125: Too Many Demagogues

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Sam Fold

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🗓️ 5 October 2023

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The words for today are: Cabal, Unequivocal, Salubrious, Demagogue

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, this is Sam, and this is episode 125 of the VictorPrep Vocal Podcast.
0:09.6	And today I have, sadly, no quote or poetry for you, I have a really bad headache, and
0:17.8	my brain isn't working so well today, so normally I put in a bit of time to do some research
0:25.1	and find a really good quote or poem for you, but it was just not possible, not possible
0:29.9	today. So sorry about that. Now let's review the words from yesterday quickly. So we had
0:37.7	August, Florida, pre-varicate, and widely. So August, when describing a person, means respected
0:50.0	and impressive, and especially used for those of high rank or stature, but it can also be
0:57.2	used to describe something that evokes a sense of grandeur or reverence. Florida, Florida,
1:06.2	that means having a red or a flushed complexion, but can also mean something that is excessively
1:12.8	intricate or elaborate, so a florid painting, for example, pre-varicate, pre-varicate, that
1:22.9	is to speak or act in an evasive manner. And finally, we had a wily, to be wily is to be
1:32.0	skilled at gaining some advantage, especially in a deceitful way. Okay, so now onto the new
1:41.5	words. And our first word for today is Kabal. Kabal. And it is spelled C-A-B-A-L, and it's a
1:50.8	noun, and a Kabal is a secret political function or a political click. So it's a group of people
2:00.4	who are grouped together because they all support some sort of political cause, but the critical
2:07.2	factor is that it's a secret political group. So usually when you have a Kabal, because it's
2:15.0	a secret political group, there's an implication that this Kabal is up to no good. I.e. they're
2:21.8	doing something that may be illegal, or they have some plans that they want to keep it in, because
2:28.4	if it were known that they were planning this thing, they might be arrested, and so on. So you
2:33.9	might have a Kabal in a country or a place where there was a very authoritarian government,
2:40.8	because that authoritarian government simply doesn't allow there to be competing political parties.
2:47.1	And the classic example of a Kabal in British history is that of Guy Forks and the gunpowder plot,
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