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Back to SearchEpisode 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 …
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
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…
Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago
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 mn…
Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago
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 cal…
Published on 9 months, 4 weeks ago
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, sacc…
Published on 10 months ago
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 anot…
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago
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 …
Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago
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" (inste…
Published on 10 months, 4 weeks ago
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 dolo…
Published on 11 months ago
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 bo…
Published on 11 months, 1 week ago