WEBVTT 00:00:00.029 --> 00:00:03.380 Hey everyone. Welcome back to your little drops of high school English 00:00:03.390 --> 00:00:07.659 here on YouTube, We're gonna talk about SAT level vocabulary today. 00:00:07.670 --> 00:00:12.109 But first a huge shout out of awesomeness to Miko Santos, 00:00:12.119 --> 00:00:14.930 the very first student in our year-long experiment 00:00:14.939 --> 00:00:17.329 together to complete the homework on Monday night. 00:00:17.340 --> 00:00:19.260 So, every Monday we do grammar, and you'll do the 00:00:19.270 --> 00:00:21.790 homework by leaving the answers in the comment section. 00:00:21.909 --> 00:00:23.590 And here on Wednesdays, we're gonna do vocab. 00:00:23.930 --> 00:00:25.940 So, Miko thank you so much for being awesome. 00:00:25.950 --> 00:00:28.649 You will always have a place in my heart as 00:00:28.659 --> 00:00:31.940 my very first YouTube student to actually do the homework. 00:00:31.950 --> 00:00:34.479 And by the way, Miko, you did it perfectly. Nice shot. All right. 00:00:34.490 --> 00:00:37.479 So, this episode, today is Wednesday. 00:00:37.490 --> 00:00:39.340 And on Wednesdays, we do words on Wednesday, 00:00:39.349 --> 00:00:44.979 which are always where we go deep on three high level SAT-type words. 00:00:44.990 --> 00:00:49.419 So, back in 2016, the college board, the folks who create the test, 00:00:49.430 --> 00:00:50.619 they did do us all a favor. 00:00:50.630 --> 00:00:54.119 They basically boiled away all the archaic language out of the test, and 00:00:54.130 --> 00:00:58.939 they now use words that working professional, educated adults use in real life. 00:00:58.950 --> 00:01:00.599 And those are the words that I've chosen for you. 00:01:00.610 --> 00:01:04.059 So, I've gone through the SAT recommended word lists, and I've plucked 00:01:04.069 --> 00:01:07.680 out the ones that I think are really useful beyond the test. 00:01:07.690 --> 00:01:10.360 So, even if you're never going to take the SAT, that's fine. 00:01:10.370 --> 00:01:12.389 These words will serve you well, 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:13.919 in just raising the caliber of your 00:01:13.930 --> 00:01:16.620 conversation when you're in professional correspondence. 00:01:16.629 --> 00:01:21.059 So, each week on Wednesdays, I'm gonna give you three of these words. 00:01:21.069 --> 00:01:23.459 We're gonna go deep on them. We're gonna spend some time on them. 00:01:23.470 --> 00:01:25.360 And the next slide, I will show you what we're doing there. 00:01:25.370 --> 00:01:28.419 In real life, I actually do five every Wednesday, 00:01:28.430 --> 00:01:30.769 but it's YouTube, and I'm trying to keep things kind of tight. 00:01:30.779 --> 00:01:35.519 So, we're gonna do the three words. And as always, I have my list of notes here. 00:01:36.110 --> 00:01:38.379 That's all I needed to say. Let's go on with the show. 00:01:41.019 --> 00:01:44.580 All right. Your first word this week is "edify." It is a verb. 00:01:44.610 --> 00:01:47.569 I'm gonna let you decide what makes sense for your note taking for this. 00:01:47.580 --> 00:01:50.809 If you want to keep it running Google Doc or just write them on flash cards, 00:01:50.819 --> 00:01:52.230 if you want to write parts of what I'm 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:54.349 talking about or every single word on every slide. 00:01:54.379 --> 00:01:56.370 Basically, I'm a big fan of the pause button. 00:01:56.470 --> 00:02:00.629 So, if you want to pause because I know I talk really quickly, that is totally fine. 00:02:00.639 --> 00:02:02.699 I'm gonna do a deep dive on three words, and 00:02:02.709 --> 00:02:04.765 hopefully, you can start using them in your everyday language. 00:02:04.776 --> 00:02:04.945 All right. 