Episode 31: Some say words can be pulchritudinous too.
English Vocab by Victorprep
Sam Fold
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🗓️ 6 April 2015
⏱️ 13 minutes
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The words for today are: Pulchritude, Taciturn, Conundrum, Advocate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there. This is Sam and this is episode 31 of the Victor Prep vocab podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Before we go any further, as always, I will cover the words from episode 30. Those were officious. That means being assertive of authority in an annoying way, being domineering, being intrusive with your |
| 0:30.0 | enthusiasm to offer help or interfering. |
| 0:34.6 | Cloying, cloying. |
| 0:37.1 | That means an excess of sweetness or richness. |
| 0:41.2 | It means almost too romantic, so romantic it's almost disgusting. |
| 0:47.0 | Rarify, rarify, that means to make more rare, or to make more thin. It's usually used with regards to |
| 0:58.2 | thin air when you go higher in altitude. And our final word was malingerer. Malingerer. Malingerer. That's a person who malingers. That means to |
| 1:10.1 | skip school or to skip work by pretending you're ill or sick. |
| 1:15.0 | Our first new word is pulcratude. |
| 1:20.0 | Pulcretude. |
| 1:22.0 | That is spelled P-U-A-B-N-T-B-T-E-B rit r t u d rit rit ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri ri t uddututude Pulkritude. Pulkritude. |
| 1:34.0 | Pulcritude, although it may not sound that pretty or beautiful of a word, |
| 1:39.8 | means beauty or fairness or loveliness that is pulcitude so some synonyms are |
| 1:48.2 | prettiness good looks or good looking comeliness, attractiveness, or even just beautiful. |
| 1:59.0 | This is a word that is mainly used in literary terms, maybe in a poem or an older book. |
| 2:06.4 | It's not a word that you usually hear people say in day-to-day life. |
| 2:11.4 | You're not going to hear your friend say, wow, that girl over there is |
| 2:15.8 | pulchrotudiness. And by the way, that is the adjective form. So that sunset was pulchrotudiness. So that sunset was pulchrotuginous. That sunset was beautiful. |
| 2:36.0 | The original origin of this word is from Latin. Comes from a word pulchre, I think that's how it is pronounced. I'm not an expert on pronunciation of Latin words. |
| 2:47.0 | Pulker, which means beautiful. I can't think of any super great way of remembering what this word means by how it sounds. |
| 2:57.2 | If you think pulcratudinous or pulcritude is a beautiful word, that will help. But maybe it's so unusual sounding you might just remember, oh, |
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