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English Vocab by Victorprep

Episode 30: No malingering please!

English Vocab by Victorprep

Sam Fold

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The words for today are: Rarefy, Cloying, Malingerer, Officious.

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.

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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

Hello everybody, Sam here. This is episode 30 of the Victor Prep Vocal Podcast.

0:07.0

30 episodes. That's quite a lot. That's 30 times four words 4 words well once you've done this episode is words so

0:16.6

120 words that's pretty good but there's a long way to go. So let's get started by covering the words from episode 29.

0:27.0

Those were WAN.

0:31.0

WAN.

0:32.0

WAN means WAN, means an unnatural or sickly color of someone.

0:38.0

Their face is pale, suggesting ill health or fatigue or unhappiness.

0:47.0

Lord. Lord. Lord means to praise, to applaud or acclaim someone.

0:58.0

Exonerate, exonerate.

1:00.8

That means to absolve someone from blame for a crime or wrongdoing to find someone innocent of something.

1:12.0

And our final word from last time was analgesia.

1:15.0

Anlegia.

1:17.0

That means absence of a sense of pain or the inability to feel pain.

1:22.0

Now we're going to or the inability to feel pain.

1:26.0

Now we're going to move on to our new words. And our first word is officious.

1:30.0

E officious.

1:31.0

That is spelled OFF of I C I OUS, Eficious. Now this may take a little bit of explanation but a ficious is a word that refers to

1:47.9

someone who usually has some authority and they use that authority in an annoying, overbearing or domineering way, and especially

1:59.1

with regard to matters of little importance or trivial matters.

2:05.0

Some synonyms are self-important,

2:08.4

bumpious, self-assertive, overbearing, domineering, and over-zealous.

2:17.0

Let's go into a little bit more detail.

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