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Episode 98: Beatific, avocation, prolix, and more

We hope everyone had a beatific Christmas… because beatific happens to be today’s first word.

In this episode, and every episode, Matt and Mom break down 10 unique vocabulary words and give you a clever mnemonic to help you remember each one.

Words propounded include propound, avocation, prolix, revery, and more.

Enjoy!

Episode 97: Best words from episodes 51-75

We’re going back in time to some of our best words from episodes 51-75.

If you’re a long-time listener, it will be a fun review. If you’re new to the show, they’ll all be new to you. Win-win!

What’s a better way to say that you’re feeling grumpy?

What’s likely to break out at NASA…

Episode 96: Degust, titrate, epigone, and more

What do you call the covering the waiter removes to unveil a fine platter at a fancy restaurant? If you said “lid,” then you need to listen to today’s episode.

As you’ll discover, this episode is no mere epigone. Each word is the kind you can degust one by one by one.

Matt and Mom…

Episode 95: Best words from episodes 26-50

Rather than work from a tabula rasa today, Matt and Mom are bringing back their favorite words from episodes 26-50.

A fancy way to say “buyer beware”…

The conclusion of a movie…

What to call an ugly sweater at a Christmas party…

You’ll find the answers to all questions and more in today’s episode.

Enjoy!

Episode 94: meldrop, desiderata, ichthyology, and more

We hope you’re enjoying Thanksgiving weekend — free of cheespairing and caviling relatives…

And most importantly, free of embarrassing meldrops.

In this episode Matt and Mom aim to cover all the words in your vocabulary desiderata.

Enjoy!

Episode 93: Best words from episodes 1-25

We’re feeling ebullient today… and we’re changing things up a little.

Rather than give new words, we’re choosing some of our favorites from episodes 1-25, including surreptitious (which has mom’s favorite mnemonic of all-time), alacrity, desiccate, and more.

Enjoy!

Episode 92: Arcadian, apotheosis, sus, and more

Here at Vocabulary Mnemonics, we’re always reaching for the apotheosis of the podcast world…

Hence one of today’s words is apotheosis.

Matt and Mom also break down arcadian, apothecary, absquatulate, and some non-A words like expatriate, jargonaut, and even sus.

Enjoy!

Episode 91: Review game #3

It’s time to play an 80s review game! Not the 1980s — episodes 82-90.

Matt and Mom read descriptions of past words and see if they can remember them.

For example, Matt starts one description with: “If you ever hear someone yell this from above, run the other way. Especially if you’re in Edinburgh.”

Feel…

Episode 90: Stentorian, Specter, Intaglio, and more

Matt and Mom are coming to you today with their most stentorian voices.

Words featured include specter, intaglio, mendacity, Jeremiad, and more.

Plus, they crack the code on what to call America’s 250 birthday and reveal what the upside down “e” in phonetic spelling is called.

Programming note: next week will be a review game…

Episode 89: Portentous, Esprit de Corps, Acquisitive, and more

Today’s episode has a portentous feel to it… because today’s first word is portentous.

Matt and Mom break down ten lesser-known vocabulary words including acquisitive, pallid, esprit de corps, shoal, kwashiorkor, and more, and give you a clever mnemonic to help you remember the meaning of each one.

Watch out for Willy Wonka getting blown…

Episode 88: Redoubt, backronym, atavistic, and more…

Ready to get your adrenals pumping? You’ve come to the right place.

In today’s non-atavistic, fast-paced episode, Matt and Mom cover 10 interesting vocabulary words and answer life’s big, burning questions, including:

What do the FBI and SCUBA diving have do with each other? The answer has nothing to do with underwater espionage.

…

Episode 87: Brio, Shambolic, Errantry, and more

We hope you’re full of brio this week and ready to sally forth into the exciting world of vocab.

In today’s episode Matt and Mom break down the difference between running errands and errantry, why it’s critical to know if your doctor is prescribing or proscribing medicine, why you should run as fast as…

Episode 86: Pons asinorum, Solipsism, Turpitude, and more

If your podcasts are starting to sound like a monolith, you’ve come to the right place.

This has to be the only podcast episode in the world with full breakdowns of gems like fartlek, turpitude, solipsism, pons asinorum, and more…

All without interstitial ads.

Enjoy!

Episode 85: Maw, triptych, obelus, and more…

We hope this episode finds you in fine fettle!

In today’s potboiler of an episode, Matt and Mom delve into ten words, including maw, marginalia, obelus, salacious, triptych, and more.

