Hi there, this is Sam and this is the 10th episode of the Victor Prep Vocal Podcast.

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.

I figured 40 words per test seems reasonable and will be a good way of testing yourself

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.

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

of living, a poor way of living, someone living without all the niceties of modern life like electricity or nice clothes or

rich food pervade that means to spread throughout all of something else, to diffuse, to fill a smell

pervading through a house.

Dispeptic, that means having indigestion and consequently being irritable

or depressed or moody. It can be gloomy, pessimistic, but mostly irritable. A swage, that means to make

less severe, to ease, to relieve, if you're feeling bad or you're in pain and you take

some sort of painkiller that painkiller is going to assuage your pain.

Those were our four words from the last time. Now let's do our next set of words. Our first

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

coagulating. Another really classic example of coagulation is blood. If you cut

yourself the blood at first flows very freely, try saying that quickly.

But then as more blood flows, it becomes thicker, it becomes darker, it starts to clot, the blood is coagulating. Some synonyms for

coagulate are clot, set, solidify, thicken. My example sentence was,

After running, falling, and cutting my leg in the playground,

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.

Perhaps if you imagine spring you think

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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