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English Vocab by Victorprep

Episode 46: Follow your bliss

English Vocab by Victorprep

Sam Fold

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2016

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The words for today are: Guileless, Bifurcate, Anodyne, Pariah

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi there, this is Sam and this is episode 46 of the Victor Prep Vocal Podcast.

0:07.0

I'm going to start off today's episode with a quote from one of my favorite writers, a guy called Joseph Campbell.

0:15.0

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all a while, waiting for you.

0:23.0

And the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

0:27.0

Follow your bliss and don't be afraid.

0:30.0

And doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

0:35.0

Let's start now with reviewing the words from episode 45.

0:39.0

Those were metamorphosis.

0:42.0

Now metamorphosis means the process of transformation from one form into another form often

0:48.6

use we'd say an insect like a caterpillar metamorphosizing into a butterfly.

0:55.0

But it can also mean a person metamorphosizing, a person changing.

1:01.0

Illicit means to evoke or draw out, usually a reaction. You could elicit a reaction from someone if you make them left, for example.

1:11.0

Maverick. A Maverick is an unorthodox or independent person, a person who is quite

1:19.0

different or very individual. And the final word from that episode was

1:25.1

Kukophonous.

1:26.8

Kukophonous.

1:28.0

That is involving or producing a harsh mixture of sounds. If you imagine a whole variety of animals all making their own

1:36.8

sounds at the same time, that would be a cacophonous sound. Our first word is guileless, guileless. That's spelled guile

1:49.4

I-L-E-L-E-S-S-S-G-L-S-S S Gileless. Now this is an adjective and it means innocent or someone who wouldn't

2:04.7

wouldn't deceive you.

2:07.9

So if you imagine a child, especially younger children,

2:12.4

you could definitely say that most young children are guileless.

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