Episode 32

English Vocab by Victorprep

Sam Fold

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The words for today are: Raconteur, Neologism, Missive, Imperturbable.

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0:00.0	Hello there. This is Sam. This is episode 32 of the Victor Prep
0:06.4	Focap podcast. Let's quickly review the words form episode 31.
0:12.1	Pulcritude, that means beauty or beautiful, means
0:20.9	comeliness attractiveness, often used in a literary context in books or poems.
0:29.7	Canundrum, that means a confusing or difficult problem or question.
0:37.0	Tacetern, Tacetern, that usually refers to a person and it means reserved or uncommunicative, saying little or quiet.
0:51.2	And our final word from last time was advocate. An advocate is a person who publicly supports some sort of cause or policy.
1:02.0	It could be political, religious, some social cause, or even animal welfare.
1:10.0	Our first new word is R-O-T-T-E-R-O-T-T-E-T-T-R-R-O-T-R-O-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-E-R-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-E-Tr, R-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-T-O-O-O- tells anecdotes or stories in a skillful and funny or amusing way.
1:38.0	So let's go into that a bit more. You may know someone in your life who has led a particularly
1:47.8	adventurous or interesting life. They've travelled a lot, They may have seen some crazy things. And when you meet
1:56.8	them or see them, they may tell a lot of interesting stories from their life. And not only did they tell these stories, they tell them in a
2:06.2	particularly excellent way. They're funny, they're exciting, they have the gift of being able to talk about things and make it fascinating, make it interesting.
2:18.0	That person is a raconteur, a person who can tell these stories about their life in a particularly good way.
2:29.4	Some synonyms Rachontur are Storyteller, a teller of tales, a spinner of yarns, or a narrator. Now, it's not
2:40.9	enough to have interesting things to talk about. Plenty of people have
2:45.2	interesting things to talk about, but telling those stories in such a way that
2:51.2	fascinates the listener which excites the attentions of your audience.
2:55.4	That is altogether a more skilled endeavor. That is why it's a little bit more rare.
3:00.5	To encounter someone who is a real raconteur, they not only have interesting things to talk about, but the way they tell them grabs everyone's attention.
3:11.0	This is the kind of person who could be the center of the room telling a story about
3:15.4	their life. And sometimes with a particularly skilled speaker, it doesn't even need to be a particularly adventurous story. It's just the way they tell the story
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