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Walden Vocabulary Text

Hi, this is AJ. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Walden." Let's get started.

Our first word is advance, to advance. So this is a verb. Now you probably know

advanced in another meaning, meaning high level. But this is a different meaning. This

is a verb. It's an action. To advance means to move forward, to move forward. So

advance towards your dreams means move towards your dreams. Go forward towards

your dreams.

Alright, our next word is to endeavor. This is a noun also but in this paragraph it's a

verb, to endeavor to do something. To endeavor to live the life you have imagined. To

endeavor to live your dreams and endeavor means to try, to attempt. So, to attempt to

live your dreams, to try to live your dreams, to endeavor to live your dreams. So

Thoreau is saying you should endeavor to live your biggest dreams. You should try to

live your biggest dreams.

Okay, and then a little later he says if you do this, if you try to live your biggest dreams

and you try hard then you will have success unexpected in common hours. Unexpected

is kind of like a surprise, right? But in common hours means during normal times, like in

your normal life. So maybe right now, during your normal life you imagine your big, big

dream and you can't imagine success. It seems so difficult. It's like “Oh my god." So

this is sort of your normal time, your common hour. But if you take a big chance, if you

really try, your success will be huge. It will be bigger than you can imagine normally. So

in common hours means normally, during normal times, usually. It has that idea.

Little bit later he uses the word liberal. Liberal has a lot of different meanings and uses.

It can be used in a political way, but here it's used in a much more general way. He

says if you try to reach your dreams, then liberal laws will begin to happen around you.

So liberal here means flexible, free, open, tolerant. Okay, so it's this idea of more

flexible, more free, more tolerant and open. So what he's saying is that liberal laws,

laws as in like religious laws, spiritual laws, scientific laws, physical laws. He's just

saying that the universe or God or whatever will make things easier for you.

That the more you try for your big, big dream that things will become more liberal. Your

life situation will become more flexible. Your life situation will become more easy and

free. Your life situation will become more open. So he''s saying that your experiences,

your situation, your environment will become more liberal because you have this strong

belief for your big, big dream. Because of that your environment will become liberal,

liberal meaning flexible, liberal meaning free and open.

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