Hello guys, welcome to episode 69 of the Victor Prep Vocal Podcast.

It's Monday. I hope you all had an amazing weekend.

Let's review the words from last time. So our first word was sage. A sage is a

wise man, a thinker, someone who shows deep and profound wisdom.

Errodite, errodite, that means showing great knowledge or learning, being educated, being knowledgeable.

Perfunctory, a perfunctory action or gesture is one which is carried out with a minimum of

effort or reflection. And Senecure. A Senecure is a position or job requiring little or no work but usually giving the holder great status

or financial benefits.

Okay then so those were the words and last time. Now to get us started for our new episode and a new week, I thought we'd do an Oscar Wilde quote.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist. That is all.

So our first word is Ersetz. Ersetz. Ersetz is spelled Ersearsetz or Z. S-A-T-Z, and it's an adjective and something that is er-sats and

ersats is usually used to describe a product or some substance and if something is Ursat it basically means it's

artificial or a substitute and usually it implies an inferior substitute for something else.

So if you have Ursat's sugar in your tea or coffee, it means it's a substitute for sugar. And again there's this

implication that it's an inferior or worse substitute for the actual thing.

So Ersatat Coca-Cola would be a replacement version of Coca-Cola that's worse than actual Coca-Cola.

Synonyms of Erz are substitution, imitation, artificial, fake, false,

simulated. And this word, as you might expect, is not a Latin word. You can sort of tell by that TZ on the end. That doesn't really come in in Latin words so Ursats that word comes from

German and in German the word means replacement the opposite of Ursats would be genuine.

In most cases in life we want the genuine real article version of things.

We don't want the Ursats version.

Our second word is declivity, declivity, that spell D-E-C-L-I-V-I-T-Y, declivity. And a declivity, this is a noun, a declivity is simply a downward slope.

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