Hello there and this is episode 49 of the Victor Prep vocab

podcast going to start with a quote from the Roman Emperor and

philosopher Marcus Aurelius.

Be like a rocky pomantry against which the restless surf continuously pounds.

It stands fast while the churning sea is lull to sleep at its feet. I hear you say,

How unlucky that this should happen to me? Not at all. Say instead, how lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened,

not afraid of what is about to happen. The same blow might have struck anyone, but not many would have absorbed it without

capitulation and complaint. Now let's review the words from episode 48. Those were eclectic. That means deriving a style or ideas from a

broad and diverse range of sources. So you might have eclectic music tastes.

Disjointed, that means something that's lacking a coherent sequence or a connection, so

unconnected or disconnected, perhaps fragmented.

Ligubrious, that means looking or sounding sad,

someone looks tearful, they look lugubrious. And Coda, Coda is the last piece of something,

the concluding passage of a song or the concluding section of a book maybe.

So those were words from episode 48, now it's time for the episode 49 words and it's also the start of a new year and a

long-awaited episode. So I'm excited, it's 2017 and there are some new words and one of my favorite words actually so get pumped.

So our first word for episode 49 is flagmatic.

That's spelled P-H-L-E-G-M-A-T-I-C-E-G-M-A-T-I-C, Flagmetic, so it's got that PH-F sound at the start. And Flagmetic is an adjective and it basically means being calm and unemotional and it's

used to describe people I suppose you could use it to describe other things, but generally speaking,

flagmatic is used to describe a person. So if you say, oh my friend, Jake is really phlegmatic, it means he's cool, calm, and collected.

He's tranquil or impassive.

It's the opposite of someone who is excitable, so an antonym would be excitable.

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