Let’s hope things don’t go pear-shaped.

Enjoy!

Episode 84: Bathetic, Veblen Good, Furcula, and more

When you come to a furcula in life, what do you do?

What do you call something that gets more expensive as the price goes up?

And most importantly, what do you call one of those heaps of stones used as landmark?

Matt and Mom answer all these questions and more in today’s episode.

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Episode 83: Vermilion, mirth, expostulate, and more

Is today’s episode filled with moments of divine afflatus? You’ll have to be the judge.

Matt and Mom break down ten words including expostulate, mirth, dogma, vermilion, and more, and give you mnemonics to help you remember each one.

Stick around for a colossal compilation that proves brevity isn’t always the soul of wit.

Enjoy!

Episode 82: insipient, zhuzh, simulacrum, and more

If you’re looking to zhuzh up your vocabulary, you’ve come to the right place.

In today’s episode Matt and Mom delve into the inner workings of hydroponics, show their prescience, do a little prognosticating, and more…

All with a little onomatopoeia.

Enjoy!

Episode 81: Review game #2

It’s game week at Vocabulary Mnemonics.

Matt and Mom take five words each from episodes 70-79 and quiz each other.

Matt quizzes Mom on her words, and vice versa.

Play along at home and see if you can guess the words before they do.

Enjoy!

Episode 80: Lagniappe, inimical, unctuous, and more

Welcome to the Vocabulary Mnemonics podcast.

In today’s episode, Matt and Mom discover a way to take the podcast to the next level: lagniappe.

They go on to break down solarium, aqueous, rubric, inimical, and more.

Entre nous, while the dialogue may feel a bit unctuous at times, it’s all genuine.

Enjoy!

Episode 79: Holus Bolus, excursive, soothfast, and more

For those days when it feels like everything’s coming at you Holus Bolus, there’s the Vocabulary Mnemonics podcast.

Today Matt and Mom break down excursive, soothfast, scrimshank, and more and give you helpful mnemonics to remember each one.

Plus, they explain how proprioception could save humanity from a robotic takeover.

Enjoy!

Episode 78: Mot Juste, purloin, demotic, and more

Have you ever been searching for the mos juste… only to have it pop into your head too late?

If so, then hie yourself to today’s episode. Matt and Mom break down ten fun vocabulary words and give you a clever mnemonic to help you remember each one.

Words featured include purloin, ambigram, demotic, and…

Episode 77: Kompromat, deign, merism, and more!

Today Matt and Mom are coming at you like a Quaker Gun.

This episode features kompromat, deign, the Dilbert Principle, and more…

All with witty badinage, and without a miasma of failure.

We can’t promise you’ll become a salutatorian after listening, but you will be able to spot merisms.

Enjoy!

Episode 76: Neophyte, sublebrity, Quaker Gun, and more

In today’s episode, Matt and Mom hope to rise to the level of their own incompetence. Which, as you’ll discover, isn’t such a bad thing.

Get ready for a full breakdown of neophyte, asperity, lee, garrulous, and more.

Who knows? If you start using these words effectively, you may just earn sublebrity status.

Enjoy!

Episode 75: Heuristic, Gelid, Billet doux, and more

Feeling addlepated in your quest to put together your first billet doux? Then today’s divers words are for you!

Matt and Mom discuss gelid, heuristic, folly, feral, and more.

Enjoy!

Episode 74: Vexillology, egress, Hanlon’s Razor, and more

Welcome to today’s epithet-free episode.

Matt and Mom wend their way through the fields of vexillology, discuss gustatory pleasures, and break down Hanlon’s Razor and more, all while trying to not sound hoary.

Enjoy!

Episode 73: Elucubrate, trope, eclaircissement, and more

Happy 4th of July weekend!

We didn’t exactly elucubrate to bring you today’s episode, but we didn’t resort to silly tropes either.

Words discussed today include fratricide, ormolu, Burke’s Law, and more.

It’s possible you’ll experience eclaircissement multiple times.

Enjoy!

Episode 72: Elegiac, thermotropism, euphonious, and more

Has someone ever called you up and asked how your day’s going, but really they just wanted to talk about what a crazy day they’re having?

There’s a word for that!

In today’s euphonious episode, Matt and Mom cover this slangy term along with elegiac, thermotropism, Occam’s Razor, and more.

Enjoy!

