Episode 29: Vocab for life, not just test prep!
English Vocab by Victorprep
Sam Fold
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2015
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The words for today are: Wan, Laud, Exonerate, Analgesia.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody this is Sam this is episode 29 the Victor Prep |
| 0:05.8 | of Vocal Podcast let's quickly cover the words from episode 28. They were whimsical. Wimsical. Wimsical is a word used to describe a person and it means |
| 0:21.4 | given to whimsy or fanciful notions. That means being |
| 0:26.1 | over imaginative and unrealistic, changing your mind a lot, being capricious. Fetted. That basically means an extremely unpleasant |
| 0:38.4 | odor, stinking, reeking, or pungent. Pristine, pristine, that means being like its original state, having |
| 0:51.0 | its original purity, being undirtied, being perfect or immaculate. |
| 1:00.0 | And our final word from last time was deference. |
| 1:02.8 | Deference. |
| 1:04.2 | That means being extremely respectful, |
| 1:06.8 | submitting to someone out of respect, |
| 1:09.6 | or yielding to someone else's will or opinion, usually out of respect or to be courteous, often with someone |
| 1:17.6 | who's more senior in some way than you are. |
| 1:21.6 | Our first new word for today is when, that's spelled W-A-N. Now, when is almost always used to describe a person and it refers to the color of their skin |
| 1:36.8 | looking pale or looking sick so if you describe someone is looking wham, they're often pale, they are looking like maybe |
| 1:46.7 | they're getting sick, they have a cold, they have a flu, it often means pale. So if you remember when someone was sick you knew someone who was sick |
| 1:54.7 | the color in their face is different they may have maybe have less color. They almost |
| 2:00.3 | some people can almost look yellow when they're sick. |
| 2:05.0 | So if you describe someone as when, |
| 2:08.0 | it means that you're suggesting that they look pale, |
| 2:11.0 | they look sickly, they have a whitish or grayish shade to their face. It could also mean someone's just |
| 2:19.2 | looking extremely tired and weak because WAN also implies a weakness or a tiredness. |
| 2:27.0 | You could also use wan to describe a color. |
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