Peter Sokolowski
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1,510 appearances
96 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3d ago
Peter Sokolowski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The gap between romantic expectation and mundane reality, frankly, never ceases to amaze this team.
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France somehow get better on paper with every tournament.
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Talent keeps coming through at a relentless, invidious rate.
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If invidious reminds you of the word insidious,
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meaning gradually or subtly causing harm, you've got a nose for negativity, at least the lexical kind.
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It's not that using the word invidious will harm you gradually, but that both words, in addition to rhyming and coming from Latin, are all about bad vibes.
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The two are otherwise unrelated.
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Insidious comes from the Latin word insidii, meaning ambush, while invidious is instead a relative of envy,
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and comes from the verb invidere, meaning to look askance at or to envy.
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The link between envy and invidious is largely invisible today, as invidious is typically applied to that which is unpleasant, such as an invidious position, or is likely to cause harm or resentment, as in invidious comparisons or invidious discrimination.
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With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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Visit Merriam-Webster.com today for definitions, wordplay, and trending word lookups.
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It's the word of the day podcast for August sixth.
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Today's word is torpor, spelled T O R P O R.
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Torpor is a noun.
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It's a formal word for a state of inactivity and sluggishness.
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It can also be used, especially in the context of hibernating and estivating animals, to refer to a state of lowered physiological activity.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from The Conversation by Tara Hohoff.
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Especially during migration in the spring and fall, bats can get tired.
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If they are caught in a cold snap, they can go into torpor, like a mini hibernation, to help survive the cold period when there aren't insects available to eat for energy.
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