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English Vocab by Victorprep

Episode 19

English Vocab by Victorprep

Sam Fold

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51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2014

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The words for today are: Bolster, Plastic, Luminous, Symbiosis.

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0:00.0

Hello there's a

0:02.0

it's relatively cold there's a slight breeze it's Tuesday evening and this is

0:09.4

episode 19 of the Victor Prep vococal Podcast, I'm Sam as always and let's get started by reviewing the previous

0:20.1

words.

0:22.1

They were Larceny, obdurate, panagy and rakko, and Rococo. Larceny. That means burglary, robbery. It means to take something from someone else that

0:41.3

obviously doesn't belong to you. Obduit, that means stubborn, it means

0:50.0

unmoved by persuasion, unyielding, someone who won't change their course of action no matter what you say to them.

1:00.1

Panagiric?

1:01.6

A Panachiric is a public speech or published piece of writing that praises someone or something.

1:12.0

Rococo. something.

1:13.0

Rococo. Rococo usually refers to furniture or architecture and it means a particularly

1:20.9

elaborate and ornamental style, very embellished and elaborate, often

1:27.0

flary or rich.

1:30.8

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

1:37.0

Our first new word is bolster.

1:42.0

That is spelled B-O-L-S-T-E-R, Bolster. This is a noun and it has a number of meanings, but we'll go over two today.

1:57.0

Two common meanings.

1:58.8

The first meaning is a noun and that means a long thick pillow that's often placed under other pillows.

2:07.3

So think of your regular kind of pillow that you sleep on and imagine a pillow that's twice as long and you might place at the bottom of a pile of pillows to support the other pillows that's a bolster.

2:22.0

Now this is I think more of an old-fashioned

2:25.9

meaning bolsters aren't that much of a common thing anymore. I'm just giving you

2:30.8

this meaning just so you know it, but it's generally not going to be a word

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