English Vocab by Victorprep
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
136: Advanced English Vocab: Impasse, Supersede, Inimical, Deleterious
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Impasse, Supersede, Inimical, Deleterious VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while hel...
Bonus Poetry: Ode To The West Wind - Percy Bysshe Shelley
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bonus Poetry Episode: Ode To The West Wind - Percy Bysshe Shelley VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while help...
135: Advanced English Vocab: Grievous, Saturate, Abase, Chauvinist
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Grievous, Saturate, Abase, Chauvinist VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helping...
134: Advanced English Vocab: Numismatics, Ambiguous, Peregrinate, Banal
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Numismatics, Ambiguous, Peregrinate, Banal VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while he...
English Vocabulary Test 13 (Episodes 121-130)
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Word Test for the following Episodes and Words. 121: Abdicate, Forestall, Phalanx, Distaff 122: Goad, Chaos, Fledgling, Frenetic 123: Immutable, Di...
133: Advanced English Vocab. Invective, Imbue, Ribald, Levee
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Invective, Imbue, Ribald, Levee. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helping yo...
132: Getting Ebullient About English
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Slake, Denigrate, Vituperative, Ebullient Featuring Preludes by TS Eliot VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for Engl...
131: Gimble in the Wabe
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Probity, Gradation, Dirge, Facilitate Featuring Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for ...
English Vocabulary Test 12 (Episodes 111-120)
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Word Test for the following Episodes and Words. 111: Articulate, Dilate, Refute, Dogma 112: Impervious, Impassive, Enumerate, Effrontery 113: ...
130: That's How The Light Gets In
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Dupe, Decorous, Lapidary, Coterie Featuring a Leonard Cohen's lyrics to Anthem. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving...
129: Some Friday Words for My Estimable Listeners
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Talon, Estimable, Coalesce, Stentorian VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helpin...
128: GRE Words for Reprobates filled with Bonhomie
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Satiate, Reprobate, Quixotic, Bonhomie Featuring a quote from Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes VictorPrep's vocab podcast i...
127: The Acme of English Language Podcasts...!
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Erratic, Acme, Occlude, Grandiloquent Featuring a quote from James Hollis from "What Matters Most" VictorPrep's vocab podcast...
126: Burnish Your English Skills Here!
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Stasis, Burnish, Diffident, Prescient Featuring the poem "Often Rebused, Yet Always Back Returning" by Emily Bronte. VictorPr...
English Vocabulary Test 11 (Episodes 101-110)
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Word Test for the following Episodes and Words. 101: Viscous, Apprise, Meticulous,Investiture 102: Trenchant, Syncopation, Supplant, Kinetic 103: Inco...
125: Too Many Demagogues
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Cabal, Unequivocal, Salubrious, Demagogue VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while hel...
124: Wily Strategems and August Owls
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: August, Florid, Prevaricate, Wily Featuring a quote from Letters To a Young Poet by Ranier Rilke VictorPrep's vocab podcast i...
123: Inculcating a Love for Language
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Immutable, Disabuse, Inculcate, Pejorative Featuring a poem: October by Patrick Kavanagh VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for im...
Word Test 10 (Episodes 91-100)
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Word Test for the following Episodes and Words. 91: Convoluted, Opprobrium, Incarnadine, Impious 92: Secrete, Plucky, Autonomous, Sanction 93: Credulo...
122: Word Alchemy Within!
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Goad, Chaos, Fledgling, Frenetic VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helping you ...
121: A Phalanx in the Army of Language Lovers
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Abdicate, Forestall, Phalanx, Distaff Featuring a quote from Jorge Luis Borges. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving f...
120: A Discordant Orchestra of Mercurial Parrots
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Mollify, Mercurial, Compendium, Discordant Featuring a quote from, Jean-Paul Sartre's book "Words" VictorPrep's vocab podcast...
119: A Paucity of Sycophants
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Insinuate, Sycophant, Jingoism, Paucity Featuring a quote from Marcus Aurelius: "Meditations" VictorPrep's vocab podcast is f...
