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English Vocab by Victorprep

Episode 18

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: Obdurate, Panegyric, Larceny, Rococo.

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's a

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Sunday it's a beautiful day outside there's a slight breeze a little bit of sun and it's slightly cool at least a little bit of

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sun and it's slightly cool at least a little cool for California and

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this is the 18th episode of the Victor Prep Vocal podcast As always this is Sam your host and before we get started I just wanted to say

0:28.8

It would be really really cool if you like the podcast and you enjoy it. If you add a review to the iTunes

0:35.8

podcast page. I'm not going to beg for reviews or anything like that. It's just I want as many people to listen and learn from the

0:46.1

podcast as possible so that it may encourage people who are on the fence about

0:50.8

trying a podcast if they see good reviews.

0:54.0

So if you do actually enjoy the podcast and you feel like it's useful,

0:59.1

please do feel free to put a review on iTunes,

1:02.2

but it's not a big deal. Thank you so much and let's get

1:05.7

started by reviewing the words from episode 17. Those were ingratiate, euphony, polyglot and lacrimose.

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Ingratiate, that means to bring oneself into favour with someone by trying to do something to please them, trying to do something to flatter them, or maybe even give them a gift.

1:36.4

Eufony. Eufiny means the quality of being pleasant to the ear,

1:41.7

pleasing sounds, beautiful music, or poetry where the words are carefully

1:49.8

chosen to provide a nice sound.

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Polyglot. Polyglot means a person who knows or uses several languages.

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Lachrimose.

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Lachrimose means tearful, crying.

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If someone is lacrimose, they're usually very sad and they're weeping.

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Now let's get started on our new words.

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Our first word is larceny, larceny. That is spelled L-A-R-L-A-R-L-S-N-Y-S-N-Y, that is spelled L-A-R-S-N-Y, L-S-E-Y, L- C-E-N-Y, larceny.

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