The Vocab Man - Fluent Vocabulary

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You've been drinking. I have indeed!
Do you have ice? No., How many years has it been? What? eh.
Five years.

0:19
So this is an excerpt from this series called "the Fall", which is available on Netflix and Stella asks, have you been drinking? And then the man answers I have indeed. You've been drinking. I have indeed.

0:44
Does listening to the vocab man. help you to become a better English speaker. Indeed. It does help. But of course you need to put some effort in it. So my advice to you would be, so the next time you come across the expression "indeed", remember this episode. The thing is actually, well, at least in my case, when I am learning some new expressions, oftentimes all of a sudden I come across this expression again and again.

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So as I said, the next time you come across the word, indeed, be more mindful. And by doing so this will enable you to remember the expression even better. I promise.

1:42
That's lebowsky on the left there? Indeed. That is Mr. Lebowsky with the first lady. What indeed could one do!

So I want to give you three different meanings of indeed.

1:56 The different meanings of "indeed"
Number one, indeed is used to emphasize a statement or response confirming something already suggested an example would be, it will not expect it to last long, and indeed it took less than three weeks. Number two used to introduce a further and stronger or more surprising point as in the idea is attractive to many men and indeed to many women.
And the third meaning is used in a response to express interest sort of price or contempt. And here comes the example sentence, a ghost. Indeed. I've never heard anything so silly.

2:54 3th clip

Uh, and on the question that you asked about Hinkley point, um, I will be doing exactly, as you said indeed, in your question, Jason, which is, as you know, I've been looking at all the evidence around the, this issue.

3:05 Synonyms

So let's have a look at the synonyms of indeed, but please be aware that indeed comes with different meanings depending on the situation. So here are some examples instead of using the word, indeed, you might just say actually, in fact, really, as a matter of fact, And that's actually it for today, guys.

3:39 Outro

Thanks for tuning in. I hope you could learn something. And of course this episode comes with a transcript, which you are going to find in the show notes. Bye.

Oh, and before you go, I just want to show you an excerpt of Luke's English podcast, in which he promotes my other show called my fluent podcast. So if you really like to listen to Interviews, my other show might be something for you.

4:12 Luke from Luke's English podcasts promotes My Fluent Podcast

If you want to am more than just the handful of people I'm talking to, uh, over the next few months on this podcast, then why not listen to Daniel Goodson, his podcast, which is called my fluent podcast. Daniel is an English learner from Switzerland, and he's also a podcaster documenting his journey with English and also interviewing various interesting people.
You have a lot to say on the subject, including various members of what we are calling the BRAVE 85, uh, those LEPsters who didn't make it into the final 16 of the competition, Daniel has been speaking to some of them and the interviews are really great. You really should listen to them. Tons of advice, insights, and motivation for your learning of English and just some really great people to listen to.

4:58 Who has Daniel spoken to?

Who is he spoken to? Which lips does, has he spoken to, and let me just check. I think the first one that Daniel spoke to was Hamad from Pakistan. Who's got some really cool things to say. You got to check out handmade. He's brilliant. Also listen to episode 84 of my fluent podcasts, or should I call, should I call it Daniel's fluent podcasts, um, which was with Alvara hu from Spain, from Madrid.

5:25 Alvaro overcame his stuttering

Who was a fascinating person to listen to all about how he overcame his stuttering. Stuttering is a kind of a, how do I describe it? It's a, it's something that affects the way you speak and it can cause people to sort of, sort of repeat certain syllables and causes them problems in getting the words out, um, a stutter.

So Alvara. Has a stutter, but he overcame it and also has learned English to a good degree and lived in, in, I think in Scotland or Ireland.

5:56 The Ricky Sendy Show

Uh, but anyway, very interesting conversation also, you must listen to episode 86, which is the Ricky Sandy show. And that's Ricardo from Spain. Do you remember the funny recording that Ricardo sent to me on that point, actually listeners, another thing I must say, Ricardo recorded a full length Ricky Sandy show.
And it's it's up on YouTube. I put it on a listener's page on my website. Um, teacherluke.co.uk.

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Transcript:

Yes...NO, I think what the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on. He needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner just as Jimmy Carter did just as George H. W. Bush did. And frankly, just as Al Gore did and stop this and let us move forward as a country.

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And that's my feeling. I doubt he'll listen to me, but. That's it.

And in this excerpt, you could listen to the mayor of Philadelphia telling Donald Trump to put his big boy pants on and admit to defeat. And this is also the expression we want to cover in this episode of the Vocab Man.

