Episode 41: The time you have is ephemeral, don't waste it!
English Vocab by Victorprep
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🗓️ 3 August 2015
⏱️ 11 minutes
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The words for today are: Lament, Ephemeral, Conciliatory, Implicit.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there everybody I am back in Southern California it is a beautifully hot day it's |
| 0:08.3 | quite humid and this is episode 41 of the Victor Prep ofocat podcast. Welcome back. |
| 0:15.0 | And let's start by reviewing the words of episode 40. |
| 0:20.0 | Those were solipsism. Solipsism is the view or idea that only the self can be known to exist, but it is also the quality of being self-centered or selfish or being very self-absorbed. |
| 0:36.3 | So you could say someone is solipsistic. |
| 0:39.7 | A Philistine, but is a person who is hostile or Lydydydydydydydydyrne. That is slight of hand different to culture and the arts. |
| 0:49.3 | Ledger domain. That is sleight of hand or trickery perhaps being pickpocketed and |
| 0:59.6 | peregrinate peregr. That means to travel or wonder from place to place could also mean a journey. |
| 1:10.0 | So I'm going to try a slightly different format today. First I'm going to cover all the words, then I'm going to go over them individually, and then I'm going to repeat all the words again as normal and then do the test sentences. |
| 1:26.2 | So our four words for today are lament, ephemeral, conciliatory and implicit. |
| 1:36.0 | Lament, that's a passionate expression of grief or sorrow, ephemeral, that means lasting for a very short time. |
| 1:48.3 | Consiliatory, that is when you intend to pacify someone, calm someone down, or become close again with someone who perhaps was angry at you. |
| 2:01.0 | And implicit is something that is implied, but it's not actually plainly |
| 2:09.8 | expressed. So let's go over these words in more depth. The first word is lament, lament, L-A-M-E-T, a Lament, and it is a noun, is a passionate expression of sadness or sorrow. |
| 2:30.5 | So if you hear someone crying out loud or wailing or otherwise making some sort of expression that shows how sad they are, how upset they are, that is a lament you could think of perhaps someone |
| 2:45.8 | singing an incredibly sad song because someone died for example that would be |
| 2:51.7 | a lament. |
| 2:53.0 | Some synonyms of lament are whale, lamentation, moan, moaning, weeping, crying, or sobbing. |
| 3:05.0 | You can imagine a bird singing a sad lament |
| 3:10.0 | when he discovers that his mate has died. |
| 3:15.0 | Our second word is ephemeral. |
| 3:18.0 | ephemeral. |
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