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English Vocab by Victorprep

Episode 17

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

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The words for today are: Lachrymose, Euphony, Ingratiate, Polyglot.

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.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello there. It's Saturday night and like all the cool kids right now I am at home recording

0:07.1

podcasts. This is Sam and this is the Victor Prep Folkare Podcast.

0:14.2

Let's go over last episode's words.

0:16.9

The words were pathogenic, venerable, dilatory, and admonish.

0:25.0

Firstly, pathogenic.

0:28.0

Pathogenic means capable of producing disease,

0:32.3

or disease causing, often used with bacteria and viruses.

0:37.0

Venerable.

0:40.0

Venerable means given a great deal of respect. It's a word that's applied to people usually and it's about those people who are given a lot of respect because of age, wisdom, character.

0:54.4

Dilatory, that means slow to act.

0:58.7

It also means intending to cause a delay. And our final word from the last time was Admonish.

1:06.0

Now Admonish has two meanings.

1:09.0

It means to warn someone or recommend someone firmly

1:16.0

also means to advise or urge someone in an earnest way.

1:22.0

So you could admonish someone to drink less alcohol for example.

1:27.0

Those were our words from last time. I hope they didn't come as a surprise to you if they did.

1:34.0

Perhaps you didn't listen to the previous episode and you probably should do.

1:38.0

Although I suppose it doesn't really matter if you listen to the episodes out of order but you probably

1:44.4

should do just because I remind you of the words in the next episode and that's for a

1:48.6

reason right the reason why we repeat these things is through repetition we learn. We cannot learn anything

1:56.3

without some sort of repetition. That's why we have the test episodes, which will come every

2:01.3

ten episodes. That's why I try to find numerous ways of describing each word.

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