Hi there and this is the 15th episode of the Victor Prep Folkair

podcast this is Sam and as always we'll start off by going over the previous

episodes words they were placate, confound, peripatetic and

turgit. So I hope just by saying those I've stirred up some memory and it can't

be that hard because it was only a few days ago but let's go over them and remember what they meant. So placate, that means to make

someone who's angry or hostile less angry so you're trying to make someone

calmer or more reasonable

Confound

Confound means to cause surprise or confusion, usually in a person, and especially by something happening that is counter to their expectations.

Peripatetic.

Peripatetic means traveling from place to place.

It's often used when referring to a person who lives or works in many different places or who moves around throughout their life.

Turjid. Turgid means swollen, distended, congested.

Think of a water balloon that's filled and about to burst that is turgid. Our first new word is obstinate,

obstinate. That is spelled O B S T I N A T E, obstinate.

Now, to be obstinate is to be stubborn. It is refusing to change one's opinion or idea or

your course of action despite perhaps people trying to persuade you to do so. So you can think of

children often being obstinate. You're trying to persuade your child to go to school, but they've decided I am not going to go to school, and no matter what you say, that child does not want to go to school, and they are not going to go to school and they are not going to go to school.

They are being obstinate.

Some synonyms are stubborn, unyielding, inflexible, unbending, intransigent, intractable, muleish, bull-headed,inate can also be used to describe a situation or a phenomenon.

So you could say the country had an obstinate problem of unemployment.

That meant that the problem of employment, unemployment was very difficult to change.

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