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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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27:23

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

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

2025/09/27

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!

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21:42

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

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

2025/09/20

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. Plus, they give mnemonics for raconteur, comeuppance, peremptory, and more. Enjoy!

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25:47

Episode 83: Vermilion, mirth, expostulate, and more

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

2025/09/13

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!

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28:49

Episode 82: insipient, zhuzh, simulacrum, and more

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

2025/09/06

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!

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25:56

Episode 81: Review game #2

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

2025/08/30

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!

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23:27

Episode 80: Lagniappe, inimical, unctuous, and more

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

2025/08/23

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!

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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

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

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!

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

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

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

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

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

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

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

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

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

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!

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

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!

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

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!

Vocabulary Mnemonics ·

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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