Episode 43: Feeling a little contrite.
English Vocab by Victorprep
Sam Fold
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2016
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The words for today are: Tenuous, Disingenuous, Contrite, Inter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, this is Sam, as always, and before I get started with episode 43, I just want to say a few words. |
| 0:10.0 | It's obviously been quite a long time to the last podcast and quite a few of you email me saying |
| 0:16.9 | Is there going to be another podcast? Is the podcast dead? |
| 0:20.5 | etc. |
| 0:29.0 | Truth is my last few months have been a bit turbulent and emotional. I broke up with my girlfriend and there have been some ups and downs and recording the |
| 0:35.5 | podcast wasn't really at the forefront of my mind although I was still getting |
| 0:40.5 | emails some people and I did read them and cared about them. |
| 0:45.0 | And but all that aside, I'm back. I'm feeling a lot happier and settled and I'm going to record more episodes. End of story. So having said that, thank you so |
| 1:00.9 | much for emailing me in these past few months. A lot of people were extremely kind in their words. |
| 1:07.0 | And the long and the short of it is, I'm going to keep making podcast episodes as long as there were words left you know so okay without further |
| 1:18.6 | ado let's review the words from episode 42 if you can remember them. So here's a good test. |
| 1:26.7 | If I remember them, they were indolent. Indolent. That means wanting to avoid activity or exertion, physical exertion, |
| 1:38.0 | means to be lazy. Transgression. Transgression. That means an act that goes against some law or rule. |
| 1:49.0 | Facetious. |
| 1:51.0 | Facetious. That means treating a serious issue with inappropriate humour. |
| 1:59.6 | And juncture, juncture, that means at a particular point in time, |
| 2:05.5 | or a particular point in a series of events. |
| 2:09.3 | Now, it's time for some new words. |
| 2:12.0 | Finally, some new words. Finally, some new words. |
| 2:14.8 | Our first word, episode 43, the Victor Prep Vocal Podcast is tenuous. |
| 2:21.8 | That's spelled T-E-N-U-N-U-N-E-N-G-N-E-N-G-N-E-N-U-O-U-S. |
| 2:27.1 | Tenuous. It's an adjective and it means very weak or slight. Now tenuous is often used when describing a link between two things. |
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