118: A Good Gold Star By Your Name
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Diffuse, Disparage, Magnate, Solipsism. Featuring a poem: "In Mrs Tilscher's Class" Carol Ann Duffy VictorPrep's vocab podcas...
117: Glower at those who Vex you
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Jocular, Idolatry, Vex, Glower VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helping you pr...
116: Aldermen, Adjutants, and Aunts
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Sedition, Intransigence, Indeterminate, Fortuitous Featuring a poem: "After Goliath" by Kingsley Amis VictorPrep's vocab podc...
115: Heroic, not manic, Mondays
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Volatile, Affected, Qualified, Effigy Featuring a quote from Beowulf (unknown author!) VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for impr...
114: Languid Exponents and Fine Repasts
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Repast, Desultory, Languid, Exponent Featuring a quote from Harold Bloom from "How to Read and Why" VictorPrep's vocab podcas...
113: Malleus Maleficarum
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Conventional, Fatuous, Repose, Malleable. Quote taken from The Idiot by Dostoyevsky VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improvi...
112: Impassive in the face of Effrontery
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Impervious, Impassive, Ennumerate, Effrontery Quote taken from The Tombs of Attuan by Ersula K Leguin VictorPrep's vocab podc...
111: I saw a man this morning
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Articulate, Dilate, Refute, Dogma Featuring the Poem "I Saw a Man this Morning" by Patrick Shaw-Stewart VictorPrep's vocab po...
110: Can a podcast lie fallow?
01 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Corroborate, Specious, Pathological, Fallow VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while h...
109: Some post Thanksgiving winsomeness!
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Chicanery, Winsome, Proliferate, Tacit VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helpin...
108: Become a wizened, word wizard!
20 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Wizened, Anomaly, Tangential, Jettison VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helpin...
107: I once bilked a man out of his finest words
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Indigent, Bilk, Naive, Acidulous VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helping you ...
106: Not Listening to this Podcast Could be seen as an Unconscionable act.
09 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Mores, Boorish, Unconscionable, Aver VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helping ...
105: My friends would tell you I am absolutely NOT laconic...
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Laconic, Interregnum, Dissolution, Posit VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while help...
104: Enjoy some ostentatious Halloween costumes!
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Ostentation, Insurrection, Permeate, Rescind VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while ...
103: Four weird words, number four will shock you.
18 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Incorporate, Belie, Elegy, Foment Today's quote is from The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is ...
102: Some magical words
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Trenchant, Syncopation, Kinetic, Supplant. Today's quote is from The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann VictorPrep's vocab podcast...
101: A New Beginning!
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Viscous, Apprise, Meticulous, Investiture Today's quote is from Ths Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau VictorPrep's voc...
Mega Test - 100 episodes, 400 words!
15 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Epic test after 100 episodes of the podcast! 400 beautiful words... This has been promised for some time, and I finally delivered. Please enjoy and I ...
Special Episode: Where I've been
12 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hey Guys! It's been some time, months, since my last podcast. I wanted to record a few thoughts for you guys on what's happened since my last recordin...
Bonus Episode! Poetry time.
24 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate VictorPrep's 100th episode, today Sam reads one of his favorite poems, The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock by T S Eliot. Enjoy!
100: What a long strange trip it's been.
23 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Exculpate, Homogeneous, Engender, Dither. Today's quote is from The Lord of The Rings, by Tolkien VictorPrep's vocab podcast ...
99: I really eclipsed myself with today's word selection
22 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Querulous, Zealot, Mendicant, Cosset. Today's quote is from Sigmund Freud VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for Eng...
98: Monday isn't the right day for soporific podcasts...
21 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Profligate, Keen, Nettle, Soporific. Today's quote is from Game of Thrones by G.R.R Martin VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for ...
97: Buttress your friends and their love will never waver
17 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Distend, Buttress, Repudiate, Waver. Today's quotes are from Heraclitus, Greek philosopher. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for...
96: Wake up on Monday morning with a seraphic smile on your face...
