Episode 36: New words, new microphone , new podcast!
English Vocab by Victorprep
Sam Fold
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2015
⏱️ 13 minutes
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The words for today are: Insensible, Mannered, Precarious, Largess.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there and welcome to the Victor Prep vocab podcast episode |
| 0:06.3 | number 36 this is Sam I like to apologize for the delay between |
| 0:12.2 | podcasts I've actually had some equipment problems. |
| 0:15.6 | My old microphone was failing. So ordered a new microphone and I have that now. So, yep, using it now. So hopefully there'll be some improvement with that. And let's get started by reviewing the words from episode 35. Those were disseminate, disseminate, that means to |
| 0:40.3 | spread or disperse something widely. |
| 0:44.0 | That usually means information, |
| 0:46.5 | but it could mean something like |
| 0:48.0 | spreading seed over a number of fields, |
| 0:51.0 | disseminating the seed. |
| 0:53.0 | Isoteric, that means intended for or only likely to be understood by a small number of people usually with a specialized |
| 1:05.4 | knowledge or interest. |
| 1:08.4 | Innovate. |
| 1:10.4 | Innovate. |
| 1:11.7 | That means to cause someone to feel drained of energy or vitality, to weaken someone. |
| 1:20.0 | And our final word was xenophobia. Xenophobia, that means an intense or irrational |
| 1:27.4 | dislike or fear of people from other countries or fear of strangers. |
| 1:35.0 | Our first new word is insensible, insensible. |
| 1:40.9 | That spelled INSEN S-E-N-S-E-N-S-I-S-I-B-L-E-S-I-B-E-S-B-E-S-B-E-S-B-E-Sibyl-Sibyl-S-B-E-S-B-E-S-B-E-S-B-E-S-E-S-E-S-E-S-E-S-N, insensible. To be insensible means to be without one's mental faculties, typically as a result of violence or intoxication, maybe with some drug, it also can mean to be unconscious. |
| 2:07.6 | So what does that mean? Well, imagine you've been in a fight. Someone's been punching you in the head and |
| 2:17.2 | you've been punched so hard that you don't know what's going on anymore. You don't |
| 2:21.0 | know where you are, you can't think straight, you are insensible. |
| 2:27.0 | Some synonyms are unconscious, insensate, senseless, inert, comatose, knocked out, passed out, or blacked out. |
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