Episode 62: In the world of words, we're no longer neophytes
English Vocab by Victorprep
Sam Fold
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2017
⏱️ 14 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The words for today are: Wraith, Neophyte, Impetuous, Partisan.
VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helping you prepare for your standardized tests!
This podcast isn't only intended for those studying for the GRE or SAT, but also for people who enjoy learning, and especially those who want to improve their English skills.
I run the podcast for fun and because I want to help people out there studying for tests or simply learning English.
The podcast covers a variety of words and sometimes additionally covers word roots. Using a podcast to prep for the verbal test lets you study while on the go, or even while working out!
If you have comments or questions and suggestions, please contact me at @SamFold or send me an email at sam@victorprep.com
Check out the podcast website at VictorPrep.com or the Facebookpage at Facebook.com/victorpreplearning
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Sam here. I'm going to start this podcast with another poem. This is Invictus. |
| 0:10.0 | Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole. |
| 0:16.3 | I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul. |
| 0:22.0 | In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludginings |
| 0:29.1 | of chance my head is bloody but unbowed. |
| 0:33.0 | Beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade, |
| 0:39.0 | And yet the menace of the years, finds and shall find me unafraid. |
| 0:46.0 | It matters not how straight the gate, |
| 0:49.0 | how charged with punishments the scroll, |
| 0:52.0 | I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. |
| 0:59.2 | So guys, that was Invictus by William Ernest Henley, absolutely amazing and wonderful and |
| 1:06.3 | inspiring poem. |
| 1:07.3 | I think that they have that this poem in the movie Dead Poet Society that had Robin Williams in. I think they had this |
| 1:14.8 | poem in there. But anyway, absolutely amazing poem. This is episode 62 and |
| 1:21.3 | let's get started by covering the words from the previous |
| 1:27.2 | podcast. Those were Spartan, Spartan, that is showing indifference to comfort and luxury, living in a harsh or |
| 1:38.1 | strict or frugal way. |
| 1:40.9 | Imper, That means to damage or to weaken something, often a human faculty, like memory. If your memory is impaired, your memory is weakened or reduced. |
| 1:56.0 | Impecunious, imprecunious, that means having no money being poor. And our final word from last time was amalgamate. |
| 2:07.0 | Amalgamate. That means to combine or unite to form one structure or one thing, one organization. |
| 2:17.0 | Before we get started with the new words, |
| 2:19.0 | I just want to plug my YouTube channel, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sam Fold, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Sam Fold and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

