Hi there. This is episode 12 of the Victor Prep Volkat Podcast. This is Sam. And let's go over the previous

episodes words first. Those words were archaic, innocuous, subpoena, and quibble. Archaic, that means very old or old-fashioned, can also mean something that's no longer in everyday use, but a word that sometimes

used to give an old-fashioned flavor could also mean obsolete or out of date.

Inocuous.

That means not harmful, not offensive.

It could also mean safe or innocent.

subpoena.

subpoena is a legal document ordering someone to attend court.

Quibble, that is a small objection, a slight criticism.

Can also mean to find faults with something or to complain about. So if someone is impersonating a

celebrity and you find a small objection to their impersonation that could be called a quibble.

Those were our words from the last time. Now let's move on swiftly to our four new words.

Our first word is parley, parley. That's spelled P-A-R-L-E-Y. Now a parley is a conference between opposing sides in a dispute. So if there's a war between two sides and

two sides and those two sides then decide they're going to talk about peace,

they're going to sit down and have a parley.

So this word is almost always used in this context when you have two sides, it could be two people, it could be two political parties, it could even be two countries in a war, but it always means you have two sides usually who are at odds with each other.

They're usually enemies or not on the same side, and then they're going to sit down and try and make peace in some way to hold talks or to negotiate with each other.

My example sentence was, negotiate with each other.

My example sentence was, I sat down with one of my bitter enemies to Parley.

It's important to note that Parley can actually be both a verb and a noun.

So you can say, I had a Parley with him, and you can also say say we parleyed.

Some synonyms are discuss terms, talk, hold talks, deliberate, or negotiate.

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