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Vocabulary Mnemonics

From legerdemain to scrupulousness, from tatterdemalion to kempt, we have the memory tools to help you remember GRE vocabulary, Latin and Greek phrases, medical terms and more -- forever.

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25:58

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

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

2025/08/16

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!

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25:34

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

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2025/08/09

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 more. Enjoy!

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23:09

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

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2025/08/02

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!

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24:46

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

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2025/07/26

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!

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21:26

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

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2025/07/19

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!

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22:14

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

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

2025/07/12

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!

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29:10

Episode 73: Elucubrate, trope, eclaircissement, and more

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2025/07/05

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!

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23:44

Episode 72: Elegiac, thermotropism, euphonious, and more

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

2025/06/28

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!

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26:44

Episode 71: Verklempt, anon, hotch, and more

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2025/06/21

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!

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28:37

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

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2025/06/14

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 manages to put them all together in an impressive Colossal Compilation. Enjoy!

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21:17

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

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

2025/06/07

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. Enjoy!

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20:55

Episode 68: Musit, extirpate, extraterritoriality,...

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

2025/05/31

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!

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20:15

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

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2025/05/24

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.

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25:08

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

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2025/05/17

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!

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18:00

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

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

2025/05/10

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!

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14:16

Episode 64: Guessing Game #1

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

2025/05/03

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!

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29:49

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

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

2025/04/26

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!

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28:19

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

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

2025/04/19

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!

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26:30

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

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2025/04/12

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 it, in today's episode.Plus, they break down torpor, de rigueur, trenchant, precocious, and more. Enjoy!

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23:31

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

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2025/04/05

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 more. Enjoy!

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