Episode 21

English Vocab by Victorprep

Sam Fold

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🗓️ 5 January 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The words for today are: Abscond, Delineate, Relegate, Felicitous.

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0:00.0	Hello there. It's cold outside, it's wet, and occasionally the wind is howling outside.
0:10.0	And this is episode 21 of the Victory Prep Vocal Podcast. This is Sam as always.
0:18.0	Before we get started, I have some news.
0:21.0	First of all, I have a Facebook page now for the podcast that is at Victor Prep Learning.
0:28.3	So Facebook.com forward slash Victor Prep Learning and on there I'm posting up news of the new episodes as well as
0:36.8	articles that I've been writing about the gare verbal and learning new words The first article is posted up there and is on the website
0:45.9	Victor Prep.com. So please start checking out the website and the Facebook page. I'm going
0:51.9	to be updating those pretty regularly so there is
0:55.2	going to be content other than the actual podcasts which could help you with the
0:59.1	verbal okay with the news out of the, let's get started by reviewing the words from episode 20.
1:07.2	Sublime, sublime. That means lofty in thought, elevated, it means complete, supreme, or outstanding.
1:20.0	Pithy, that means concise, forcefully expressive, it means saying something in a short and crisp way.
1:35.0	Apostate.
1:37.0	Apostate.
1:38.0	That is a person who leaves or renounces a religion, a political belief, or principle.
1:45.0	Dilatant.
1:47.3	Dilatant.
1:48.9	That means a person who pursues an area of interest or an art but without real commitment, real knowledge
1:57.0	or skill. Those were our words from episode 20. Now we will move on as always to some new ones. Our first new
2:07.8	word is abscond. Abscond. That is spelled AB S C O N D. Abscond. Abscond is a verb and it means to leave quickly and secretly.
2:27.0	Usually that word is used when someone has done something bad and they're trying to get away from the police for example.
2:35.0	So if you imagine a classic bank robber type movie, someone has robbed a bank and they want to leave and they want to get away from the bank
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