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Hey everyone. Welcome back to your little drops of high school English

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here on YouTube, We're gonna talk about SAT level vocabulary today.

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But first a huge shout out of awesomeness to Miko Santos,

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the very first student in our year-long experiment

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together to complete the homework on Monday night.

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So, every Monday we do grammar, and you'll do the

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homework by leaving the answers in the comment section.

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And here on Wednesdays, we're gonna do vocab.

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So, Miko thank you so much for being awesome.

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You will always have a place in my heart as

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my very first YouTube student to actually do the homework.

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And by the way, Miko, you did it perfectly. Nice shot. All right.

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So, this episode, today is Wednesday.

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And on Wednesdays, we do words on Wednesday,

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which are always where we go deep on three high level SAT-type words.

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So, back in 2016, the college board, the folks who create the test,

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they did do us all a favor.

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They basically boiled away all the archaic language out of the test, and

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they now use words that working professional, educated adults use in real life.

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And those are the words that I've chosen for you.

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So, I've gone through the SAT recommended word lists, and I've plucked

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out the ones that I think are really useful beyond the test.

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So, even if you're never going to take the SAT, that's fine.

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These words will serve you well,

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in just raising the caliber of your

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conversation when you're in professional correspondence.

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So, each week on Wednesdays, I'm gonna give you three of these words.

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We're gonna go deep on them. We're gonna spend some time on them.

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And the next slide, I will show you what we're doing there.

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In real life, I actually do five every Wednesday,

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but it's YouTube, and I'm trying to keep things kind of tight.

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So, we're gonna do the three words. And as always, I have my list of notes here.

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That's all I needed to say. Let's go on with the show.

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All right. Your first word this week is "edify." It is a verb.

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I'm gonna let you decide what makes sense for your note taking for this.

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If you want to keep it running Google Doc or just write them on flash cards,

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if you want to write parts of what I'm

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talking about or every single word on every slide.

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Basically, I'm a big fan of the pause button.

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So, if you want to pause because I know I talk really quickly, that is totally fine.

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I'm gonna do a deep dive on three words, and

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hopefully, you can start using them in your everyday language.

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All right.

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The first word is edify, as I mentioned,

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which means "to instruct" or "improve" someone morally or intellectually.

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One of my goals is to edify you with all

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kinds of high school English goodness here on the channel.

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And so, that's what I've been doing. As I'm talking about the word,

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I hope that you're bubbling up

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some synonyms

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or antonyms

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that might work. So, I'm going to show you the ones that I've come up with.

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But it's kind of cool if you hit pause, write down your own guesses to a synonym,

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an appropriate antonym, and then see how close you come to mind.

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But as we kind of get into this words on Wednesday routine,

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hopefully, you'll get used to just hitting that pause button,

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writing the slide content, making your guesses,

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and then here we go. So, your first synonym and antonym.

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For synonyms, I'm gonna go green is go and then red is stop for antonym,

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which means opposite.

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So, your synonyms,

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the words that closely mean the same thing would be "to educate" or "to instruct."

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That's kind of what teachers do.

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The antonym, the word that means opposite, would be "to confuse" or "to befuddle."

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Befuddle is another great word.

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I'm almost feeling like these slides are it be more

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than just one word because maybe you just learn the

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word befuddle, and that's a good one, to confuse, just

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to make things really milky cloudy for folks.

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Now, we went to the opposite. We want to edify. All right.

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And then on the second slide, I'll give you, I'm gonna give you my sentence.

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A teacher's main task is to edify her students. Certainly, that's my goal.

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And then, what your assignment is, if you choose to accept

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the challenge, is to leave your own original sentence using edify

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in the comments below. I'll do my best to respond.

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If this channel blows up, which come on,

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it's high school English on YouTube, it's not gonna blow up.

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But if it does, it gets to be too much.

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Maybe you guys can help me out and just monitor each other's sentences. Give them attaboy

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or atta girl.

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If you like the sentence, always school appropriate sentences y'all.

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I got teenagers all over the place on this website. So,

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we wanna go ahead and keep things clean. All right. Second word. Here we go.

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Felicity. Felicity is a noun.

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It is the state of being joyful, so joyfulness or happiness.

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You sometimes might have met a woman. It's a girl's name.

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Felicity with a capital F. Obviously, there was a TV show

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with a curly haired girl.

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I wanna say it was like in the nineties, I should look that up. Felicity.

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It was like a teen drama kind of show.

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But Felicity doesn't necessarily mean a girl.

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It just means joyfulness or happiness. A great deal of felicity.

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Working with you brings me a great deal of felicity.

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All right, synonyms and antonyms. Again,

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don't be afraid to hit pause before I show you mine. Here we go.

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Cheerfulness or delight.

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The opposite, of course, would be sorrow or misery.

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All right, my sentence for this one,

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"my dog yapped and wagged her tail with great felicity

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when I arrived home from school."

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I love my dogs.

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They just, they're like, they're so happy when I come home, you know,

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just nothing but love.

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All right. And I want you hit pause, leave your sentence in the comment section below.

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And here comes our third word of the week.

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Third and final word, veracity.

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Veracity is also a noun means the state of being truthful and straightforward.

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We can verify, you know, if that helps you with the same root right here.

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Veracity means the same as trustworthiness or honesty.

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If someone has a great deal of veracity, we believe them.

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you know, like, I don't know, like a certain,

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I don't know scholars or, you know,

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professors that you have or even some

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celebrities who have a real good moral center.

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We believe them. They show a great deal of veracity.

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Versus the antonym,

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which would be deceit or dishonesty.

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You know, like a used car salesperson does not hold a lot of veracity with me.

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All right, here is my sentence for this one.

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The police doubted the veracity of the suspect's alibi.

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He couldn't prove anything. So, they thought he was lying.

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All right.

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And then, you're gonna leave your third sentence for me in the comments below.

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Let's see how you use veracity, felicity,

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and—oh my gosh, what was our first word—

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man, Laura—edify. There we go, and use edify in a sentence.

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Leave it for me in the comment section below.

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I'll be back on Friday with freestyle Friday.

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Some fun coming at you, a little drop of high school

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English, and then always on Monday with those mug shots,

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mechanics, usage, and grammar.

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All right, like, subscribe, tell a friend, and have a wonderful Wednesday.

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I'll see you guys on Friday. Bye.