Episode 55: I hide the best words in a coffer under my bed.
English Vocab by Victorprep
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🗓️ 25 January 2017
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The words for today are: Mitigate, Coffer, Antagonize, Garrulous.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there guys so this is episode 55 of the Victor Prep |
| 0:08.5 | vocab podcast I'm going to start with a quote from one of my favorite series of books ever and I feel like I probably tell you guys this all the time that I love this book and I love this book but this really is one of my most loved set of books |
| 0:27.2 | ever it was something I read when I was quite a young kid and it stuck with me ever since and I reread it all the time and yeah you |
| 0:37.4 | know whenever I was lonely as a kid or sad I would just reread the Lord of the |
| 0:41.8 | Rings and so this is a quote from the Lord of the Rings and |
| 0:47.3 | yeah I think it's I mean there's so many amazing quotes from those books I could I could do this all day but there's one particular quote. |
| 0:58.1 | Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check. |
| 1:03.1 | But that is not what I have found. |
| 1:05.2 | I have found that it is the small things. |
| 1:07.8 | Everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. |
| 1:12.4 | Simple acts of kindness and love. |
| 1:17.0 | So let's now review the words from episode 54. |
| 1:22.0 | Those were artless. Artless. That means without guile or deception, someone |
| 1:30.6 | who's natural, simple, maybe a bit naive or innocent. |
| 1:36.0 | When describing something like a piece of art or a song, a picture, whatever, |
| 1:42.0 | it means without skill, without finesse, it's just not very good. |
| 1:47.8 | Incipid, that means lacking flavor. So you have a cup of coffee and it's just too |
| 1:56.0 | weak, there's too much milk in it, you can't really taste the coffee, it's incipid. |
| 2:01.5 | Garno. Garno. That means... Garno, that means to gather or collect and usually that means collecting information |
| 2:10.0 | so garnering information about a crime. |
| 2:15.0 | And enigma, that means a thing or a person that is difficult to understand, puzzle or riddle something that is |
| 2:26.9 | complicated or mysterious. So those were our previous words. Now let's get going with episode 55. So the first word is mitigate, mitigate, that's spelled M-I-T-I-G-A-T-E, mitigate. To mitigate, because it's a verb means to make something less serious or less severe or less painful. So the very easy |
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