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English Vocab by Victorprep

Episode 25: GRE comeback special!

English Vocab by Victorprep

Sam Fold

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The words for today are: Knell, Palatial, Lethargic, Oscillate.

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.

The podcast covers a variety of words and sometimes additionally covers word roots. Using a podcast to prep for the verbal test lets you study while on the go, or even while working out! 

If you have comments or questions and suggestions, please contact me at @SamFold or send me an email at sam.fold@gmail.com.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello there, this is Sam of the Victor Prep Vocal Podcast and this one has been a long time coming and I feel almost a little bad now recording it so late a month after the last podcast.

0:18.0

And all I can say is that this podcast is for free, right? I don't get paid for it. And I have a job that often

0:28.0

requires me put a lot of extra hours in and travel. So I was recently in Asia on a business trip. was in

0:32.8

recently in Asia on a business trip and then came back from Asia and I had a lot of work to do and

0:38.8

worked some late nights and worked some all night as in fact at my job. So there's no like and do about that and I do feel bad because

0:48.3

there are a lot of people emailing me saying, hey Sam, where's the next podcast?

0:53.0

And, you know, I feel bad, right?

0:56.0

So, yeah, I'm sorry about that.

1:00.0

Obviously the podcast is not my job.

1:02.0

It's something I do for fun and because I enjoy it because I want to help people at the same time I do have an actual job, right? So I can't always do the amount of podcasts I might want to do. So I am really sorry about that, but please understand that, like I say, it isn't something that gives me any money and, you know, obviously I have an actual job I need to you know work

1:25.1

at so anyway going over the previous episode's words that's episode 24 those words were, precipitate, that is to cause an event to happen suddenly,

1:40.3

usually something that is bad or undesirable

1:43.2

also means to

1:45.0

to hasten the occurrence of something

1:47.1

or to bring about something in a sudden or swift way.

1:50.8

Eerie, that's a noun that means a large nest of a bird of prey.

1:58.0

Could also mean a building or something built high upon something else, like a cliff or a penthouse on top of a

2:08.7

building. Ambivalence. Ambivalence. That is the state of having mixed feelings about something or contradictory ideas about something or someone.

2:21.0

And the final word was gamble.

2:24.5

Gamble.

2:25.5

Gamble means to run or jump about playfully, like a lamb in a field.

2:31.5

So, let's get started with our four new words. The first word is Nell.

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