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English Vocab by Victorprep

Episode 33: Be magnanimous with your enemies

English Vocab by Victorprep

Sam Fold

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The words for today are: Magnanimous, Approbation, Adulterate, Discrepancy.

VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helping you prepare for your standardized tests!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Good evening or good morning or good day wherever you are. This is Sam and this is

0:10.3

episode 33 of the Victor Prep Vocal Podcast.

0:14.7

Welcome to you.

0:16.2

No matter if this is your first podcast

0:18.1

who are listening to by me or the 33rd.

0:22.0

Welcome. Let's quickly get started by reviewing the words we learned in the previous

0:28.0

episode. Rachontur. Rachontour, that means a person who tells stories or anecdotes in an extremely skillful, amusing or witty fashion.

0:43.0

Missive, that is a letter, especially a long letter or one which is official, as though it were written by a government.

0:55.0

Neologism, that is a brand new word or phrase some word that perhaps you've invented.

1:07.0

And our final word from last time was imperturbable.

1:11.0

Imperturbable. imperturbable.

1:13.5

That means unable to be upset.

1:16.5

It means to be calm, to be cool, to be collected.

1:31.5

I hope you remembered those okay. Now let's move on to the new words and our first word is magnanimous.

1:35.0

That's spelled M-A-G-M-A-G-M-A-N-N-M-O-S-I-U-S-I-S-I-N-N-N-N-N-E-S-I-N-N-N-N-I-M-O-U-S-I-N-N-O-U-S-I-N-N-N-O-U-U-S, To be magnanimous means you are very generous or forgiving and especially towards someone who is less powerful than yourself.

2:04.0

So assume, let's imagine you were a prince or a general,

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and you had a war with another general, and you were a more powerful general or had a bigger army, and you won, and the other general surrendered.

2:22.0

And in his general surrendered and in his surrender you were generous towards him

2:27.2

you didn't take away all his wealth for all his possessions or land, you were relatively generous, you were

2:36.8

being magnanimous in your position of power.

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Another example could be, let's say you're at school and there's another kid who is a rival of yours.

2:49.0

Let's say he's a rival for yours on a sports team or something.

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