Episode 71: Verklempt, anon, hotch, and more

Welcome to today’s episode, where, anon, we try to equiponderate the boring side of life.

In this savory episode, we discuss fungible, the Pareto Principle, rapprochement, one of the few non-vowel words in the dictionary, and more.

Enjoy!

Episode 70: Numismatics, philately, brazier, and more!

It’s summertime here in America. That’s means it’s time to get out the brazier, ditch your recalcitrant attitude, and sit back and indulge your (perhaps nascent) love of words.

In today’s episode, Matt and Mom cover risible notions, puerile remarks, the world of numismatics and philately, and more!

At the end of the episode Mom…

Episode 69: Abstruse, griffonage, bumptious, and more!

Welcome to today’s episode — hopefully you won’t find it abstruse.

Per usual, Matt and Mom skip the histrionics and cover a range of fun adjectives like bumptious, cheeky, and ornery as well as some lesser-known nouns like griffonage and hagiography.

Whether you’re genteel or uncouth, we think you’ll find it worth your while.

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Episode 68: Musit, extirpate, extraterritoriality, and more!

Welcome to another non-lackadaislical episode with Matt and Mom.

This week Matt covers some biggies like extraterritoriality and indemnification, while mom nails some shorties — like musit and rictus — that you’ll want to add to your vocabulary quiver immediately.

Those who can overcome life’s natural indolence will experience all sorts of neuroplasticity.

Enjoy!

Episode 67: Umbra, cedilla, wunderkind, and more!

Welcome to today’s razzmatazz-filled episode! Even if you’re not a wunderkind, today you’ll disentangle the meanings of cedillas, tildas, and umlauts. (Why stay in the umbra of confusion?) Instead, your learning will be redolent of your best day in middle school.

Episode 66: Zarf, haboob, cromulent, and more!

Matt and Mom are back with another episode, and we hope it hits you like a haboob.

Don’t be abstemious. Have a seat, grab a zarf, and indulge.

We think you’ll find the mnemonics perfectly cromulent.

Enjoy!

Episode 65: Mercurial, yearling, zeitgeist, and more!

Welcome to today’s episode — hopefully it will help galvanize your week!

This episode was actually recorded years ago by Matt and Mom but will be new to you. Same basic format, but see if you notice any differences in style. And see if you can figure out which word is a repeat.

Enjoy!

Episode 64: Guessing Game #1

We’re trying something different!

In today’s episode we play a guessing game. Matt quizzes mom and five of her past words, and she does the same back.

How do we do? Listen to find out.

Whether you’ve listened to past episodes or not we think you’ll have fun playing along.

Enjoy!

Episode 63: Alee, flotsam, felicitate, and more!

On this week’s episode Matt and Mom take you on the virtual high seas.

Matt’s words all have to do with the nautical world — alee, starboard, port, etc.

Meanwhile, Mom goes meta.

If you have some flotsam and jetsam to take care of, this episode will make great company.

Enjoy!

Episode 62: Gourmand, insipid, pareidolia, and more!

Matt and Mom are back to impart a modicum of their largesse in another exciting episode complete with mnemonics, gumshoe-level analysis, and more — all free of insipid cliches and tired shibboleths.

If you’re a food lover, early riser, or one who sees objects in clouds, we have some words especially for you.

Enjoy!

Episode 61: Torpor, de rigueur, trenchant, and more!

More big news from Vocabulary Mnemonics. Last week Mom solved one of life’s great mysteries by revealing what the grooved spot above your lip is called. This week Matt does the same thing with the smooth spot between your eyebrows. Yes, it has a name and you’ll get it, and a clever way to remember…

Episode 60: Potpourri, grex, cloying, and more!

Big news! Mom figured out what the curve above your lip is called! And she came up with a great mnemonic to boot.

She breaks it down in today’s episode.

Plus, Matt and Mom dissect nine more words including potpourri, tautology, enjoin (which turns out to be another contranym, a la peruse), panoply, and…

Episode 59: Desultory, ostentatious, mentation, and more!

Matt and Mom practiced extra mentation to prepare for this week’s episode.

How do you describe a long, desultory text? When does being kempt cross over and become ostentatious?

Do you ever yen? And what in the world is an acumenate building?

You’ll get the answers to all these questions, and more, in today’s…

Episode 58: Ensorcell, polemic, diurnal, and more!

Welcome to another circumspect episode of the Vocabulary Mnemonics podcast.

Matt and Mom link up to discuss diction, polemic, diurnal, and several more goodies.

