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Fun With Stories: Vocabulary Stories

Welcome to Fun With Stories ✨🎡—the podcast where every word sparks a fun adventure! Perfect for curious kids 🧠🌈, each episode tells a short, exciting story that teaches a new word naturally. Laugh 😂, learn 📚, and grow 🌱 through magical journeys with a recap that covers 📣 pronunciation, 📝 spelling, and 💬 examples. 🗺️ One word. One story. A world of wonder. 🌟 👉 Visit FunWithStories.com for more! 🔔 Follow & Subscribe so you never miss an episode!

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00:02:55

docile - vocabulary stories

Fun With Stories: Vocabulary Stories ·

2025/12/12

@FunWithStoriesApp 🤖🛠️ A shiny robot. A Martian dust storm. And a word that proves obedience isn’t always an advantage.When Theo and his mum buy the X-47 robot—advertised as perfectly obedient—they think they’ve found the ideal helper for life on Mars.But there’s a catch: the robot is so docile it follows every command exactly… even the confusing, dangerous, or completely wrong ones. 😬🌪️Docile means easily taught, led, or managed. It also means obedient.From fixing oxygen filters step-by-step

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00:02:49

candour - vocabulary stories

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2025/12/11

🍽️🤣 A disastrous dinner. A brave boy. And a word that proves honesty can save the day.Twelve-year-old Callum is trapped in a culinary nightmare: Aunt Beatrice’s “experimental tuna surprise.”One sniff and he knows—this dish is a crime against humanity. 😵🐟🔥He remembers the word he learned at school: candour.Candour means being open and honest in expression. It also means frankness.And with one truthful (and slightly dramatic) sentence, Callum finally tells Aunt Bea the real truth about her

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00:02:51

zeitgeist - vocabulary stories

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2025/12/10

📸✨ A forgotten photograph. A mother’s memories. And a word that captures an entire era.When Bella discovers an old picture of her mum as a 12-year-old—sparkly tracksuits, butterfly clips, and pure 90s magic—she unlocks a story about a time filled with hope, pop music, and Y2K excitement.Her mum explains that it was all part of the zeitgeist of the late 1990s.Zeitgeist means the defining spirit or mood of a particular time in history.From riding bikes and trading Pokémon cards to dreaming of the

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00:02:49

baffle - vocabulary stories

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2025/12/09

🥭😮 A baffling mystery. A mango heist. And a thief with terrible logic.Amina is completely confused when she discovers that all of her grandmother’s ripe mangoes have vanished overnight—only to be replaced with unripe ones tied to the branches with string. Who steals fruit… and then decorates the tree? 🤨🪢🍃Baffle means to confuse or perplex someone completely.Until… she hears giggling.There, by the roadside, sits her little brother Kamau and his friends—faces sticky, surrounded by mango peels

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00:02:49

disdain - vocabulary stories

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2025/12/08

🐱🍽️ A picky cat. A frustrated owner. And a week full of dramatic food rejections.Nadia’s cat, Sir Whiskers the Third, had mastered one skill better than any creature alive: disdain.Every morning she offered him perfectly good cat food… and every morning he sniffed, glared, and walked away like the bowl had deeply offended him. 😼💢Disdain means the feeling that someone or something is unworthy of respect. It also means contempt.Monday: salmon? ❌Tuesday: chicken in gravy? ❌Wednesday: tuna surprise

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00:02:50

arbitrary - vocabulary stories

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2025/12/05

🏛️⚖️ A town ruled by nonsense. A girl who finally says “enough.” And a spark of rebellion born from one brave voice.Every morning, Lena walks to the town square with a sinking feeling in her stomach. The Council posts new rules daily — and they make zero sense.No speaking before noon if you’re born in autumn. 🚫🗣️Anyone wearing blue must walk backwards. 🔵↩️Kids with names starting with M can skip school entirely. 🎒✨People keep losing their food rations over mistakes no one could predict. It’s

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00:02:50

afflict - vocabulary stories

Fun With Stories: Vocabulary Stories ·

2025/12/04

👑💤 A silent kingdom. A brave princess. And a curse that puts an entire realm to sleep.Princess Rosalind is one of the only people left awake after a dark sorcerer’s spell sweeps across the land. Everyone she loves lies frozen in an eerie, enchanted slumber — her parents, her friends, even the cook who always saved her extra honey cakes.Afflict means to cause pain or suffering to. It also means to distress greatly.With the knight’s glowing amulet to guide her, she straps on her boots, picks up her

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00:02:49

clandestine - vocabulary stories

Fun With Stories: Vocabulary Stories ·

2025/12/03

🌙🦌 A secret garden, a wounded deer, and a boy with a heart far braver than he realises.Tomás spends every night slipping quietly into the moonlit garden, visiting the deer he once rescued. It’s his hidden ritual, something tender and healing that he keeps entirely to himself… until his mother notices the truth in his tired eyes.She gently tells him he’s been doing something clandestine.Clandestine means kept secret or done secretly, especially because it is illicit. It also means hidden for a

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00:02:50

barren - vocabulary stories

Fun With Stories: Vocabulary Stories ·

2025/12/01

🌅🌰 A quiet valley. A hopeful grandfather. And one tiny acorn that might change everything.Every evening, Antonio sits with his grandfather on a hillside overlooking a dry, empty valley — a place once full of life but now completely barren.Barren means unable to produce vegetation or offspring. It also means unproductive or unfruitful — a place where nothing seems to grow.But Grandfather has hope. The rains have finally returned, and in Antonio’s hand he places a single acorn. “Nothing stays

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languid - vocabulary stories

