One might say that Hamlet was quite irresolute!
English Vocab by Victorprep
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🗓️ 30 June 2017
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The words for today are: Precursor, Irresolute, Umbrage, Stipulate.
Quote of the day taken from Hamlet. "What a piece of work is a man!"
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there. It's Friday. Amazing. And I'm off work, which is great. I took off Friday and Monday and because Tuesday is July the 4th aka American Independence Day means I have a five day |
| 0:16.8 | weekend which is pleasing to me. |
| 0:21.4 | So let's let's quickly get started by reviewing the words from yesterday. |
| 0:26.0 | So we had Lampoon, Candid, Castagate and Catholic. |
| 0:32.0 | Start with Lampoon. To Lampoon someone or to Lampoon something is to publicly |
| 0:37.9 | criticize by ridiculing or using sarcasm or irony means to mock or to satirize. |
| 0:48.0 | Candid, candid, that means to be truthful and straightforward, to be frank. |
| 0:55.0 | Castigate, |
| 0:56.7 | Castigate, to castigate someone means to reprimand them severely, |
| 1:01.1 | to tell them off in a strong harsh way. And our final word from |
| 1:06.5 | yesterday was Catholic, Catholic, and Catholic means including a wide variety of things, or all embracing. |
| 1:17.0 | So a Catholic taste in music means you like all sorts of different kinds of music. So you could say an eclectic taste in music. |
| 1:26.7 | So you know I originally was thinking recently that Friday could be Poetry Friday. So on Fridays I read a poetry rather than just simply a |
| 1:36.4 | quote. And so today I was thinking yeah I'll find a nice poem but then I thought maybe why not some Shakespeare because a lot of his |
| 1:47.5 | writing is like poetry anyway so I'm going to read a bit from one of my favorite speeches from Hamlet which is from Hamlet Act 2, |
| 1:57.6 | seen 2 and this is Hamlet talking. I have of late but wherefore I know not lost all my mirth forgone all custom of exercises, and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this |
| 2:19.6 | goodly frame the earth seems to me a stale pomantry. |
| 2:25.3 | This most excellent canopy the air. |
| 2:28.9 | Look you, this brave overhanging firmament, this majestic roof. This the thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a man! |
| 2:49.4 | How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty, in form and moving, how express an admirable, in action how |
| 3:01.5 | like an angel, in apprehension how like a god, the beauty of the world, |
| 3:09.8 | the paragon of animals and yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? |
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