14 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Inexorable, Seraphic, Dissemble, Vestige. Today's quote is taken from The Pale King by David Foster Wallace VictorPrep's...
95: Don't be afraid to be aberrant!
09 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Wanton, Dichotomy, Aberrant, Blight. Today's quote is taken from The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell Victor...
94: Languages are lovely, not a contentious statement...
08 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Apocryphal, Oblique, Contention, Disparate. Today's quote is taken from Demian by Herman Hesse. VictorPrep's vocab podcas...
93: The soft stars that shine at night
04 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Credulous, Condone, Accretion, Hapless. Today's poem is Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep by Mary Elizabeth Frye VictorPr...
92: Plucky Brit lands plane on beach...
03 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Secrete, Plucky, Autonomous, Sanction Today's quote is from James Hollis: What Matters Most VictorPrep's vocab podcast is...
91: Time to rock my incarnadine sneakers...
01 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Convoluted, Opprobrium, Incarnadine, Impious. Today's quote is from Epictetus's: Enchiridion VictorPrep's vocab podcast i...
Word Test 9 (Episodes 81-90)
31 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
81: Belfry, Abeyance. Substantiate, Eschew. 82: Welter, Calumny, Flag, Noisome 83: Tortuous, Surfeit, Anachronism, Leery 84: Abjure, Cartography, Mi...
90: Someday I'll get some kudos for knowing so many words...
27 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Inquest, Arrogate, Kudos, Martinet. Today's quote is from Carl Jung. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for Engli...
89: They'll love you more for what you did
21 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Exigency, Variegated, Diffidence, Nascent. Today's poem is Television by Roald Dahl. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for imp...
88: When we're done, we'll know a panoply of words.
20 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Spectrum, Rejoinder, Panoply, Verbose. Today's quote is from Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake. "When any civilization is d...
87: We're from Earth, but ET was an extraterrestrial!
19 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Terrestrial, Canard, Warranted, Amulet. Today's quote is from Seneca, the Roman philosopher, author of "Letters From a Sto...
86: All these episodes and still not a connoisseur of words yet
18 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Connoisseur, Droll, Inchoate, Refractory. Today's quote is from Being and Time by Martin Heidegger VictorPrep's vocab pod...
85: Don't malinger on a maudlin Monday morning...
17 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Maudlin, Deride, Malinger, Gestation. Today's quote is from Soren Kierkegaard, from the book The Present Age. VictorPrep's...
84: The best poems can seem almost divine
14 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Abjure, Cartography, Mirth, Divine. Poem of the day: A Garden by the Sea by William Morris VictorPrep's vocab podcast is f...
83: I sometimes wonder if my haircut is an anachronism...
13 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Tortuous, Surfeit, Anachronism, Leery Quote of the day taken by The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham VictorPrep's vocab podcas...
82: It's ok to flag a little, just don't ever give up.
12 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Calumny, Welter, Noisome, Flag Quote of the day taken by Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart VictorPrep's vocab po...
81: Bats in the belfry...
11 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Belfry, Abeyance, Substantiate, Eschew Quote of the day taken from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery VictorPre...
Word Test 8 (Episodes 71-80)
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode tests the listener on the words learned in the eighth set of ten episodes of the podcast (71-80). VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for imp...
80: The kids are getting restive before the weekend...
07 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Meretricious, Fallacious, Restive, Deface Poem of the day: Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe VictorPrep's vocab podcast is fo...
79: Try to have a proclivity for being beneficent, but not for being pedantic...
06 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Racalcitrant, Beneficent, Proclivity, Pedantic Quote of the day taken from Ralph Waldo Emerson VictorPrep's vocab podcast...
The word gang are perennially learning new words
05 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Perennial, Fawn, Supposition, Amortize. Quote of the day taken from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's book, Love in the time of Cho...
The only ones for me are the mad ones...
03 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Pervasive, Plebeian, Inured, Embellish. Quote of the day taken from Jack Kerouac's "On the Road." VictorPrep's vocab podc...
