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English Vocab by Victorprep

Episode 16

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

🗓️ 14 December 2014

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The words for today are: Pathogenic, Venerable, Dilatory, Admonish.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello there, this is Sam and I'm going to go over episode 15's words really shortly.

0:08.0

I am recently back from my trip to Austin, Texas and just about recovered. I didn't get an amazing amount of sleep

0:17.8

there. The hotel had incredibly uncomfortable beds. However, now I am back in California and I have no work to do. It's the

0:28.6

weekend and that means it's time to record podcasts. So our words for episode 15, let's go over those. They were

0:39.1

obstinate, diaphanous, puri, and Prece.

0:46.2

So obstinate.

0:48.0

Obstinate meant to be stubborn, to be unyielding by refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action

1:00.4

despite perhaps people telling you or trying to persuade you that you shouldn't be doing that, you just keep on doing it.

1:07.0

Daphinus, this is usually referring to fabric of some kind.

1:14.0

It means light, delicate, translucent, something that lets some light through, but isn't completely transparent like glass.

1:24.0

Pure Isle.

1:26.0

Purele means silly, childish, trivial, immature.

1:31.0

Preycee, Precy means a concise or short summary or abstract of a longer text or speech. I hope you remembered those words despite the length of time since our last

1:46.8

podcast which I apologize for. That said let's see what the new words are. Our first word is pathogenic.

1:57.7

Pathogenic. That's spelled P-A-T-H-P-O-P-O-G-E-N-I-C-S-P-O-G-O-G-E-N-I-C-S-P-O-G-O-G-O-G-O-G-O-G-N-I-C-T-G-O-G-O-G-O-G-O-G-O-G-O-G-O-G-G-G-O-G-O-G-O-O-O-G Fairly simple, has one meaning, means producing disease or capable of producing disease.

2:18.0

It's usually used when referring to some sort of virus or bacteria. So you could say this virus is

2:27.2

pathogenic or heat and ultraviolet rays kill many pathogenic organisms.

2:36.0

There are not many synonyms for pathogenic,

2:40.0

two I found were infective and morbidic, but because it's quite a specialized word and meaning only

2:49.5

one thing, there aren't many other ways of saying this. It is quite a scientific word.

2:54.4

Ways of remembering this. Well, if you know the words pathology or pathetic,

3:02.4

you'll notice that they all begin with path or patho.

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