Episode 28: Pristine test preparation!
English Vocab by Victorprep
Sam Fold
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🗓️ 15 March 2015
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The words for today are: Pristine, Fetid, Whimsical, Deference.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there. It is Pie Day today. That's the 14th of March 3.14, |
| 0:09.0 | Pie of course. And this is episode 28 of the Victor Prep |
| 0:14.0 | vocab podcast let's start by quickly going over the words from |
| 0:18.8 | episode 27. |
| 0:20.1 | Those were exacerbate, that means to increase the severity, bitterness or violence of something, to make something worse or to make someone's feelings worse. |
| 0:38.8 | Pungent, pungent, that is a sharp biting smell, usually a bad smell or a bad taste. |
| 0:50.0 | It could also mean a remark or comment that's mean or nasty or acidic. |
| 0:57.0 | Upgrade. Upgrade means to find faults with something, to rebuke someone, to scold or chastise someone. |
| 1:11.0 | And the final word was surly, surly, that means rude or bad-tempered, maybe grouchy as well. |
| 1:22.0 | Now let's move on to the new words. Our first new word is whimsical. Wimsical. That is spelled W-H-I-M-W-H-I-M-W-W-H-I-M-W-W-W-H-I-M-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-H-I-M-Wim-S-I-C-A-C-A-L-C-A-C-A-L-C-L-C-O-O, so whimsical. W-S- to whimsy or fanciful notions. |
| 1:51.0 | So given to whimsy, what does that mean? What does whimsy mean? Well, to be |
| 1:57.8 | whimsy means to be prone to playfully quaint or fanciful behavior. So what does that mean? Well, often you might know someone, especially when you were younger as a child, who had extremely powerful imagination and were very playful, perhaps they would imagine that their pets were people and they could speak to them and were very kind of playful and imaginative. |
| 2:32.0 | Wimsical can also mean... and imaginative. |
| 2:37.0 | Wimsical can also mean someone who's unpredictable, also known as being capricious, |
| 2:40.0 | that means changing your mind at the slightest notice. |
| 2:43.4 | So someone who's whimsical is imaginative or playful and amusing, |
| 2:49.2 | often you don't know what they're going to do next. |
| 2:52.4 | They'll always be coming up with some fanciful |
| 2:54.2 | notion or fanciful ideas, which are not necessarily realistic. Some synonyms of whimsical are fanciful, playful, mischievous, quaint, curious, and fantastical. |
| 3:12.0 | Our second word is fetid, fetid. Fetid is spelled Fetid, Fetid, is spelled Fetid, |
| 3:18.0 | I d it fetid. If you're British English, fetid will be spelled for you F oe Id fetid, same pronunciation. |
| 3:32.0 | Fetid means something similar to Pungent from last time. It means an extremely |
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