One might say that Hamlet was quite irresolute!
30 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Precursor, Irresolute, Umbrage, Stipulate. Quote of the day taken from Hamlet. "What a piece of work is a man!" VictorPrep...
Oh listeners, be candid with me and I'll be candid with you!
29 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Lampoon, Candid, Castigate, Catholic. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helpi...
Here's to a day hopefully filled with levity.
28 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Plummet, Vituperate, Levity, Alacrity. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while help...
Give me something original, not simply platitudes!
27 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Tyro, Verdant, Abate, Platitude. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helping yo...
The words boor and boar aren't as different in meaning as you might think...
26 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Obsequious, Lionize, Paragon, Boor. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helping...
Be an itinerant, travel the world, but never forget where you came from!
23 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Itinerant, Encomium, Assail, Redress. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helpi...
Word Test 7 (Episodes 61-70)
22 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode tests the listener on the words learned in the seventh set of ten episodes of the podcast (61-70). VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for imp...
I've a penchant for words, tea, and people with spirit.
21 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Penchant, Contumacious, Catalyst, Expurgate. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills whil...
Dare to be an iconoclast.
20 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Ersatz, Declivity, Veracious, Iconoclast. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while h...
Don't be perfunctory about your life.
16 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Erudite, Sinecure, Sage, Perfunctory. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helpi...
We've learned a plethora of words together.
15 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Plethora, Sportive, Ingenuous, Causality. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while h...
We're the elocution gang.
14 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Tawdry, Torpor, Eloquent, Grovel. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helping y...
Episode 65: Today's goal - aggrandize yourself up a bit!
13 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Appropriate, Sybarite, Aggrandize, Stratagem. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills whi...
Episode 64: Sam prattles about more words...
12 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Insularity, Onerous, Reproach, Prattle. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while hel...
Episode 63: Be skeptical, but not cynical!
08 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Guile, Sceptic, Negate, Prodigal. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helping...
Episode 62: In the world of words, we're no longer neophytes
21 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Wraith, Neophyte, Impetuous, Partisan. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while help...
Episode 61: Fight the GRE test like a spartan!
21 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Spartan, Impair, Impecunious, Amalgamate. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while hel...
Word Test 6 (Episodes 51-60)
16 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode tests the listener on the words learned in the sixth set of ten episodes of the podcast (51-60). VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for impro...
Episode 60: It's not a big deal ok, just a peccadillo
09 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Arbitrary, Efficacy, Truculent, Peccadillo. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while h...
Episode 59: Make your life anything but mundane!
08 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Arbitrate, Mundane, Propriety, Shard. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helping...
Episode 58: Distilling down the knowledge for you
07 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Doctrinaire, Distill, Pedant, Invidious. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while help...
Episode 57: This podcast is replete with wordy goodness
06 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Loquacious, Prudence, Replete, Impede. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helpin...
Episode 56: Strut around and show off your words!
27 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Implode, Strut, Pragmatic, Contentious. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helpi...
Episode 55: I hide the best words in a coffer under my bed.
25 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Mitigate, Coffer, Antagonize, Garrulous. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while help...
Episode 54: This podcast is the opposite of insipid!
24 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Artless, Insipid, Garner, Enigma. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helping you...
Episode 53: Fly away on my zephyr.
20 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Mendacious, Fractious, Lassitude, Zephyr. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while hel...
Episode 52: Not morose while I'm learning words.
19 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Eulogy, Libertine, Pare, Morose. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helping you ...
Episode 51: Sagacious people listen to this podcast.
18 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Cupidity, Digression, Opine, Sagacious. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helpi...
Word Test 5 (Episodes 41-50)
11 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode tests the listener on the words learned in the fifth set of ten episodes of the podcast (41-50). VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for impro...
Episode 50: Be lavish with your friends!
06 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The words for today are: Complaisant, Yoke, Lavish, Abyss. VictorPrep's vocab podcast is for improving for English vocabulary skills while helping you...