You know the feeling of sunlight on a winter day? There’s a word for that.

Have you ever read a poem that doesn’t quite rhyme but is still pleasing to…

Episode 57: Ameliorate, effete, dyspeptic, and more!

If you’re feeling dyspeptic about your lack of intellectual stimuli, perhaps the best way to ameliorate the situation is with some vocabulary.

After all, nothing boosts a fecund mind like creative mnemonics!

On today’s episode, Matt and Mom link up to discuss effete, noir, celerity, and more.

Enjoy!

Episode 56: Nonpareil, drupe, sartorial, and more!

Matt and Mom are back with another podcast episode nonpareil.

They discuss sartorial, interpolate, jentacular, and more.

One of mom’s words, friable, has nothing to do with frying. It’s what they call a “false cognate.” Same with another of her words, drupe, which doesn’t mean “to droop.”

Will this be confusing? Will you ever…

Episode 55: Eclat, comestible, taciturn, and more!

As year two of Vocabulary Mnemonics gets underway, Matt and Mom, your inveterate hosts, hope to make an eclat over the next 12 month.

They break down ten words, including monomania, excogitate, saccharine, comestible, and more.

If you’re normally taciturn, be ready to be deputed to use your favorite word this week.

Enjoy!

Episode 54: Saturnalia, concatenate, opsimath, and more!

It’s pure saturnalia here at Vocabulary Mnemonics. We just completed one year of podcasting, so we’re celebrating the only way we know how… more vocab!

Each word is concatenated in one way or another and will have you performing echolalia.

It’s been a fun year — thanks for listening. Here’s to many more!

Episode 53: Execrable, ocher, besotted, and more!

Per usual, Matt and Mom sync up to delve into ten words and give non-somnolent mnemonics for each one.

They try to avoid sesquipedalian definitions, execrable content, and performing their duties in a perfunctory way.

Stay tuned for a particularly clever penultimate word.

Enjoy!

Episode 52: Aglet, accismus, ratiocination, and more!

If, like Matt, you’ve always wondered what the little plastic thing wrapped around the end of your shoelace is called…

Or if you’ve ever said something like “I might just fade into Bolivian” (instead of “oblivion”), today’s episode is for you.

Matt and Mom sync up to discuss these words as well as ratiocination,…

Episode 51: Ennui, litotes, chimera, and more!

This week Matt and Mom sync up and give mnemonics for picayune, dolorous, conch, and several more winners.

Our hope is that you won’t experience any ennui while listening, and that it won’t be a dolorous experience. Is this nothing but a chimera? Listen to find out!

Episode 50: Eidetic, dilettante, blandishment, and more!

If you don’t have an eidetic memory, then today’s episode is for you!

Matt and Mom sync up to discuss blandishment, dilettante, malinger, obeisance, and more…

We hope you’ll be able to feel the bonhomie that flows through every mnemonic.

Enjoy!

Episode 49: Dudgeon, unclubbable, collywobbles, and more!

On today’s confabulation, Matt and Mom sync up to break down 10 new words including a fun way to say “bellyache,” what you call someone who’s not getting invited into the club, and more.

Matt also introduces “folk etymology” and provides some examples.

And as always, Mom dazzles all with the newly-named Colossal Compilation.

If…

Episode 48: Aegis, hijinks, gable

Matt and Mom link up to discuss a fun way to describe workplace shenanigans, what the “gable’ is in The House of the Seven Gables, what to call it when someone gives unwanted advice during a card game, and more.

At the end Mom leaves everything feeling good with an especially upbeat Big Sentence.

Episode 47: Zaftig, defenestrate, argot, and more!

This week we cover zaftig, zeumba, and some non-z words like argot, defenestrate, sequelae, and more.

Marilyn Monroe makes an appearance, as does the zoo, a Russian dancer named Svetlana, and a menacing rake.

During Mom’s Big Sentence she even manages to throw in a few old words for review purposes.

Enjoy!

Episode 46: New Year’s words like Tabula Rasa, eschaton, panache, and more!

Happy New Year! We hope you attack 2025 with panache, and to help you we’re breaking down ten words related to the new year.

Listen to get definitions and mnemonics for tabula rasa, eschaton, panache, Auld Lang Syne, some new words added to the dictionary in 2024, and more.

Enjoy!

Episode 44: Profligate, stoat, gossamer, and more!

