Podcast Episodes

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 halc…

1 year, 6 months ago

Episode 18: Uxorious, avant-garde, impertinent, and more!

In today's bespoke episode, we cover everything from the vagaries of life to uxorious husbands to vapid conversations. We have the temerity to hope i…

1 year, 6 months ago

Episode 17: Sclerotic, bellicose, mountebank, and more!

1 year, 6 months ago

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 mor…

1 year, 7 months ago

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? Nonp…

1 year, 7 months ago

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 arra…

1 year, 7 months ago

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 resp…

1 year, 7 months ago

Episode 12: Fancy yet easy to remember: Legerdemain, tatterdemalion, paucity, and more!

Today we focus on words that sound fancy and complicated but are quite simple to remember. Oftentimes the mnemonic is right in the word. If you've e…

1 year, 8 months ago

Episode 11: Ephemeral, caustic, peregrinations, affect/effect, and more!

Whether you're looking to have your ephemeral learning needs met or are seeking some entertainment during a peregrination in the South Pacific, this …

1 year, 8 months ago

Episode 10: Erudite, leviathan, motif, mitigate, and more!

This week we have some erudite words for our book smart listeners, some enigmatic words for our mysterious listeners, and we even throw in a pinnace …

1 year, 8 months ago