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🗓️ 9 August 2017
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The words for today are: Wanton, Dichotomy, Aberrant, Blight.
Today's quote is taken from The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
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0:00.0 | Hello there. This is Sam Fold and this is episode 94 of the Victor Prep |
0:08.0 | vocab podcast. Let's get ourselves kicked off today with a quick review of yesterday's words and we had |
0:16.4 | apocryphal oblique |
0:18.9 | Contention and contentious and disparate. |
0:24.0 | Apocryphal, that's used when describing a story or a statement and it means of doubtful authenticity, although usually widely circulated as being true. |
0:40.0 | Oblique, oblique, that means neither parallel nor to right angle to some other line, |
0:47.1 | so it means slanting or sloping, but it's also used when describing someone's speech usually and it means indirectly stated or not straightforward. |
1:01.0 | Contention. A contention is a heated disagreement, but a contention can also be an assertion that you make. |
1:10.0 | So you may make the contention that eating more fruit and vegetable makes you healthy. |
1:18.0 | Contentious means likely to provoke disagreement, arguments, or discord. So a contentious novel would be one that |
1:28.2 | provokes argument. And our final word from yesterday was disparate. |
1:34.0 | Disparate. |
1:35.0 | And that means essentially different in kind. |
1:38.0 | And indeed it means so different that you can't really even compare the things. |
1:44.3 | All right, so on to our new episode. |
1:47.6 | So this is episode 95. |
1:49.5 | And if you guys are ever wondering when I record these podcasts, so I basically don't sleep particularly well. |
1:58.0 | So I suffer from insomnia quite often and I'm up late usually so as of right now it's 1230 and |
2:08.1 | I'm you know recording the podcast and so often I will be recording a podcast and then it's 1 a.m. and I publish it around then and then I'll go and read for a while until I fall asleep, which can be hours. |
2:24.0 | So that's a window into the life of the Insomniac Podcaster. |
2:32.0 | And to get us started today, as always I have a quote and this is my going to be my second quote from the writer Joseph Campbell who has written a number of my favorite books, including a Hero with a Thousand Faces, which is a wonderful book. |
2:47.0 | So let's do this quote. |
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