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English Vocab by Victorprep

Episode 64: Sam prattles about more words...

English Vocab by Victorprep

Sam Fold

English, Ets, Words, Test, Vocabulary, Gre, Word, Prep, Learning, Vocab, Education, Language Learning, Graduate, Sat, Language, Self-improvement

51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The words for today are: Insularity, Onerous, Reproach, Prattle.

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!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello there. This is Sam and this is episode 64 of the Victor Prep

0:06.1

podcast. It's Sunday night in California, well southern California.

0:10.9

There was a bit of wind today. It was warm, but not that warm. So it was a pretty nice day.

0:18.0

I don't know why I'm talking about the weather but anyway it's episode 64 and the

0:27.2

sprinklers haven't come on yet so it means I can record and let's start with a quote by CS Lewis.

0:35.0

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

0:41.0

And I love this because there are so many times when I've thought I'm I mean and I'm not old right but I've often thought

0:51.6

even in my through all my 20s oh I can't do this now or this path

0:57.8

isn't open to me and then I realized more and more that there were so many people that change career even in their 40s, never mind in their 20s or 30s.

1:08.0

There are people that decide in their 40s or their 50s, I want to be a lawyer now, I want to be a doctor, or I want to write, fight a book, or do anything.

1:17.0

So, whatever age you are, whoever you are, don't ever think that you're too old or even too young to do something.

1:27.2

You know, you're as ready as you think you are.

1:30.5

And if you really want to be a doctor at 50, you can do that.

1:35.0

It just depends on how badly you want it and the work you're willing to put into it.

1:38.3

So yeah, that's our thought for today. So let's review the words from episode 63.

1:48.0

Prodigal, Prodigal. That means spending money or other resources recklessly to be incredibly wasteful to be

1:57.6

extravagant.

1:59.8

Prodigal also can refer to a very specific situation which is a child leaving home or

2:05.3

someone leaving home behaving in a reckless careless way spending all their

2:09.4

inheritance and then coming back and with contrition saying, oh, you know, I'm and dad, I'm so sorry I, you know, left and I spent all the money

2:17.9

will he forgive me? Negate, that means to nullify or to make something ineffective

2:28.0

guile that means means cunning, intelligence, craftiness, wileness, to be devious. And skeptic, skeptic.

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