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2025/11/28

🐾☀️ A sizzling hot day. A super-energetic cat. And suddenly… zero energy at all!The liveliest cat on Maple Street could usually outrun butterflies and sprint across fences like lightning. But today, the sun turned everything into a baking oven — and even blinking felt like a workout.She wasn’t lazy. She wasn’t sick.She was languid.Soon she and the neighbour’s dog lay flopped under the apple tree, moving as slowly as honey dripping from a spoon. But once the cool evening breeze arrived… WHOOSH

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00:02:50

abolish - vocabulary stories

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2025/11/27

📚😄 A bold plan. A dramatic announcement. And a ten-year-old determined to change the school forever!Tyreece Carter marched into assembly waving a very official-looking petition. Mrs Davies raised an eyebrow. “Abolish? Really, Tyreece?”Abolish means to formally put an end to something — and Tyreece fully intended to end homework, Brussels sprouts, and maybe even that annoying “Wheels on the Bus” song.But when his friends pointed out that abolishing homework might also mean longer lessons… and no

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00:02:50

expedite - vocabulary stories

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2025/11/25

🐎⚡ A stormy morning. A daring rider. And a word that means speeding things up — expedite!In 1860, young Pony Express rider Johnny was given an urgent message.“Ride fast,” his boss said. “We must expedite this delivery!”Expedite means to speed up the progress of something — to do it faster and more efficiently. ⚡📩Johnny switched horses at record speed, raced over prairies, and took the shortest trails through the mountains. Every choice helped expedite his journey across America.After days of

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00:02:49

masticate - vocabulary stories

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2025/11/24

🍗😂 A bossy dad. A fancy new word. And a Sunday dinner that turns into a chewing crisis!Every week, Grandad Angus could predict Dad’s speeches. But this time, Gran arrived with a new word from her doctor: masticate.Dad’s eyes sparkled. “Masticate! So much better than chew! From now on, everyone must masticate properly!”Finn groaned as Dad counted every bite like a drill sergeant. Even Grandad wasn’t spared.Masticate means to chew food. 😄🦷By dessert, Dad had announced the word at least twenty

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00:03:14

nauseous - vocabulary stories

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2025/11/21

🎡🤢 A dizzy challenge. A spinning disaster. And a word that describes that awful “uh-oh-my-stomach” feeling — nauseous! 😵✨Leah and Habib were determined to break the school roundabout record. But by spin fifteen, they stumbled off, holding their stomachs.“I feel absolutely nauseous,” Habib groaned. Leah nodded, eyes wobbling.To feel nauseous means to feel sick to your stomach — like you might throw up. 🤢Sailor Diego, watching nearby, explained, “Your inner ears are still spinning even though

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00:02:50

panorama - vocabulary stories

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2025/11/20

🎨🌍 A giant painting. A mind-blown crowd. And a word that means seeing everything at once — panorama! 😲✨In 1787, artist Robert Barker wanted more than a simple picture — he wanted people to feel like they were standing on a hilltop, seeing the whole world spread around them.A year later, he unveiled something no one had ever seen: a massive circular painting that wrapped around the viewer like a 360° world. People stepped onto the platform and gasped — the city stretched in every

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00:02:49

flagrant - vocabulary stories

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2025/11/19

🍳🐱 A bold cat. A stolen breakfast. And a word that means doing something outrageously out in the open — flagrant! 😅🔥One Tuesday morning, the Fred family stared in shock as their usually polite cat hopped onto the table… and started eating Mr. Fred’s scrambled eggs right in front of them!“That's flagrant!” Mrs. Fred gasped.Flagrant means something obviously wrong or offensive — done boldly without hiding it.The cat munched happily, totally unbothered by the horrified humans watching her steal

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00:02:49

dismal - vocabulary stories

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2025/11/18

🌧️😔 A cancelled fair. A gloomy sky. And a word that describes something utterly dreary — dismal!Sophie watched the garden fade behind a curtain of rain. “What a dismal day,” Mummy sighed, as the village fair was cancelled.Dismal means causing a mood of gloom or misery.Sophie slumped onto the sofa. No carousel, no candy floss, no fun — just a dismal Saturday that felt as grey as the clouds. Daddy rushed to the attic and returned with a dusty box. “My old magic set!”Soon the living room became a

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00:02:49

innocuous - vocabulary stories

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2025/11/17

🎄✨ A Christmas wish. A worried brother. And a word that means completely harmless — innocuous! ❄️💫The Bennett family was gathered around their cozy dinner table when little Oliver grinned, “I hope we get snow this Christmas!”It sounded like such an innocuous wish — totally harmless and sweet. (Innocuous means not harmful or offensive.)But Thomas stiffened. He remembered the year a snowstorm cancelled their trip… and this year, his best friend was visiting. What if heavy snow ruined things again

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00:02:50

avid - vocabulary stories

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2025/11/14

📚✨ A quiet playdate. Two different hobbies. And a word that means being super enthusiastic about something — avid! 🌟Liam loved rocks — shiny ones, rough ones, colourful ones. He was an avid rock collector.Arjun loved books — especially Harry Potter. He was an avid reader. 📖💫Avid means having or showing a keen interest or enthusiasm for something.At first, the boys sat silently… until Arjun spotted a glowing red stone. “Is that the Philosopher’s Stone?” he gasped.Liam grinned. “It’s a replica

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00:02:49

amalgamate - vocabulary stories

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2025/11/13

🍫🇨🇭 From a tiny workshop in Switzerland came a world-changing treat!In 1875, a young chocolatier named Daniel Peter dreamed of making chocolate smoother and sweeter — but every attempt failed. Fresh milk spoiled his chocolate, and nothing would mix right. His workshop was filled with the smell of burnt sugar and frustration. 😩Daniel tried again — something magical happened: the ingredients began to amalgamate — to combine or unite into one smooth, creamy mass. ✨When Daniel tasted his creation,

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