Hello there and welcome to episode 8 of the Victor Prep Folkair podcast. It's another wonderful and lovely day in Southern California and let's start with going over the previous episodes words. Those were demure, debutant, propitiate, and tody. That's demure, Debutont, Proppitiate, and Todie. So the drill is the same as always.

Hopefully you've remembered those words. But I'm going to go over them now, and if you are having trouble remembering,

please listen to the podcast again, and especially go through your example sentences.

Think up some new sentences.

That's how you really drill the meaning into your brain so

demure that means to make an objection especially if you think something is morally

wrong so you've taken exception to something if you think something is morally wrong.

So you've taken exception to something,

you think something is wrong,

because you have doubts about it.

You have some moral scruples.

Debutant, that is a young woman, usually upper class, perhaps wealthy, and she's making her first

appearance in society. She's making her debut into society that is a debutant.

Propiciate. Propiciate means to win the favour of someone, often in literature that could be a god or a spirit,

often if you use it in one day it will be a person.

So you do something nice for someone, do something good to someone to win their favour,

or often to regain their favour.

So you may have angered someone and you want to make them happy again so you do something nice to them.

And final word from last time was tody and a toady is a person who behaves very overly friendly, overly nice to someone important.

They're almost doing too much because they want something and it's a rather negative word. so being a toadie is not a good thing

usually so when that word is used in literature in novels or in speech it often implies

something negative those who are words from last time. Let's go on and learn some

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