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English Vocab by Victorprep

Episode 11

English Vocab by Victorprep

Sam Fold

English, Ets, Words, Test, Vocabulary, Gre, Word, Prep, Learning, Vocab, Education, Language Learning, Graduate, Sat, Language, Self-improvement

51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2014

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The words for today are: Archaic, Innocuous, Subpoena, Quibble.

VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helping you prepare for your standardized tests!

This podcast isn't only intended for those studying for the GRE or SAT, but also for people who enjoy learning, and especially those who want to improve their English skills.

I run the podcast for fun and because I want to help people out there studying for tests or simply learning English.

If you have comments or questions and suggestions, please contact me at @SamFold or send me an email at [email protected].

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello there and welcome to the Victor Prep vocab podcast episode 11.

0:07.0

I hope that the test went well and wasn't too much of a shock and that you felt well prepared.

0:12.0

Like I said during the test episode, don't take it too

0:16.1

seriously, use it to inform your revision and your studying and let's cover the previous episodes words.

0:25.0

Those were coagulate,

0:29.0

vernal, rakondite, and quiescent. These were episode 10's words.

0:37.0

Coagulate means to change from a fluid into a thickened mess, often a thicker fluid or even a solid. It can mean curdle and congeal.

0:49.2

Vernal means related to spring or appearing in spring. It can even mean spring-like, meaning

0:59.1

youthful. Recondite, that means dealing with difficult or esoteric subject matter, little known or beyond ordinary knowledge.

1:12.0

Queercent, that means being at rest, being quiet, still, motionless.

1:22.2

Before we get started with the new words, just wanted to say,

1:25.0

sorry, I haven't been super frequent with updates recently.

1:30.0

My work, my day job has been kind of crazy.

1:34.0

So I've been working a few late nights,

1:36.4

and sometimes at weekends too.

1:38.3

So it means I haven't had as much time for recording podcasts.

1:42.4

So sorry about that. I am going to try and get a few recorded as

1:47.6

backups for the future when I have a quiet period, so I have some for those times when I can't record a

1:54.3

podcast. That said let's get started with some new words. Our first word is archaic, archaic, that's spelled ARC-A-I-C-A-I-C-R-A-C-A-C-A-I-C-A-I-C-A-K-I-K-I-K-I-K-K-I-K-K-I-K-K-Kyic. Now that word archaic means very old or old-fashioned. An example sentence would be

2:20.0

prisons are run on archaic methods.

2:24.0

Archaic can also mean no longer in everyday use,

2:28.0

but sometimes used to give an old-fashioned flavor.

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