00:02:04.956 --> 00:02:07.185 The first word is edify, as I mentioned, 00:02:07.276 --> 00:02:12.106 which means "to instruct" or "improve" someone morally or intellectually. 00:02:12.136 --> 00:02:15.166 One of my goals is to edify you with all 00:02:15.175 --> 00:02:18.106 kinds of high school English goodness here on the channel. 00:02:18.136 --> 00:02:21.815 And so, that's what I've been doing. As I'm talking about the word, 00:02:21.826 --> 00:02:23.356 I hope that you're bubbling up 00:02:23.475 --> 00:02:23.906 some synonyms 00:02:24.466 --> 00:02:25.005 or antonyms 00:02:25.311 --> 00:02:28.921 that might work. So, I'm going to show you the ones that I've come up with. 00:02:28.932 --> 00:02:33.462 But it's kind of cool if you hit pause, write down your own guesses to a synonym, 00:02:33.472 --> 00:02:36.281 an appropriate antonym, and then see how close you come to mind. 00:02:36.292 --> 00:02:38.671 But as we kind of get into this words on Wednesday routine, 00:02:38.682 --> 00:02:40.701 hopefully, you'll get used to just hitting that pause button, 00:02:40.712 --> 00:02:43.602 writing the slide content, making your guesses, 00:02:43.712 --> 00:02:47.042 and then here we go. So, your first synonym and antonym. 00:02:47.710 --> 00:02:51.410 For synonyms, I'm gonna go green is go and then red is stop for antonym, 00:02:51.419 --> 00:02:52.419 which means opposite. 00:02:52.440 --> 00:02:53.330 So, your synonyms, 00:02:53.339 --> 00:02:57.770 the words that closely mean the same thing would be "to educate" or "to instruct." 00:02:57.779 --> 00:02:59.100 That's kind of what teachers do. 00:02:59.190 --> 00:03:03.509 The antonym, the word that means opposite, would be "to confuse" or "to befuddle." 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:05.160 Befuddle is another great word. 00:03:05.169 --> 00:03:08.074 I'm almost feeling like these slides are it be more 00:03:08.085 --> 00:03:10.365 than just one word because maybe you just learn the 00:03:10.375 --> 00:03:13.345 word befuddle, and that's a good one, to confuse, just 00:03:13.354 --> 00:03:16.485 to make things really milky cloudy for folks. 00:03:16.494 --> 00:03:18.835 Now, we went to the opposite. We want to edify. All right. 00:03:18.845 --> 00:03:22.565 And then on the second slide, I'll give you, I'm gonna give you my sentence. 00:03:22.574 --> 00:03:26.125 A teacher's main task is to edify her students. Certainly, that's my goal. 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:29.789 And then, what your assignment is, if you choose to accept 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:33.050 the challenge, is to leave your own original sentence using edify 00:03:33.289 --> 00:03:36.830 in the comments below. I'll do my best to respond. 00:03:36.839 --> 00:03:39.529 If this channel blows up, which come on, 00:03:39.539 --> 00:03:41.990 it's high school English on YouTube, it's not gonna blow up. 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:43.809 But if it does, it gets to be too much. 00:03:43.820 --> 00:03:46.860 Maybe you guys can help me out and just monitor each other's sentences. Give them attaboy 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:47.929 or atta girl. 00:03:47.940 --> 00:03:51.470 If you like the sentence, always school appropriate sentences y'all. 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:54.169 I got teenagers all over the place on this website. So, 00:03:54.750 --> 00:03:58.429 we wanna go ahead and keep things clean. All right. Second word. Here we go. 00:03:58.440 --> 00:04:00.880 Felicity. Felicity is a noun. 00:04:01.190 --> 00:04:05.990 It is the state of being joyful, so joyfulness or happiness. 