Hey guys if you're listening to this you are listening to episode 70 of Victor Prep vocab

Podcast let's review the words from last time.

Er sets, er sets.

That's usually describing some product or a thing, and it's a substitute,

usually an inferior one for something else, like Ursat sugar or Ursat's

Coca-Cola. Declivity. Declivity means a downward slope. That's it, really.

Veracious. That means speaking or representing the truth.

Note to contrast that with voracious, meaning extremely hungry.

And our last word was iconoclast, iconoclast, iconoclast,

iconoclast simply being a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions,

someone who goes against the norm.

So this is episode 70, and I'm going to start with a quote from Jane Austin,

and this is from the novel Pride and Prejudice.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the

will of others.

My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

So before I get started today I just want to say a few things because I got an email from one of the listeners who was saying hey Sam

seems like you're always trying to learn new things and you know you do this

podcast and you're trying to learn new words and whatever

and how do you how do you find the effort or the will to keep going because it's

because I guess they were implying that they find it hard to keep studying sometimes and want to give up.

And you know I thought a lot about this and it's a really good question and because sometimes I don't want to do

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