Episode 37: Don't be apathetic, never give up!
English Vocab by Victorprep
Sam Fold
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🗓️ 8 May 2015
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The words for today are: Apathy, Iniquity, Analogous, Ingrate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there. This is Sam, broadcasting to you from the quiet town of Irvine in Southern California. |
| 0:09.0 | Before we get started with the new words, let's go over what we covered in episode 36. Those were |
| 0:17.8 | insensible. That means to be without one's mental faculties, to be dazed or stunned, usually as a result of violence, being hit in the head, or intoxication through drugs or alcohol. It means unconscious. |
| 0:35.6 | It also means senseless or comatose or passed out. Our second word was mannered, mannered. That means marked by idiosyncratic mannerisms |
| 0:51.0 | to be artificial or stilted could also mean pretentious, contrived if someone is acting in a false or fake way. |
| 1:02.0 | Precarious. |
| 1:04.0 | Precarious. |
| 1:06.0 | That means not securely held or in a safe position. |
| 1:11.0 | It could also mean dangerously likely to fall or collapse. |
| 1:19.0 | And our final word was largesse, largesse. That means to be generous in bestowing or giving money or gifts to other people. |
| 1:30.0 | Means generosity, bountifulness, or philanthropy. |
| 1:35.0 | Let's go over the new words now, and our first word is apathy. |
| 1:44.0 | apathy. That word is spelled APA aper T. H y thi. |
| 1:52.0 | Epathy. T-H-Y, Thee, apathy. |
| 1:54.8 | Apathy means a lack of interest, enthusiasm or concern. |
| 2:00.4 | Some synonyms are indifference, lack of interest, lack of enthusiasm, unresponsiveness, langer, lethargy or on we. |
| 2:15.0 | So have you ever had one of those days where you just don't feel like doing anything. |
| 2:20.8 | Even if there's something that might interest you normally, you're having a day where you just |
| 2:26.3 | find yourself not caring. That is to be apathetic. So, small note here here apathy is the noun and apathetic is the adjective and |
| 2:38.9 | you'll find that apathetic is often more commonly used than apathy. So one has apathy and you are apathetic. |
| 3:15.6 | Apathetic is spelled APA T-H-E-T-E-T-I-C-A-T-T-I-T-T-I-T-T-I. So if you're apathetic you're lacking in energy or enthusiasm. Your friend might ask you to go to the cinema, but if you're feeling apathetic, you don't really care, you're not excited, you'd rather just lay around and not do anything, you're not showing any interest or |
| 3:20.6 | enthusiasm to go to the cinema. |
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