Episode 48: Don't be lugubrious, learn some words instead.
English Vocab by Victorprep
Sam Fold
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2016
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The words for today are: Eclectic, Disjointed, Lugubrious, Coda.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody this is Sam and this is episode 48 of the Victor Prep |
| 0:06.5 | vocab podcast I'd like to get started with another quote one from one of my |
| 0:11.6 | favorite books. |
| 0:13.0 | Follow me, reader. |
| 0:15.0 | Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world? |
| 0:21.0 | May the liars vile tongue be cut out. Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such |
| 0:28.8 | a love. That's from The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. |
| 0:35.0 | Really, really amazing book. |
| 0:37.1 | So, let's get started with our words. |
| 0:41.3 | In our last episode we covered Ford commensurate, imprecation and politic. |
| 0:50.0 | Ford, that means a shallow place in a river or stream, that would allow you to walk across or get across. |
| 0:59.0 | Commensurate, commensurate, that means corresponding in size or proportion. So the salary was commensurate with your ability. |
| 1:10.0 | Imprecation, imprecation, That means a curse. So maybe shouting something nasty at someone. |
| 1:19.2 | And our final word was politic, |
| 1:22.5 | politic. |
| 1:23.5 | That means wise or sensible. |
| 1:27.5 | If an action is politic, it means, |
| 1:30.4 | given the circumstances it was a wise choice of action or a sensible choice of action. |
| 1:37.0 | We have four new words now and our first new word is eclectic. |
| 1:44.0 | eclectic. |
| 1:45.0 | It's spelled E.C. Lec. T I. |
| 1:51.0 | Eclectic. |
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