Hello there. Welcome to episode 51, the Victor Prep vocab podcast. To get us in the mood for learning today, first let's start with a quote from Arthur Schopenhauer, who was an amazing German philosopher.

Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.

They are the engines of change windows on the world.

Lighthouses, as the poet said, erected in the sea of time.

They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind.

Books are humanity in print.

Okay, I make an amazing quote to get us started. Let's just quickly review the words from

episode 50. Those were complacent. Complacent. That means willing to please others, being agreeable, willing, cooperative.

Yoke, yoke, that was a thing that attaches a couple of animals together, but yolk

also is regarded as something that is oppressive or burdensome, the yoke of capitalism, for example, lavish, oh and by the way about yoke.

In general, as well as being the thing to attach animals together or use in a metaphorical sense, it can just mean anything that's attaching something to something else.

So the value of the stock market is yoked to the value of the dollar, for example.

So if the dollar falls, the stock market value falls to.

Lavish, that was our third word.

Lavish means sumptuously rich, luxurious,

luxurious,

costly, opulent, or grand.

And our fourth word from last time was Abyss.

And Abyss is a bottomless chasm, a huge pit that you can't see the bottom of, so on. So let's go on to our new words. But actually,

before we do the new words, I just wanted to say something about one of the words from episode 49. That was Maladiction.

Now, Maladiction is often used, meaning to mean a magical word or a curse from a witch or a wizard or something

but obviously it can be used to just mean a regular curse, like someone cursed at you or shouted at you, yelled a curse at you,

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