am the thousand

winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlights on

ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning's hush,

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