[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.03,0:00:03.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey everyone. Welcome back to your little drops of high school English Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.39,0:00:07.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here on YouTube, We're gonna talk about SAT level vocabulary today. Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.67,0:00:12.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But first a huge shout out of awesomeness to Miko Santos, Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.12,0:00:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the very first student in our year-long experiment Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.94,0:00:17.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,together to complete the homework on Monday night. Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.34,0:00:19.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, every Monday we do grammar, and you'll do the Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.27,0:00:21.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,homework by leaving the answers in the comment section. Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.91,0:00:23.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here on Wednesdays, we're gonna do vocab. Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.93,0:00:25.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, Miko thank you so much for being awesome. Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.95,0:00:28.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will always have a place in my heart as Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.66,0:00:31.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my very first YouTube student to actually do the homework. Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.95,0:00:34.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And by the way, Miko, you did it perfectly. Nice shot. All right. Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.49,0:00:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, this episode, today is Wednesday. Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.49,0:00:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And on Wednesdays, we do words on Wednesday, Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.35,0:00:44.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which are always where we go deep on three high level SAT-type words. Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.99,0:00:49.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, back in 2016, the college board, the folks who create the test, Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.43,0:00:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they did do us all a favor. Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.63,0:00:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They basically boiled away all the archaic language out of the test, and Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.13,0:00:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they now use words that working professional, educated adults use in real life. Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.95,0:01:00.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And those are the words that I've chosen for you. Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.61,0:01:04.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I've gone through the SAT recommended word lists, and I've plucked Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.07,0:01:07.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out the ones that I think are really useful beyond the test. Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.69,0:01:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, even if you're never going to take the SAT, that's fine. Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.37,0:01:12.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These words will serve you well, Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.40,0:01:13.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in just raising the caliber of your Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.93,0:01:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conversation when you're in professional correspondence. Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.63,0:01:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, each week on Wednesdays, I'm gonna give you three of these words. Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.07,0:01:23.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're gonna go deep on them. We're gonna spend some time on them. Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.47,0:01:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the next slide, I will show you what we're doing there. Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.37,0:01:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In real life, I actually do five every Wednesday, Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.43,0:01:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's YouTube, and I'm trying to keep things kind of tight. Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.78,0:01:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we're gonna do the three words. And as always, I have my list of notes here. Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.11,0:01:38.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's all I needed to say. Let's go on with the show. Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.02,0:01:44.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right. Your first word this week is "edify." It is a verb. Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.61,0:01:47.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm gonna let you decide what makes sense for your note taking for this. Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.58,0:01:50.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want to keep it running Google Doc or just write them on flash cards, Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.82,0:01:52.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you want to write parts of what I'm Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.24,0:01:54.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talking about or every single word on every slide. Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.38,0:01:56.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Basically, I'm a big fan of the pause button. Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.47,0:02:00.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, if you want to pause because I know I talk really quickly, that is totally fine. Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.64,0:02:02.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm gonna do a deep dive on three words, and Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.71,0:02:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hopefully, you can start using them in your everyday language. Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.78,0:02:04.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right. Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.96,0:02:07.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first word is edify, as I mentioned, Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.28,0:02:12.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which means "to instruct" or "improve" someone morally or intellectually. Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.14,0:02:15.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of my goals is to edify you with all Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.18,0:02:18.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kinds of high school English goodness here on the channel. Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.14,0:02:21.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, that's what I've been doing. As I'm talking about the word, Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.83,0:02:23.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope that you're bubbling up Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.48,0:02:23.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some synonyms Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.47,0:02:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or antonyms Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.31,0:02:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that might work. So, I'm going to show you the ones that I've come up with. Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.93,0:02:33.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's kind of cool if you hit pause, write down your own guesses to a synonym, Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.47,0:02:36.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an appropriate antonym, and then see how close you come to mind. Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.29,0:02:38.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as we kind of get into this words on Wednesday routine, Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.68,0:02:40.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hopefully, you'll get used to just hitting that pause button, Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.71,0:02:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,writing the slide content, making your guesses, Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.71,0:02:47.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then here we go. So, your first synonym and antonym. Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.71,0:02:51.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For synonyms, I'm gonna go green is go and then red is stop for antonym, Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.42,0:02:52.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which means opposite. Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.44,0:02:53.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, your synonyms, Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.34,0:02:57.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the words that closely mean the same thing would be "to educate" or "to instruct." Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.78,0:02:59.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's kind of what teachers do. Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.19,0:03:03.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The antonym, the word that means opposite, would be "to confuse" or "to befuddle." Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.52,0:03:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Befuddle is another great word. Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.17,0:03:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm almost feeling like these slides are it be more Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.08,0:03:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than just one word because maybe you just learn the Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.38,0:03:13.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,word befuddle, and that's a good one, to confuse, just Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.35,0:03:16.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make things really milky cloudy for folks. Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.49,0:03:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, we went to the opposite. We want to edify. All right. Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.84,0:03:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then on the second slide, I'll give you, I'm gonna give you my sentence. Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.57,0:03:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A teacher's main task is to edify her students. Certainly, that's my goal. Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.36,0:03:29.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, what your assignment is, if you choose to accept Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.80,0:03:33.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the challenge, is to leave your own original sentence using edify Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.29,0:03:36.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the comments below. I'll do my best to respond. Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.84,0:03:39.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If this channel blows up, which come on, Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.54,0:03:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's high school English on YouTube, it's not gonna blow up. Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.00,0:03:43.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if it does, it gets to be too much. Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.82,0:03:46.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe you guys can help me out and just monitor each other's sentences. Give them attaboy Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.08,0:03:47.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or atta girl. Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.94,0:03:51.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you like the sentence, always school appropriate sentences y'all. Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.64,0:03:54.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got teenagers all over the place on this website. So, Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.75,0:03:58.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we wanna go ahead and keep things clean. All right. Second word. Here we go. Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.44,0:04:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Felicity. Felicity is a noun. Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.19,0:04:05.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the state of being joyful, so joyfulness or happiness. Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.00,0:04:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You sometimes might have met a woman. It's a girl's name. Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.21,0:04:14.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Felicity with a capital F. Obviously, there was a TV show Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.45,0:04:16.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a curly haired girl. Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.47,0:04:19.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanna say it was like in the nineties, I should look that up. Felicity. Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.43,0:04:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was like a teen drama kind of show. Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.38,0:04:24.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Felicity doesn't necessarily mean a girl. Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.42,0:04:28.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It just means joyfulness or happiness. A great deal of felicity. Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.38,0:04:31.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Working with you brings me a great deal of felicity. Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.62,0:04:33.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, synonyms and antonyms. Again, Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.55,0:04:37.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't be afraid to hit pause before I show you mine. Here we go. Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.56,0:04:39.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cheerfulness or delight. Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.84,0:04:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The opposite, of course, would be sorrow or misery. Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.41,0:04:44.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, my sentence for this one, Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.82,0:04:47.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"my dog yapped and wagged her tail with great felicity Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.51,0:04:48.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I arrived home from school." Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.24,0:04:50.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love my dogs. Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.57,0:04:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They just, they're like, they're so happy when I come home, you know, Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.75,0:04:56.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just nothing but love. Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.19,0:05:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right. And I want you hit pause, leave your sentence in the comment section below. Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.51,0:05:03.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here comes our third word of the week. Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.13,0:05:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Third and final word, veracity. Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.07,0:05:10.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Veracity is also a noun means the state of being truthful and straightforward. Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.71,0:05:14.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can verify, you know, if that helps you with the same root right here. Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.72,0:05:19.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Veracity means the same as trustworthiness or honesty. Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.34,0:05:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If someone has a great deal of veracity, we believe them. Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.04,0:05:26.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, like, I don't know, like a certain, Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.54,0:05:30.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know scholars or, you know, Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.10,0:05:32.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,professors that you have or even some Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.84,0:05:35.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,celebrities who have a real good moral center. Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.18,0:05:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We believe them. They show a great deal of veracity. Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.95,0:05:39.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Versus the antonym, Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.61,0:05:42.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which would be deceit or dishonesty. Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.28,0:05:46.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, like a used car salesperson does not hold a lot of veracity with me. Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.20,0:05:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, here is my sentence for this one. Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.14,0:05:51.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The police doubted the veracity of the suspect's alibi. Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.78,0:05:54.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He couldn't prove anything. So, they thought he was lying. Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.42,0:05:54.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right. Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.85,0:05:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, you're gonna leave your third sentence for me in the comments below. Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.77,0:06:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's see how you use veracity, felicity, Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.45,0:06:05.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and—oh my gosh, what was our first word— Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.12,0:06:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,man, Laura—edify. There we go, and use edify in a sentence. Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.03,0:06:11.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leave it for me in the comment section below. Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.94,0:06:15.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll be back on Friday with freestyle Friday. Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.10,0:06:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some fun coming at you, a little drop of high school Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.55,0:06:19.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,English, and then always on Monday with those mug shots, Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.00,0:06:21.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mechanics, usage, and grammar. Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.82,0:06:25.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, like, subscribe, tell a friend, and have a wonderful Wednesday. Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.78,0:06:27.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll see you guys on Friday. Bye.