Hello there this is Sam and this is episode 57 of the Victor Prep vocab

podcast and first let's review the words from episode 56. First word was implode. Implode, that means to collapse or cause to collapse violently inwards.

Strut, to Strut is to walk in an apparently arrogant or conceited way. It's a very confident style of walking.

It's similar to swaggering or walking like a peacock.

Pragmatic,

to be pragmatic means to deal thing,

deal with things in a sensible or realistic way or in a way that is practical rather than based

on theory or theoretical considerations or in an idealistic way.

And our final word from the last time was contentious.

Contentious.

Something that is contentious is likely to cause an argument, something that's controversial or something that's

disputed.

So before we get started on the new words, I'd like to read a quote from the writer Hermann Hessel.

He was a German writer and he's written a lot of amazing books, but the best one to start with I think is Siddhartha, which is great.

So give him a look. Amazing writer.

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping,

to smile without hostility at people and institutions,

to compensate for the shortage of love in the world

with more love in small private matters, to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forego the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism. All these are things we can do.

So it's time for our new words and let's start with loquacious loquacious it's spelled L-o-o-q u-a-c-c-u-a-c-e-o-u-u-a-C-I-O-U-S, loquacious. Now, sounds very complicated and looks complicated, but has a very simple meaning. It simply means to talk a lot, to be talkative.

You may remember that we had another word recently that meant something similar which was Garilous that was Garilous

and loquacious means similar loquacious has a meaning that is a bit more straightforward than Garilous because Garilous has the

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