No. I think what the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on and this expression basically means to act like a grownup.

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So according to Peter Scherrer who was born in 1957, back in the day, it was normal for boys to wear shorts until they were tought to be old enough to wear long trousers or the so-called "big boy trousers" or pants. And in the case of using it with a female, the expression putting on your big girl panties would be the equivalent version.

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And it goes without saying that it comes with a rather negative connotation. So be aware or careful while using these expression. So in the past, most boys wore short pants as children, until reaching a certain age and wearing long pants showed they were expected to act in a more major adult manner. So.

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Another way of expressing the same idea could be you're not a baby anymore or something like that. But as I said before, be careful, it is a figure of speech by the way. So I hope you liked this episode and if you can't catch every word, you can head over to the show notes in which you'll find the transcript.

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No, I think what the president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on. He needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner just as Jimmy Carter did just as George H w Bush did.

And frankly, just as Al Gore did and stop this and let us move forward as a country. And that's my feeling. I doubt he'll listen to me, but. That's it.


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Shenanigans shenanigans.

Hi, Mr. Vocab man, I really love your podcast and I'd like if you could make an episode of my favorite word, the word is shenanigans. I'm looking forward to hear this episode on my favorite podcast and wish you all the best. And I hope you keep going with the good work. Thank you very much.
Bye.

0:21 Clip 1

Because when we looked at the national DNA. You could see that it didn't look actually totally different from human DNA. So as you know, you got half your DNA from your mom and half from your dad, right? So 50 50. And then you've got about 25% of your DNA from each of your grandparents and then different amounts from other ancestors.
And when we look at people today, we find we have chunks of DNA that are from a Neandertal ancestor.

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I've got a bit in my DNA, Yeah me too. Yeah. We only one way to get a chunk of DNA from somebody else. Yeah, shenanigans. There was some serious interaction between modern humans and Neanderthals. You are shocking the parents!

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Shenanigans is an informal noun and usually used in the plural form "shenanigans".
So in short it means mischief or prankishness. As in Halloween shenanigans, or it could also mean deceit or trickery as in a mischievous or deceitful trick practice, et cetera.

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And after remembered this reverberated after the real estate crash, after the dot com crash and there, and there really was this feeling, can we, can the United States create a real economy?
Not based on shenanigans not based on a price bubble on an exotic mortgage instrument. And, there were, there were really some doubts.

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Is shenanigans a bad word. What do you think guys? Well, though many might think of shenanigans as harmless pranks or behavior, most dictionary definitions, give them a slightly evil cast.
And what about shenanigans used as an interjection? Well shenanigans denotes a person or event suspect of unscrupulous or dishonest conduct? If one believes they bear witness to such an occurrence, they should immediately call shenanigans to draw attention to it.


2:27 clip 3

In the film, he toyed with the defense department and eventually scared the pants off
everyone making it seem like a Russian nuclear launch was imminent. You would think that the systems in place to make nuclear winds possible would be secure enough to not be susceptible to computer shenanigans.

2:41 clip 4 with Obama

The accounting statements that they put out there and they've got to sign a bottom line and they're going to be directly liable.
If, uh, if for some reason it turns out that there were some shenanigans going on there. So, you know, this is, this raises a broader question about regulation

2: 57 Outro

I must admit that this episode was quite hard to follow, even for the Vocab man. So, but don't worry. We have a transcript available. So the vocab man is also going to have to take a closer look to the transcript of the various audio clips integrated in this episode because there are many useful but difficult vocabularies inside a special thank goes to my all time favorite listener, Nicole, thank you so much.

Thank you for listening. And before you go, I just want to show you the teaser of the newest episode of my other podcast called my fluent podcast.

3:43 teaser/trailer for newest episode of my fluent podcast:

I interviewed English teacher Hamid from Pakistan and he shared with us how we should learn a language. Here's the teaser. And bye.

You know what I tell my students, I tell them that the child has no ego issues. We have ego issues, but I have some motion for that. So what I do. I write the word ego on the board. E G O and I convert the letter O into G. So the ego becomes egg. Then I tell them convert this ego into an egg and break it. In a learning situation. Forget about your ego. We're all language learners. There is no good or bad learner. We're all learners. We are all the same. We all make mistakes. Leave your ego outside your class and enjoy it. And some learners do that. They managed to break or convert ego into an egg and break it !The way you did!

