Hello there this is Sam and this is episode 103 with the Victor Prep

vocab podcast I'm going to start off today's episode with a quick quote from

Dostevsky and this is taken from the book the brothers

caramars of. Above all do not lie to yourself a man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him.

Thus he falls into disrespect towards himself and others. And not respecting

anyone, he ceases to love. Okay, so let's get started now by reviewing the words from episode 102.

So we had Trenchant, that means to be vigorous or incisive in style or expression, to be penetrating or sharp,

syncopation, syncopation. or shop. Synccipation, that means in music a shifting of the normal accented beats.

Supplant, that means to supersede and replace something or to take over

from. And the final word was kinetic, kinetic, that means relating to motion or resulting from motion.

All right then, let's get started with our new words. Our first word today is incorporate. Incorporate. That's a verb and it's spelled I n c o r P O R A T E, Inc, to Incorporated.

To Incorporated something means to take in or contain something as part of a whole or to include. So let's say you're with a bunch of your

coworkers or students or something and you're coming up with some sort of

project idea and so you've written out this project idea that someone comes up with some new idea that they want to bring into this project.

You could incorporate that idea as part of that project.

So you're taking in their idea

and making it a part of this bigger hole.

Often you might hear of a company incorporating some other company into this bigger

company this bigger entity. Some synonyms that incorporate are absorb, include, subsume, assimilate, or integrate.

Our second word today is elegy, elegy, spelled eelaely, eelgy,

e y, elegy, it's a noun and it has a fairly simple meaning and so an elegy is a poem of some serious reflection and usually it's associated with being a lament for the debt. So the most

common use for this is in a poem that's read at a funeral, for example, or a poem that's read at some sort of memorial event or some memorial occasion. So if there is some sort of, you know, like say a Veterans Day and where you're

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