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English Vocab by Victorprep

Episode 4: GRE Vocab can be fun, I promise.

English Vocab by Victorprep

Sam Fold

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🗓️ 27 October 2014

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The words for today are: Aggregate, Abstemious, Castigation, Paradox

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0:00.0

Hello there and welcome to episode 4 of the Victor Prep Volka Podcast.

0:07.0

Let's start with the previous words from last week. I'll go over them once, think about what they mean, try and remember. I'm sure

0:16.8

you remember. The words were Ocify, potentate, Solisism, and attenuate.

0:26.6

Ossify, potentate, solacism and attenuates.

0:30.9

Can you remember what those mean? Well, Ocify means to turn into bone to become more stiff and rigid.

0:42.0

Potentate means a powerful leader or a powerful person like a Julius Caesar or the Pope.

0:51.9

Solicism means some sort of grammatical mistake or blunder with words usually, or it could be a social blunder

1:02.0

too. And attenuate, that means to make weaker or to reduce in force.

1:10.3

Now those are our forwards from last week. I hope you remember them all. If you didn't, don't worry. Take a little bit of time to review the previous episode.

1:21.0

And also take some time to write some example sentences out.

1:25.0

Our four new words are aggregate, abstemious, Castigate, and paradox.

1:35.8

That's aggregate, Abstemious, Castigate, and paradox. So let's get started with aggregate. So aggregate is spelled A, G, G, A, G, T, E, G, T, E, E, G, E, G, A, T, E, aggregate.

1:56.3

And in this sense, we're going to be using it as a verb,

2:01.9

but the word can also be used as a noun and an adjective, and I don't want you to get too

2:07.0

confused. In general, the meaning is always about the same, so if you know one meaning, you kind of know all the meanings.

2:16.5

We're going to be looking at the verb form and aggregate as a verb to aggregate means to bring together to collect lots of things and bring them

2:26.6

together into one body or one total or one mess.

2:32.5

So an example sentence might be, I aggregated together all of the flies in my backyard

2:39.6

and tried to make a fly circus.

2:42.2

Sadly, they wouldn't obey me despite my trying to bribe them with

2:47.0

marmalade. Anytime you're bringing together lots of, to form one bigger thing, you are in a sense aggregating

2:56.8

things together.

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