Hello there. This is Sam Fold and this is episode 97 of the Victor Prep

vocab podcast. You know, if you were ever wondering what takes the longest time when I'm planning each podcast, it is 100% finding quotes.

I spend so much time trying to find the right quote for each episode. You wouldn't even believe it.

I just spend ages just going through my books, looking at my books shelves, trying to find the best books, my favorite writers and authors and thinkers,

then spending ages trying to work out what quote I want from that person.

Oh my gosh.

In fact, just actually planning what words I'm going to do and the definitions,

and I think that's easy.

That doesn't take long at all, but wow. Oh my gosh, I'm almost

beginning to regret putting a quote at the start of each episode. Anyway, let's get started. I have a quote. I have two little

quotes for today, but before we get to those, let's do our words from episode 96. So we had inexorable,

seraphic, dissemble, and vestige. So inexorable means impossible to stop or prevent. So unstoppable, inevitable. Seraphic. That means characteristic of seraphim or angels.

Often it's used with something like a seraphic smile or they were, you know, it often implies a sort of a blissful face, you know your

expression is blissful or rapturous or ecstatic.

Dissemble, that means to conceal your true motives or to conceal your true feelings to pretend or to act.

Festage. to pretend or to act.

Vestage.

Vestage is a trace of something that is disappearing or in fact no longer exists.

So a remnant or a relic, a trace. All right gang, so those who are words

from last time and before we get started with the new words, I'm going to do a couple of quotes from Heraclitus.

So if you don't know who Heraclitus is, he is a Greek philosopher and specifically he is one of the philosophers that came before Socrates and

so Socrates was and you may have heard of him but he is the guy who is considered to be

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