117: Glower at those who Vex you
English Vocab by Victorprep
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🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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The words for today are: Jocular, Idolatry, Vex, Glower
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, this is Sam, and today is the 20th of September, it's Wednesday, and we're |
| 0:08.4 | going to do it probably slightly quicker a podcast today because I spent a while reading |
| 0:13.6 | through my curfewonica books to try and find a quote for today, and I just ended up just |
| 0:23.5 | getting kind of lost in reading and spending far too much time trying to find a quote and |
| 0:28.0 | realizing I didn't quite have the right thing, and so yes, there's no quote for today. Yeah, I |
| 0:34.5 | just got into too thoughtful of a mood and couldn't make a decision, so yes, fast or fast or podcast. |
| 0:42.1 | So let's go into just quickly reviewing the words from yesterday, which were sedition, |
| 0:49.7 | intransigence, indeterminate and fortuitous, so sedition that meant conduct or speech actions, |
| 1:00.2 | which were inciting people or encouraging people to rebel against authority. |
| 1:06.1 | Intransigence, intransigence, that is stubbornness, refuse all to change one's views or to |
| 1:13.3 | agree about something. Indeterminate, indeterminate, not exactly known or not well-defined, so think |
| 1:23.7 | about that color that you can't quite explain what it is indeterminate, and finally we had fortuitous, |
| 1:31.6 | fortuitous, that is happening by chance rather than intention, so unexpected, or happening by |
| 1:39.9 | lucky chance to be fortunate. Okay, so now onto the new words, and I think we have four pretty good |
| 1:48.1 | words here today, and our first one is jocular, jocular, spelt's j-o-c-u-l-a-r, and it's an adjective, |
| 2:00.1 | and it means if you describe someone as jocular, because this is almost would be always used for |
| 2:06.0 | describing a person, I'm not sure how you'd ever have a jocular animal, but maybe it's possible. |
| 2:12.1 | Yeah, jocular means fond of joking, or humorous, and playful too, but especially humorous |
| 2:22.0 | likes joking, so if someone is in a jocular mood, means they're in a joking kind of mood that |
| 2:29.4 | being funny, making jokes, or amusing pranks, etc. Pretty easy one to remember, because it has |
| 2:36.1 | the same root as the word joc, which is jocus in Latin, so yeah jocus in Latin is joc, and so jocular |
| 2:46.8 | comes from there, so yes, think of a relative you have who is always making jokes, that jocular |
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