Episode 44: Learning words is not an intractable endeavor
English Vocab by Victorprep
Sam Fold
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2016
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The words for today are: Sacrosanct, Hegemony, Salient, Intractable.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there and this is episode 44 of the Victor Prep vocab podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Those of you who have been paying attention may notice that this podcast is coming quite soon after the last one and not six months after. |
| 0:17.5 | So two thumbs up there I think. |
| 0:21.7 | So before we get started, let's cover the words from the previous episode. |
| 0:27.0 | Those were tenuous, tenuous, that means very weak or slight, a tenuous link between two things. |
| 0:38.0 | Dis ingenuous, disingenuous, that means not being sincere, maybe not being truthful, maybe hiding something that you know. |
| 0:50.0 | Contrite. That means to be affected by guilt, to feel remorse. |
| 0:59.2 | And our final word from last time was, inter, inter inter that means to place a corpse or dead body in a grave or tomb |
| 1:09.3 | usually that's part of a funeral. |
| 1:19.0 | So, episode 44, I am Samfold. This is the Victor Pep Voker podcast, |
| 1:21.2 | and our first new word is sacrosanct. Sacrosanct. That's spelled |
| 1:28.9 | S-A-C-R-O-S-A-C-R-O-S-A-N-C-O-S-A-N-C-S-C-T-S-C-C-T-S-C-C-C-S-C-R-S-C-S-R-S-A-S-R-S-C-C-S-A-S-C-T-C-S-C-R-S-C-E-C-T, Sankt, sounds, well the start of the word sounds a bit like sacred, sacrosanct, sacred, they mean similar things. |
| 1:49.0 | If something is sacrosanct, it's regarded as being too important or too valuable to change or too |
| 1:59.5 | important to be interfered with. So if you're a writer and perhaps you're the most famous writer in the world |
| 2:08.0 | and whenever you write a book it's almost regarded as a holy thing because it's so amazing, so beautiful, and there's no editor in the world that wants to change your writing, it's considered so amazing. So they might say your work is sacrosanct. |
| 2:28.0 | It's just too good or too amazing to be changed or to be messed with, rather. |
| 2:35.0 | Often sacrosanct is used when talking about some principle. |
| 2:40.0 | So in America, they have the right to free speech which means any person anywhere anytime can say what they want |
| 2:49.9 | That is the right to free speech and the right to free speech in America is considered sacrosanct. |
| 2:55.4 | It's considered such an important right, such a thing that's fundamental to America and the |
| 3:02.4 | spirit of America that to fundamental to |
| 3:04.4 | change that or to remove that right is just impossible. It's unthinkable. Some synonyms of sacrosanct are sacred. |
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