Hello there. This is the Victor Prep Vocal Podcast. This is Sam. And as always, let's quickly review the words from last time.

Those were Magnanimous, that means to be forgiving or generous, especially towards someone who is a rival or someone perhaps who's wronged you or insulted you.

Our second word was approbation, approbation, that means approval or praise.

Adulterate?

That meant to make something poorer or worse in quality by adding another substance,

usually something that is inferior.

And our final word from the last time

was discrepancy.

Discrepancy. That means a lack of compatibility between two or more facts. That is to say, the facts disagree with each other.

Those were our words from last time. I hope that those

meanings are not a surprise to you. Let's quickly move on now to the new words.

Our first word, episode 34, is emulate.

Emulate.

That is spelled E-M-U-M-U-L-A-T-E-E-L-E late emulate. To emulate means to match or try to surpass someone typically by

imitating them. So if you like to write, for example, as in writing stories, you might want to try and emulate JK Rolling, the writer who wrote the Harry Potter books, or J.R.R.R. Tolkien who wrote the Lord of the

Rings series. So you are trying to emulate them. You are looking at them, looking at their books, and trying to understand how to be like

them, because they are obviously some of their most successful writers.

So to emulate means to try to imitate someone else to become like

them, to try to equal them or perhaps even Excel like them.

Some synonyms are imitate, copy, mirror, follow, or model oneself on. So if you think about something you want to get better

at in life, whether it's something to do your job or the subject you study at school, think of someone who is really, really good at that thing.

Who is your hero? Who is your idol?

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