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English Vocab by Victorprep

Episode 40: Don't be a philistine, improve your vocabulary?

English Vocab by Victorprep

Sam Fold

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The words for today are: Solipsism, Philistine, Legerdemain, Peregrinate.

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

Hello there. You thought I wasn't coming back. You probably thought the

0:05.2

podcast was not going to get another episode, but you were wrong. I am back. I am in Ireland right now. I would give you more details about what's been going on

0:17.6

but one listener wrote me and told me that I included too many personal details in the podcast and he was going to

0:26.6

refrain from writing review until I made the podcast more about words and didn't put any personal details in the podcast. So I'll try not

0:39.2

to bore you too much with those details but yes I am in Ireland and this is episode 40 of the

0:46.6

Victor Prep vocab podcast and I am going to review the words of episode 39 if

0:52.1

anyone can remember those given that that was about

0:55.4

two months ago so yeah here we go or returned that's usually referring to a sound and it means full, round, imposing, can mean deep too.

1:10.0

Misanthrop, misanthrop, that is a person who avoids other people, he is a loner or she is a loner or hermit, dislikes other people,

1:20.7

maybe goes alone to live in the woods.

1:24.0

O-Pake, that means you can't see through it like a wall.

1:29.0

It means it's not transparent.

1:33.0

opaque can also be used when referring to information and it can mean

1:36.6

information that's hard or impossible to understand, i.e. that essay was

1:42.2

very opaque and our final word was empirical

1:47.0

empirical that means based on observation and evidence rather than just pure theory or logic.

1:56.5

So those were our words from episode 39.

2:00.4

Now moving on to episode 40. One of the things that did happen in the last few months

2:05.0

was my old laptop got destroyed by coffee

2:08.0

and that laptop did have all my list of words on it.

2:13.0

So I did have to create the whole word list again.

2:16.0

However, I don't have the old order.

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