It’s December! You know what that means: profligate spending, pithy Christmas cards, stoats changing colors…

We cover all this and more in today’s episode. Stay tuned to hear Mom put all ten of our words into the Big Sentence.

Enjoy!

Episode 42: Dun, noblesse oblige, propitious

It may be a vacation week in America, but vocabulary doesn’t take any days off. Thus, we feel it our noblesse oblige to provide a new episode.

This week we cover propitious, dun, salient, arcane, and more!

Enjoy!

Episode 41: Thanksgiving words: cornucopia, pemmican, and more!

With Thanksgiving coming up, we’re doing words associated with the holiday. When we say “associated with,” we’re using the term loosely, but each one does have at least some connection. The late, great William Bradford would be proud.

We break down words like tricorn, cornucopia, bewigged, and more. Feel free to use them around the…

Episode 40: Pule, bowdlerize, detritus, and more!

If you puled (or mewled) your way through the week, hopefully today’s episode will leave you leaving you feeling happy and confident enough to solve even the most difficult Gordian Knot.

We discuss epicurean, animus, cur, and more — and provide mnemonics to help you remember each one.

Enjoy!

Episode 39: Quisling, logorrhea, obambulate, and more!

This week is unintentionally tongue-twister week.

Funambulist, logorrhea, obambulate… try saying all those ten times fast.

We break down each one, and more, and give you mnemonics to help you remember them, hopefully forever.

Enjoy!

Episode 38: Election words like kakistocracy, sortition, precinct, and more!

Welcome to the least-divisive, least-political election podcast episode available today.

It’s election week here in the U.S., so we’re doing election-themed words.

Some words, like precinct, may be more familiar. But we’ve also found some lesser-known gems, like kakistocracy and hustings.

Enjoy!

Episode 36: Inure, plaudit, crepuscular, and more!

We hope to earn your plaudits with this week’s episode. We cover a wide range of words, from crepuscular to inure to ignominious and more.

Stay tuned to hear mom combine all the words together in The Big Sentence.

Enjoy!

Episode 35: Salubrious, obtuse, punctilious, and more!

If you suffer from word agoraphobia, this episode is for you. Once you hear the mnemonics for salubrious, punctilious, quixotic, coeval, and more, you’ll never be left in a panic, wondering what to say.

We also cover two words from previous episodes. We’ll pretend we did it on purpose to help you review –…

Episode 34: Promulgate, taxonomy, surmount, and more!

This week we promulgate the truism that you CAN learn vocabulary words with the best of them. So long as you’re not incorrigible, of course.

Tune in to discover mnemonics for taxonomy, promulgate, whinge,venal, acumen, and more!

Episode 32: Mawkish, aplomb, prurient, and more!

If you’ve spent the summer estivating, it’s time to get out there are start using new vocabulary words with aplomb.

We cover a redoubtable collection of words this week, including prurient, apocryphal, mawkish, and more.

Enjoy!

Episode 31: Maudlin, abattoir, grok, and more!

It’s an ad cliche to say that such and such has “something for everyone,” but that just might be true of today’s episode.

This week’s words come from many different areas of life. Whether you’re a sci-fi nerd hoping to learn Martian, a movie buff looking forward to a film’s denouement, a slaughterhouse worker…

Episode 30: elide, portmanteau, gasconade, and more!

Matt and Mom go a bit meta in today’s episode. Almost every featured word is a word about words.

You’ll discover what a diphthong is (and how to pronounce it), the difference between an aphorism and a bromide, the word to use when you want to omit a word, and more.

Enjoy!

Episode 29 (review): Ephemeral, enervate, inchoate, and more!

In this episode, we review some of our most useful words.

Some of these are words you hear in daily life but may not be comfortable using on your own. Others are less common but are great additions to your vocabulary.

If you’re a long-time listener, see how many you can remember.

Enjoy!

Episode 28: Flaneur, melee, velleity, and more!

Matt went with highly unusual words this week. Mom went with tip-of-your-tongue. Combined, they make for an eclectic collection including flaneur, velleity, melee, and more.

Somehow mom still manages to put all ten together in The Big Sentence.

Enjoy!

Episode 27: Latin week including Deus ex machina, mea culpa, and more!

While this week’s episode won’t be our magnum opus, we’re showing our bona fides with Latin words and phrases!

What do Jurassic Park and The Princess Bride have to do with the phrase Deus ex machina?

What’s the smart way to tell someone they got ripped off?