Here ist he link to the episode:

https://myfluentpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-83
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That the third time is the charm
Full transcript available here:

0:05

Hello guys, it's me, the Vocab Man. To make the best out of this episode, to learn as much as possible. I strongly recommend you to use the app "podcast addict". By doing so, you will be able to read along while you're listening to this podcast and "podcast addict" allows you to tap next the transcript, which automatically brings you to this specific position of the audio, which is great because even if you don't understand maybe the third time You'll get to understand because the third time is the charm.

0:57

I'm very happy to be here with you this afternoon. This is my third time in Providence and somehow the first time I've actually gotten to Brown's campus.
So in this case, the third time is the charm and a I am very eager to having to...

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"the third time is a charm" is an idiom, which means on your third try, you're likely to succeed after failing two times.

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It is often used as a phrase to encourage someone to try for the third time, even after that person has failed at that thing two times earlier, Making him realize. That his efforts might give him the results on his third time. So you just have to keep trying, never give up. And by the way, that's also the reason why I really liked this idiom.

1:53

It has such a positive thing in it, you know?

1:58 (clip 1)

I did not well maybe, maybe the third time as a charm, we'll look at it once more. Let's try. We'll try once more, one more time. Okay.

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If you would like to show, you can drop me a message@[email protected] and tell me which expression we should cover for you and explain by doing so...

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...you are helping the Vocab Man to grow. Thank you so much. So let's get to the last piece of audio, which comes directly from the game called cyberpunk 2077. And it's actually just a reference to the idiom because the speaker doesn't use the idiom in its original sense (form). And just so you know, in my opinion, it is a great method to learning English while gaming because especially in cyberpunk, there are a lot of dialogues which ???can??? support it by subtitles as well.

And it's an excellent way to entertain yourself while you are learning English.

3:18

It might take you a few seconds to adjust but first time's rarely the charm, with anything, really. Scanner should eventually sync with your thought processes and read your intentions.

3:32

You were listening to the Vocab Man and if you didn't catch every phrase or word, never give up. If you relisten to this episode, everything is going to be fine.

The third time is the charm!

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Sources related to this idiom.
https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/114393/the-meaning-of-third-time-is-the-charm

The full transcript is further below.
Words to learn from this episode:

one does not simply...

02:18

ravaging

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alluding

Transcript:

One does not simply listen to podcasts without knowing the Vocab man.

Baromir from the Lords of the rings movie: "One does not simply walk into Mordor".

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Today we are going to take a closer look at "one does not" or "one does not simply". I am the Vocab man and hopefully, we are going to learn a bunch of things. Alluding to (referring to) a quote from a Lord of the rings movie.

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One does not simply is the catch phrase of popular memes that comment on humerous complex, challenging or aggravating (annoying, provoking) experiences or situations.

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One does not put sugar in green tea. I know I said I'm aware of this custom, but I really liked my tea. Sweet in response. He gave me an even more courteous (polite, respectful) version of the same explanation. One does not put sugar in green tea. I understand. I said that the Japanese do not put sugar in their green tea, but I'd like to put some sugar in my green tea.

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One does not listen to the Vocab Man without learning something. Do you know what alluding or to allude (to refer to) means? I mentioned it in the beginning of the podcast:

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Alluding to a quote from a Lord of the rings movie (= flick) .
One does not simply is the catchphrase of popular memes (an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations) for to allude is to refer to, or to imply or to mention. And. The other word was "catchphrase". I catch phrase is a well-known sentence or phrase, especially one that is associated (connected with something else) with a particular famous person.

1:59

One does not use fitting room two when one is popping one's cherry. (Quote from Kingsman)

Again, this time I'm going to make a transcript for this episode. So for those who didn't catch every word, you can simply read along while listening to the Vocab Man. Bye.

2:18

I don't know how things are in that third rate novel of yours, but where I come from, one does not go around ravaging (to cause severe and extensive damage) libraries. (Quote from Inkheart 2008)
And by the way to ravage means something like to cause severe and extensive damage to like the hurricane ravaged southern, Florida. Oh my gosh. The last two words are really difficult to pronounce correctly.

Links:

https://www.dictionary.com/e/memes/one-does-not-simply/#:~:text=Alluding%20to%20a%20quote%20from,or%20aggravating%20experiences%20or%20situations.

(Quote from Kingsman)
(Quote from Inkheart 2008)

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Teacher Zdenek's book recommendation: Practical Everyday English. A very unique book to learn English. I decided to interview Zdenek, the English teacher because we also need to get out of our comfort zone and speak. We can't always cover behind single English expressions.

