Hello everybody. This is Sam. First of all, let's review the words from our last episode, which is episode 41. Those words were, lament, ephemeral, conciliatory, and implicit.

Lament is a passionate expression of grief or sorrow.

So imagine a bird singing a sad song because their mate died.

Affemoral, that means something that lasts for a very short amount of time, like a new fashion

trend that was ephemeral.

Consiliatory, that is when something is intended to placate or pacify someone.

So if you talk in a conciliatory tone of voice, you're perhaps trying to calm someone down or appeasing someone.

And implicit, that means when something is implied, though not plainly expressed.

So it's implied that you are quiet if you go to a church or another place of worship but often it's not clearly expressed.

We just know it.

Right.

Now it's time for episode 42, a new set of words. This is the Victory Prep

Vocal Podcast. I'm Samfold. And our first word is indolent.

indolent. That's spelled I N DOLent.

E NOLent. And Indolent is a word that means quite simply to be lazy. To want to

avoid activity or exertion, Synonyms are lazy, idle, slothful, loafing, do nothing, languid,

underactive, sluggish or lethargic. The origin of this word like so many of the

words we look at is is Latin, and it means not feeling pain.

In at the start of words often means not, and the doleent part comes from a Latin word doleri, I'm not sure how you pronounce that,

de lary I think, which means to suffer or give pain. So in meaning not and delairi mean not to suffer not to have pain. So the idea of laziness as avoiding pain which in many cases you might avoid pain by being lazy.

But probably if you're lazy on a consistent basis, you're probably going to get more pain in the future so it probably doesn't work

that well anyway indolent yeah so try and think of up some examples of when you've been indolent or when perhaps someone else has been

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