And has mom met her match, or will…

Episode 26: Hoi Polloi, pulchritudinous, recondite, and more!

Is it serendipity that brought you to today’s episode?

We’d like to think so. After all, where else can you hear pulchritudinous, hoi polloi, fetid, and seven more recondite words all used together in a surprisingly cogent sentence?

Thanks for listening — enjoy the show!

Episode 25: Verisimilitude, pentapopemtic, and more!

You’ll be glad there’s no spelling test on this week’s episode, because we discuss pentapopemptic, verisimilitude, and some other biggies.

Plus, we also reveal the REAL definition of muggle, a fancy way to talk about your trinkets, and more.

Stick around to hear mom use all ten words in The Big Sentence.

Episode 24: Prestidigitation, encomium, churlish, milieu, and more!

Will you be writing us a long encomium after listening to today’s episode?

The are manifold reasons to think so. After all, we cover everything from a vulpine smile, the fanciest way to say “environment,” churlish behavior, and more — all without prestidigitation.

Enjoy!

Episode 23: Mores, sitzmark, sedulous, hiemal, and more!

Yes, there is a word for the mark your backside leaves in the snow when you fall skiing.

No, cupidity has nothing to do with Cupid.

And most importantly, there’s a big difference between being ambidextrous and being an ambidexter.

We sort out all these issues, and more, in today’s non-hiemal episode.

Enjoy!

Episode 22: Sangfroid, clinomania, swivet, cynosure, and more!

If the work week has thrown you into a swivet, this week’s episode is sure to give you the sangfroid you need to avoid clinomania.

As always, we give you define ten hard-to-remember words and give you a clever to mnemonic to help you remember them, hopefully forever.

This week you get bonus points…

Episode 21: Patriotic Words like Yankee Doodle, fealty, usurpations, and more!

With bombs bursting all around us, we’re feeling patriotic. Hence this week’s theme of words related to the 4th of July holiday.

What exactly does it mean to be spangled? Where does fealty end and jingoism begin? And most importantly, what does McDonald’s have to do with voting?

You’ll get the answers to all these…

Episode 20: Ablute, surfeit, perspicacious, and more!

Somewhere Elmer Fudd is smiling. Mom not only discovered the true meaning of “wabbit,” she created an Elmer-Fudd themed way to remember its meaning.

We also confabulate about perspicacious investors, the antediluvian period of the Bible, why you should ablute regularly… and, of course, we do all this as magniloquently as possible.

Enjoy!

Episode 19: Convivial, bugbear, poltroon, and more!

If you have a hard time staying convivial in the face of bugbears, not to mention obsequious poltroons, or if you find yourself yearning for the halcyon days of past eons, you won’t want to miss today’s episode. Enjoy!

Episode 16: Caprice, alacrity, obstreperous, and more!

In today’s capricious episode we cover everything from sewage discharged into the sea, the favorite medicine of quacks, the murder of a king, and more.

Whether you’re hirsute or urbane, there’s something for you.

Episode 15: Bucolic, stochastic, phlegmatic, and more!

Can anything cool come from phlegm? What does a crying child have to do with the beauty of nature? And what does candle wax share with the moon?

Nonplussed? Find out the answers to these questions, and more, in today’s episode. Then, listen to Mom use all ten words in a stochastic sentence.

Episode 14: Weird Words, such as outre, sialoquent, eunoia, and more!

It’s weird week at Vocabulary Mnemonics.

After today’s episode you’ll know what to call someone who spits when he talks, how to describe things arranged in pairs, and a more specific term for cannibalism.

Stick around to hear Mom use all ten words in a particularly outré sentence.

Listen and enjoy!

Episode 13: Fastidious, jambeau, attenuate, deterge, and more!

Was the real reason Achilles died because of a jambeau error? Do an umpire and an electromagnetic pulse have something in common? What’s Yoda’s response to a tired Jedi? And can saying the word “uncouth” cause you to be uncouth?

You’ll find out the answers to these questions and much more in today’s episode. Enjoy!

Episode 9: Inexorable, garish, licentious, cad, and more!

Episode 9 features some “bad” words like licentious and cad, some clear words like lucid and limpid, inevitable words like inexorable, and more!. Stick around for Dr. Mom using all ten words in a surprisingly lucid sentence.

Episode 7: Knotty, apposite, and more!

Looking for the apposite response to a knotty problem?

Want to be able to remember the definitions of abasement, inveigle, and parsimonious?

Tune in to this week’s episode for all this and more!

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