Hello there and welcome to the second episode of the Victor Prep Vocal Podcast for GRE and anything else

you want to use it for, I suppose.

I'm sorry, I have no jingle.

I listen to some other podcasts,

and everyone has their own fancy jingle.

I'm assuming that perhaps something like that may come in time if people actually

listen to the podcast and demand a jingle. I may have to try and work out how one goes about getting a jingle. So yeah that is to look forward to sometime in the future.

Anyway, let's get started.

So in our previous episode, which was episode one,

we covered four words, and I'm now going to very quickly go over them.

And I'm going to go over them slowly

and let you think about what the meaning of them is in your mind first

before I tell you what the meaning is.

So the four words we did last time were

euphemism, endemic, desiccate, and idiosyncrasy. Can you remember what those

words mean? That's euphemism, endemic, desiccate, and idiosyncrasy.

Now I'll go over them myself, hopefully just hearing those words has rung some bells in your minds.

Eufamism is a nicer way of saying a bad sort of thing. So like saying I slept with her instead of saying we had sex.

Endemic is something like native or

or characteristic of a certain people or place.

It can also mean something like native or indigenous. So the classic example is some sort of disease which is

particular to a certain area that disease is always found in that area like

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