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English Vocab by Victorprep

Episode 22

English Vocab by Victorprep

Sam Fold

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51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The words for today are: Livid, Axiom, Discerning, Striated.

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0:00.0

Hi guys this is Sam I am full of cold I'm still in England and my mother is just

0:08.7

taking down the Christmas decorations from around the house so I'm a bit worried about me sniffling and

0:14.9

sniffling and there being various noises as my mom takes down all these

0:19.2

decorations so apologies for that. I'm really really to avoid sneezing right now, which is proving difficult.

0:26.0

And this is episode 22 of the Victor Prep Vocare podcast.

0:31.0

Let's start, as always, with going over the previous words from

0:35.8

episode 21. Abscond. Abscond.

0:41.2

That means to leave hurriedly and secretly. Usually you are trying to avoid detection, you've done something bad, you've stolen something from a bank and you're trying to get away. You are absconding.

0:55.0

Relegate.

0:57.0

Relegate. That means to be sent down or move down into an inferior position or place like a team being dropped down a league in a sports competition.

1:10.0

Deliniate. That means to trace the outline of or to represent pictorially, to describe or presents or outline.

1:23.2

Phlicitus. or outline. Felicitous, that means well chosen or well suited to the circumstances or the occasion. It can mean apt, fitting or suitable. Those were our words from

1:38.4

episode 21. I hope you all remembered them and you've learned them well. Now let's move on to the new words.

1:48.8

Our first new word is livid, livid, that's spelled L-I-D-L-I-D-L-I-D-D-L-I-B-V-I-V-I-I-D, it's an adjective, I-D, live-I-D, it, it means incredibly angry, furious, or enraged.

2:08.0

So remember a time when something made you really, really mad, not just a little bit angry, but very extremely

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angry. You were livid. Some synonyms of livid are enraged, very angry, infuriated, irate, incensed,

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raging, incandescent, fuming, ranting, seething, and outraged.

2:38.6

I was trying to find good ways of remembering livid, and I thought about the word vivid because vivid means you have strong

2:47.7

emotions about something. So you can say I had vivid memories it means strong powerful emotions.

2:54.0

Well if you know what vivid means, livid is very similar,

2:58.0

and you can remember that livid also means powerful emotions in a negative way. You could also, and this is quite silly, but

3:06.4

livid backwards is divil, which sounds a bit like devil, and obviously the devil is associated with negative emotions. So you could also think

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