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Full transcript:

Hi, I'm teachers' Zdenek from Zdenek's English podcast and you're listening to the vocab man.
I am the vocab man and this podcast is going to help you to learn different expressions like in episode two, the expression "gotcha" I finally got you your little rat. "Gotcha" Or in episode 35 "batshit crazy" I just kind of think of how bat shit crazy the whole thing...

This time, we are going to change things a little bit up and have a discussion with teachers Zdenek.

It goes without saying that you are going to learn something anyways.

The thing is the other day I saw you commenting on the Discord platform in which I am a member of the group called learn English online and actually you gave some advice to an English learner there. Apparently she has been preparing herself for the Certificate in Advanced English.

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...and this person didn't think she was already prepared for an exam. She pointed out that she would have a lack of vocabulary. You wrote something like I can recommend you a very good book to boost your vocabulary you remember?

Zdenek:

It must be the book that I recommend to everyone because I know it personally helped me and I think it's quite useful for high level learners. So I do remember which book I keep recommending but I don't remember this particular post you're referring to. I think it was back mid November already.

Daniel:

So that got me thinking and now I have the opportunity to talk to you. I'm super curious: why do you find it useful and very unique ?

Zdenek:

okay. Well I think the book is called practical everyday English. Let me just check it because there are a lot of books that have a similar name.
I think the answer Daniel is in the title itself, yeah. Practical everyday English. And it was written by Steven Collins and it's actually a series of books, which are divided by levels as well. So the first one is. The blue book, I referred to it as the blue book and it's suitable for B2 level learners.
So upper intermediate level learners. And then after that, you've got a belief that I could red book and green book. Yeah. I think there's a red book for advanced learners. And then there's a green book for high-level learners. Yeah. So it's it kind of corresponds to C1 and C2. And I really liked this book because it's a unique way to teach vocabulary.
As the title suggests it's quite practical. So the way this works is that you have got different units. And in each unit that has, a certain number of expressions that you learn. So let's say it's about 15 or 20. I don't know exactly. And they seem to be seemingly unconnected.

3:06

Yeah. So it's like kind of all over the place. So it's a bit of phrasal verbs, some idioms and just, you know a bit of slang as well. So it's, it seems like the author of the book tried try to go for expressions that are used a lot, you know, that's why it's called practical everyday English. So these are expressions that perhaps you wouldn't find, sometimes you wouldn't find them necessarily in a classic course book.

Yeah. Like some of those slang expressions perhaps some of the idioms. And, so the way this works is that you've got an entry of vocabulary entry. Let's say they teach you the expression to kick the bucket. I don't know if it's there, but let's just have an example. And then


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the expression is explained that there's a meaning, there's an example and then you learn the next one but what, what the author did is very cool actually, because every single example from that point on, from then on every single example contains one of the words from the previous units.


You see? So in the follow... so you would be learning, let's say a phrasal verb "to throw away". As the next one. Yeah. And you would have an example sentence, which would also contain "to kick the bucket" in it. I don't know how you would do that. That's just, I'm just, trying to come up with some sort of a silly example, but you know how it works, revise the older vocabulary words you were learning quickly by learning the new one.

4:40

Exactly. But it's as if you don't almost have a choice because you always see the previous expressions, you will always see them. So the author keeps reminding you because that's the thing with learning new vocabulary. We just forget, we forget easily but you need to reinforce it as we say.

4:58

Yeah. It's not enough to just learn it once. And then use it. I don't know, 10 minutes later, it's not enough. This is a very cool method and I have to say it really helped me personally as well because I've learned a lot of expressions from that series of books and I can only recommend it.

5:19

And where did you find out about that book? I think I was looking for some material to use in my English classes and I probably just came across it by chance. I assume.I don't think anybody had ever told me about this. Do you remember when you bought it?

That's a good question. I'm looking at it online and it says here it's originally published in 1993. Since then it must have been revised a few times. I assume.

5:46

I think I bought this eight years ago and I think I bought the first book first and I liked it so much that I bought the following ones and I also bought it for some of my friends as a gift because it's that good. Like this is really cool.

To be continued... If you need the transcript just write a very short message at [email protected]
Then I will know, that there is actually somebody out there reading the transcript. Then I will upload the rest (because it's a lot of work and I don't want it to do if nobody reads it, thanks). Thank you for listening. Daniel

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Full transcript:

Welcome back to the vocab man. I am Daniel. I come from Switzerland and every time I come across an expression I want to learn, I write it down and then I make a podcast episode out of it. So hopefully you can learn something by listening to the vocab man. Have fun.

