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English Vocab by Victorprep

Episode 38: Abstain from TV and listen to this podcast!

English Vocab by Victorprep

Sam Fold

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The words for today are: Abstain, Harangue, Sporadic, Caustic.

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

This podcast isn't only intended for those studying for the GRE or SAT, but also for people who enjoy learning, and especially those who want to improve their English skills.

I run the podcast for fun and because I want to help people out there studying for tests or simply learning English.

The podcast covers a variety of words and sometimes additionally covers word roots. Using a podcast to prep for the verbal test lets you study while on the go, or even while working out! 

If you have comments or questions and suggestions, please contact me at @SamFold or send me an email at sam.fold@gmail.com.

Check out the podcast website at VictorPrep.com or the Facebook page at Facebook.com/victorpreplearning

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi there everybody Sam here and this is episode 38 of the Victor Prep

0:07.1

vocab podcast let's briefly cover episode 37's words. Those were apathy, apathy. That means a lack of interest,

0:20.6

enthusiasm or concern. It can also mean lack of interest for something that you

0:27.5

used to find interesting or that other people find exciting. Iniquity, that means immoral or greatly unfair behavior can also mean sinfulness. Analogous, that means comparable in certain

0:51.0

respects, usually in a way that makes clearer the nature of the things that you're comparing.

0:59.9

And our final word was in great, in great, that simply means a person who is ungrateful.

1:08.8

So before we get started on the new words, just a quick update about the podcast. I'm really trying

1:15.2

super hard to record a bit more often. I work a very busy job. I'm a software

1:20.5

engineer at a video game company and as part of my job I'm responsible for servers

1:27.3

staying alive basically staying up and that often means I work late hours or I might work nights and sometimes weekends too so it's kind of difficult for me to keep really regular with the schedule

1:38.6

but I do want to keep a regular schedule some people have emailed me saying they want me to do

1:45.4

more podcasts and more often and I really understand that and I want to do that too.

1:50.3

So I am trying I'm trying to spend a bit less time working at working from home, which is hard sometimes.

1:59.0

But yeah, I am thinking about that and I am trying and I have some other new things planned too, so I'll let you know about those when it could when they come around.

2:10.0

Anyway, we have four new words.

2:13.2

Let's start with Abstain.

2:16.5

Abstain.

2:17.4

That's spelled A B, Abstain.

2:20.3

S T A I N,N, stain, abstain.

2:25.0

Abstain means to stop yourself from doing something.

2:30.0

And it usually implies stopping yourself from doing something that you might enjoy.

2:36.2

So you might abstain from eating chocolate.

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