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:10.199 You sometimes might have met a woman. It's a girl's name. 00:04:10.210 --> 00:04:14.320 Felicity with a capital F. Obviously, there was a TV show 00:04:14.449 --> 00:04:16.459 with a curly haired girl. 00:04:16.470 --> 00:04:19.420 I wanna say it was like in the nineties, I should look that up. Felicity. 00:04:19.428 --> 00:04:21.375 It was like a teen drama kind of show. 00:04:21.385 --> 00:04:24.415 But Felicity doesn't necessarily mean a girl. 00:04:24.424 --> 00:04:28.375 It just means joyfulness or happiness. A great deal of felicity. 00:04:28.385 --> 00:04:31.614 Working with you brings me a great deal of felicity. 00:04:31.625 --> 00:04:33.545 All right, synonyms and antonyms. Again, 00:04:33.554 --> 00:04:37.535 don't be afraid to hit pause before I show you mine. Here we go. 00:04:37.565 --> 00:04:39.375 Cheerfulness or delight. 00:04:39.845 --> 00:04:42.954 The opposite, of course, would be sorrow or misery. 00:04:43.410 --> 00:04:44.809 All right, my sentence for this one, 00:04:44.820 --> 00:04:47.500 "my dog yapped and wagged her tail with great felicity 00:04:47.510 --> 00:04:48.940 when I arrived home from school." 00:04:49.239 --> 00:04:50.559 I love my dogs. 00:04:50.570 --> 00:04:54.739 They just, they're like, they're so happy when I come home, you know, 00:04:54.750 --> 00:04:56.179 just nothing but love. 00:04:56.190 --> 00:05:00.500 All right. And I want you hit pause, leave your sentence in the comment section below. 00:05:00.510 --> 00:05:03.559 And here comes our third word of the week. 00:05:04.130 --> 00:05:06.059 Third and final word, veracity. 00:05:06.070 --> 00:05:10.700 Veracity is also a noun means the state of being truthful and straightforward. 00:05:10.709 --> 00:05:14.709 We can verify, you know, if that helps you with the same root right here. 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:19.260 Veracity means the same as trustworthiness or honesty. 00:05:19.339 --> 00:05:23.480 If someone has a great deal of veracity, we believe them. 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:26.779 you know, like, I don't know, like a certain, 00:05:27.540 --> 00:05:30.089 I don't know scholars or, you know, 00:05:30.100 --> 00:05:32.829 professors that you have or even some 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:35.170 celebrities who have a real good moral center. 00:05:35.179 --> 00:05:37.839 We believe them. They show a great deal of veracity. 00:05:37.950 --> 00:05:39.440 Versus the antonym, 00:05:39.609 --> 00:05:42.269 which would be deceit or dishonesty. 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:46.190 You know, like a used car salesperson does not hold a lot of veracity with me. 00:05:46.200 --> 00:05:48.000 All right, here is my sentence for this one. 00:05:48.140 --> 00:05:51.489 The police doubted the veracity of the suspect's alibi. 00:05:51.779 --> 00:05:54.170 He couldn't prove anything. So, they thought he was lying. 00:05:54.420 --> 00:05:54.839 All right. 00:05:54.850 --> 00:05:57.760 And then, you're gonna leave your third sentence for me in the comments below. 00:05:57.769 --> 00:06:03.029 Let's see how you use veracity, felicity, 00:06:03.450 --> 00:06:05.660 and—oh my gosh, what was our first word— 00:06:06.119 --> 00:06:10.019 man, Laura—edify. There we go, and use edify in a sentence. 00:06:10.029 --> 00:06:11.929 Leave it for me in the comment section below. 00:06:11.940 --> 00:06:15.089 I'll be back on Friday with freestyle Friday. 00:06:15.100 --> 00:06:17.540 Some fun coming at you, a little drop of high school 00:06:17.549 --> 00:06:19.989 English, and then always on Monday with those mug shots, 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:21.809 mechanics, usage, and grammar. 00:06:21.820 --> 00:06:25.769 All right, like, subscribe, tell a friend, and have a wonderful Wednesday. 00:06:25.779 --> 00:06:27.130 I'll see you guys on Friday. Bye.