Hey guys this is Sam Fold and this is episode 94 of the Victor Prep

vocab podcast let's start off with a quick review from our last episode which

was 93 and we had four words credulous condone

accretion and hapless credulous that means showing two great readiness to believe things, to be gullible, to be naive, to be too trusting.

Condone. To condone,

to condone means to accept and allow behavior that is normally considered wrong to continue.

So it means to approve or sanction something with reluctance. Accretion, that is the slow process of something growing or getting bigger, usually by the

gradual accumulation of additional layers or matter. In astronomy that's also the coming together of bits of

matter and gas and particles under gravity to form larger planets and so on.

And our last word from last time was hapless.

Hapless and that means unfortunate or unlucky,

maybe even jinxed.

I'm going to start off today's episode with another quote from one of my favorite writers, which is Hermann

Hesser, and this quote is from one of his books called Demian. By the way all of his books are amazing.

I think I've read most of them except the Glass Bede game, but in general, pick up any book by Hermann Hesse, they're all amazing.

I have no right to call myself one who knows.

I was one who seeks and I still am but I no longer seek in the stars or in books.

I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me.

My story isn't pleasant. It's not sweet and

harmonious like the invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.

All right then, that was our quote, which was again Hermann Hesser from the book

Demian which is amazing and let's get started now with our first word for

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