Episode 35: Disseminating esoteric knowledge.
English Vocab by Victorprep
Sam Fold
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🗓️ 26 April 2015
⏱️ 11 minutes
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The words for today are: Disseminate, Esoteric, Enervate, Xenophobia.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there. This is the Victor Prep vocab podcast episode number 35. |
| 0:06.0 | Good morning or good evening or good day to you wherever you are. Let's start as always by reviewing the words from the previous |
| 0:16.8 | episode. Those were emulate to match or surpass another person typically by imitating them. So you're trying to emulate |
| 0:29.7 | someone's achievements. Polemic, that is a strong verbal or written attack against someone else or a something. |
| 0:42.0 | Furtive, that means attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically |
| 0:51.2 | because you've done something bad, so you feel guilty, or you believe |
| 0:55.8 | that to be discovered would lead to trouble. |
| 1:00.3 | And our final word from last time was scintilla. |
| 1:03.1 | scintilla. |
| 1:04.4 | That means a tiny amount of something, a trace of something, |
| 1:09.1 | which could be a physical thing, or it could be a quality or feeling. |
| 1:14.0 | Our first word for today is disseminate. |
| 1:18.0 | Disseminate. |
| 1:20.0 | That is spelled D-I-S-D-S-D-E-M-S-E-M-S-A-T-E-E-N-A-T-E inate disseminate. To disseminate means to spread or disperse something widely. Now that could be a physical thing like dispersing seeds across a field or |
| 1:47.8 | it could mean to spread information. So if you were trying to spread some information around your local town or city, you could be said to be disseminating that information. |
| 1:59.0 | Some synonyms of disseminate are spread, circulate, distribute, disperse, promulgate, propagate, |
| 2:10.4 | propagate, publicize, communicate, or make known. |
| 2:17.0 | The internet is an amazing tool for disseminating information around the world. |
| 2:23.0 | You can use Twitter, Facebook, all of these different tools for spreading information around for disseminating information. |
| 2:31.0 | Our second word is esoteric, esoteric. It is spelled Eso, Eso, So, So, So, So, T Er I C, T, T, R I C, T, T, T-E-R-I-C-T-E-R-I-C-T-E-E-O-T-E-T-E-T-E-T-E-E-S-O-T-E-E-E-S-O-T-E-E-O-E-S-O-T-E-E-R-I-T-E-S-O-T-E-T-E-E-E-T-T-E-T-T-E-T-E-E-T and it refers to information that is only understood by a small number of people, |
| 2:56.0 | that is extremely specialized information or specialized knowledge. |
| 3:01.0 | So if you imagine someone who's been studying a subject for a very long time, let's say Stephen Hawking, he's a famous physicist. |
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