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English Vocab by Victorprep

Episode 27: Don't be surly about GRE prep.

English Vocab by Victorprep

Sam Fold

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The words for today are: Exacerbate, Pungent, Upbraid, Surly.

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! 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi there, this is Sam coming to you from Southern California where the weather is definitely cool.

0:08.0

We had a lot of rain recently. I don't have the AC on in my apartment which is unusual because it's almost always on

0:16.1

This is the 27th episode of the Victor Prep vogue podcast and

0:28.4

Hello to you all wherever you may be from almost any country around the world feels I get emails from people in India, Taiwan, China, Nepal, everywhere.

0:36.5

So if you all listen to this podcast from somewhere very far off and unusual,

0:41.4

please send me an email and tell me where you're from, because I always and in very cool and exotic places at least exotic to me maybe it's boring to you

0:55.5

anyway let's get started by reviewing the words from episode 26. Those were Ardo.

1:04.8

Ardo. That means passion, great enthusiasm, warmth of feeling.

1:14.2

Rustic, rustic.

1:17.0

That means relating to the countryside or rural.

1:21.2

Can also mean having a simplicity and charm that's associated with the

1:26.2

countryside. Irassable, irascible, That means irate, angry, irritable, and our final word from last time was Perry.

1:43.0

Perry.

1:44.0

Now, that means to ward off an attack,

1:47.5

usually a blocking with a sword, something like that,

1:51.0

can also mean verbal parrying, an act of conversational wit,

1:57.3

avoiding a question in a clever way or being evasive.

2:02.3

Those were our words from last time. Let's move on to the new words.

2:07.0

Our first word is exacerbate.

2:12.0

Exacibate. That is spelled E X A Exa Exa, C E R, Sir, Bate, B A T E, E, E, E, E, E, exacerbate. B A T E, E, Exasser B, E, Exasser B, E, Exasser B, is a verb, and it means basically to make something worse, to make something more severe.

2:32.3

It's often used with feelings or an illness or a disease. So you could say something like,

2:39.0

the symptoms of my cold were exacerbated by jumping into the freezing cold lake.

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