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🗓️ 15 November 2014
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The words for today are: Vernal, Recondite, Quiescent, Coagulate.
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0:00.0 | Hi there, this is Sam and this is the 10th episode of the Victor Prep Vocal Podcast. |
0:06.0 | We're going to be doing another four words this episode, and for the next episode, which technically will be episode 11, we're going to do a test of the first 10 episodes that's 40 words and then episode 12 will be back to another 4 words per episode until our next test. |
0:25.0 | I figured 40 words per test seems reasonable and will be a good way of testing yourself |
0:31.0 | to see if you're really remembering the words. So as always we're going to be covering the previous episode's words. That'll be episode 9. The words were monastic, pervade, dyspeptic, and assuage. |
0:51.0 | Do you remember those words? Well, let's go over them. Monastic, that means related to monks or nuns or other people living under a religious vow. So that means living in a secluded or austere manner |
1:08.1 | of living, a poor way of living, someone living without all the niceties of modern life like electricity or nice clothes or |
1:18.9 | rich food pervade that means to spread throughout all of something else, to diffuse, to fill a smell |
1:29.1 | pervading through a house. |
1:32.2 | Dispeptic, that means having indigestion and consequently being irritable |
1:39.2 | or depressed or moody. It can be gloomy, pessimistic, but mostly irritable. A swage, that means to make |
1:50.0 | less severe, to ease, to relieve, if you're feeling bad or you're in pain and you take |
1:56.8 | some sort of painkiller that painkiller is going to assuage your pain. |
2:01.9 | Those were our four words from the last time. Now let's do our next set of words. Our first |
2:08.8 | word is coagulate. Coagulate. that is COA GU L A T E, coagulate. So that means to change from a fluid into something thicker. If you imagine having some milk and slowly letting that milk turn into cream, it's getting thicker, it's becoming more like a solid that is |
2:34.8 | coagulating. Another really classic example of coagulation is blood. If you cut |
2:40.7 | yourself the blood at first flows very freely, try saying that quickly. |
2:47.5 | But then as more blood flows, it becomes thicker, it becomes darker, it starts to clot, the blood is coagulating. Some synonyms for |
2:57.0 | coagulate are clot, set, solidify, thicken. My example sentence was, |
3:06.0 | After running, falling, and cutting my leg in the playground, |
3:10.0 | I sat and watched the blood slowly coagulate as my friends stood around with gaping mouths. Our second word is vernal, vernal, that's V-E-R-N-N-T-E-N-T-E-N-T-E-E-N-T-A-L-Vernal. Now, Vernal means pertaining to spring or appearing in spring or spring-like. |
3:36.2 | Perhaps if you imagine spring you think |
3:39.2 | youthful, fresh, new. So vernal can mean, can mean all those things. If you think of a person who is extremely |
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