Anyway, not to beat a dead horse, but just to be super clear, I was looking for the key up front and I thought maybe it was on the side.

And by the way don't forget to read the transcript which is in our show notes.
Recently, I came across a great podcast in which you can learn vocabulary. So my recommendation would be to have a look at words the podcast, in each episode, the father called Juscelino and his daughter Amaya discuss different idioms or expressions, and they have to take a guess what the expression they are covering means.
I thought this is really a great idea and really funny to listen to.
This is a very short example of the podcast.

So beating a dead horse. That's what you said, right? That's, you know, cause some people eat horses. No, I'm kidding. I think, I actually think I know what it means, but I won't be able to explain it correctly. It's like, uh, like kinda like just talking too much about something.

That's how I, that's how I understand it. Okay. So beating a dead horse and the other side of the coin. So onto the definitions, so beating a dead horse, it basically means giving time or energy to something that is already over ended. I will say I was some right? Yes. I was. It's like you just go on and on and on about something.
And you don't stop. You're beating a dead horse. Do you understand what that means?
What's to say that it won't just go on and on and start a chain reaction for days I could sit there and listen to them go on and on with a big smile on my face.
So we're the podcast with two Juscelino and Amalya already has 33 episodes and they are really short ones and similar to the Vocab man. I mean they last about five minutes maybe or six minutes. I'm just having a blast by listening to them. And of course I could go on and on and on and talking about their podcast.
But the thing is you should have a look by yourself because that way you can make up your own mind.
I could go on and on about what a great guy he is.
So I will let Juscelino to wrap this episode up See you soon. Bye.
And if they want to follow us or send us something on Twitter, what can you, they do. They could go find our Twitter at words the pod. Yep. That's right. And that's it for this week. Thank you for listening. We will ABC you later...

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We cover the expression: To put someone on a pedestal.
This episode is dedicated to the football legend Diego Armando Maradona.



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Transcript:

And they can't figure out the middle East, go figure
My animal is a tortoise they'll figure she likes Prince, go figure, go figure today's expression guys here on the Vocab man is "go figure" really, fo figure Actually go figure has many different meanings. So the dictionaries tells you. Slightly different definitions.
For instance, the Oxford languages. It is an informal North American expression said to express the belief that something is amazing or incredible.
If you already know the vocab man. Then you know that I am a fan of the urban dictionary in which actually people can give their own definitions there. So the top definition for go figure goes like that, A remark made to something said that is typical or falls under Murphy's law.
Great. Nice activity.
Go figure.
She likes Prince go figure.
If you have your own examples to use the expression, go figure you can send them in at my [email protected]. So where did I come across the expression? Go figure actually, I discovered it in a Netflix series. I am currently watching called the queen scam bit.
It's about a chess prodigy. And now let's have a closer look at the scene, which takes place in an orphanage
where the main character Beth Harmon lifs in a quick side note here, an orphanage is at a residential institution, or let's say like a group home devoted to the care of orphans and other children who were separated from their biological family.
Whereas an orphan is a child whose parents have died or unknown or have permanently abandoned them.
So we have orphanage and the orphan.
All right. So now imagine this situation, many orphans are all standing a queue. Waiting for having their pills.
And at this point, you need to understand that the orphanage here in the movie used to distribute tranquilizers. I mean, pills to their orphans in order to keep them quiet. And apparently the public found out about that. So when now in the scene at the Madison window, the main character, Beth looking a bit confused.
It looks into her cup and sees only one single pill. Usually she is supposed to receive two of them. There's one missing. That's it. Next! It's my turn. Harmon. Where are the green ones? You don't get them anymore. There they are right behind you. I know where they are. I'm not going to give you any new state law and no more tranquilizers for kids.
Go figure,Harmon, go thou further off, made me farewell. And let me hear they go in what beat it.
And I found this scene was really great. And it also showed that the main character is going to have a lot of problems. I mean soon Beth will suffer from withdrawal symptoms and I absolutely recommend you to learn English by watching series. For example, with Netflix red letter N unfolds into a spectrum of colors, Because over there you have always the subtitles in it, which can support you in the process of learning.
And did you notice right away there was another great expression BEAT IT it's another way of saying to go away, but it is slightly harder than
but that my friends is a complete other story. And you might learn more about it in another episode of the Vocab man. My animals, a tortoise go figure.