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

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

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

the very first student in our year-long experiment

together to complete the homework on Monday night.

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

homework by leaving the answers in the comment section.

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

So, Miko thank you so much for being awesome.

You will always have a place in my heart as

my very first YouTube student to actually do the homework.

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

So, this episode, today is Wednesday.

And on Wednesdays, we do words on Wednesday,

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

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

they did do us all a favor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

These words will serve you well,

in just raising the caliber of your

conversation when you're in professional correspondence.

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

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

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

In real life, I actually do five every Wednesday,

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

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

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

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

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

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

if you want to write parts of what I'm

talking about or every single word on every slide.

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

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

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

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

All right.

The first word is edify, as I mentioned,

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

One of my goals is to edify you with all

kinds of high school English goodness here on the channel.

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

I hope that you're bubbling up

some synonyms

or antonyms

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

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

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

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

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

writing the slide content, making your guesses,

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

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

which means opposite.

So, your synonyms,

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

That's kind of what teachers do.

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

Befuddle is another great word.

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

than just one word because maybe you just learn the

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

to make things really milky cloudy for folks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If this channel blows up, which come on,

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

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

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

or atta girl.

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

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

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

Felicity. Felicity is a noun.

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

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

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

with a curly haired girl.

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

It was like a teen drama kind of show.

But Felicity doesn't necessarily mean a girl.

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

Working with you brings me a great deal of felicity.

All right, synonyms and antonyms. Again,

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

Cheerfulness or delight.

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

All right, my sentence for this one,

"my dog yapped and wagged her tail with great felicity

when I arrived home from school."

I love my dogs.

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

just nothing but love.

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

And here comes our third word of the week.

Third and final word, veracity.

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

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

Veracity means the same as trustworthiness or honesty.

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

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

I don't know scholars or, you know,

professors that you have or even some

celebrities who have a real good moral center.

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

Versus the antonym,

which would be deceit or dishonesty.

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

All right, here is my sentence for this one.

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

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

All right.

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

Let's see how you use veracity, felicity,

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

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

Leave it for me in the comment section below.

I'll be back on Friday with freestyle Friday.

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

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

mechanics, usage, and grammar.

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

I'll see you guys on Friday. Bye.