Episode 45: The most important words are the hardest to say.
English Vocab by Victorprep
Sam Fold
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🗓️ 3 May 2016
⏱️ 12 minutes
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The words for today are: Metamorphosis, Elicit, Maverick,Cacophonous
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, this is Sam, and I'd like to start off this episode with a quote, and the source |
| 0:06.4 | of this quote might surprise you. The most important things are the hardest to say. |
| 0:15.2 | They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish them. Words shrink things that seem limitless when they were in your head |
| 0:21.1 | to know more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? |
| 0:27.6 | The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried. |
| 0:32.2 | Like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to |
| 0:34.9 | steal away. |
| 0:36.7 | You may make revelations that cost you dearly, only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought |
| 0:45.8 | it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think, |
| 0:52.0 | when the secret stays locked within, not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear. |
| 0:59.0 | So I read this recently and I loved it so much and wanted to share it and in fact the writer of that |
| 1:07.0 | particular piece was Stephen King which surprised me when I heard it. |
| 1:13.5 | This is Sam and this is episode 45 of the Victor Prep |
| 1:19.2 | Vocal Podcast. |
| 1:21.6 | Our previous words were sacrosanct, hegemony, salient, and intractable. Sacrosanct, meant something that is regarded as being too important or too valuable to be interfered with or altered. |
| 1:39.0 | Hedgymy, that means leadership or dominance, usually by one social group over another social group or one country over another country. |
| 1:51.0 | Salient. salient, salient, that means the most noticeable thing or important. |
| 2:00.0 | And our last word was intractable. |
| 2:04.0 | Intractable. |
| 2:05.8 | That means hard to control or deal with. |
| 2:10.2 | So now it's time for our new words and our first new word is metamorphosis. Metamorphosis, it's a noun and it's spelled M-E-T-A-M-O-R-P-O-S-I-S-M-T-O-S-M-O-T-O-S-Matamorphosis. |
| 2:31.0 | And this may sound familiar if anyone who's ever studied biology, but metamorphosis means the |
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