Matt and Mom are coming to you today with their most stentorian voices.Words featured include specter, intaglio, mendacity, Jeremiad, and more. Plus, they crack the code on what to call America's 250 birthday and reveal what the upside down "e" in phonetic spelling is called. Programming note: next week will be a review game of the past 10 episodes (episodes 81-90), with Matt and Mom try to stump each other. Be ready to play along -- you can review the words beforehand or come in cold. Get

Today's episode has a portentous feel to it... because today's first word is portentous.Matt and Mom break down ten lesser-known vocabulary words including acquisitive, pallid, esprit de corps, shoal, kwashiorkor, and more, and give you a clever mnemonic to help you remember the meaning of each one. Watch out for Willy Wonka getting blown over by a big gust of wind. Enjoy!

Ready to get your adrenals pumping? You've come to the right place. In today's non-atavistic, fast-paced episode, Matt and Mom cover 10 interesting vocabulary words and answer life's big, burning questions, including: What do the FBI and SCUBA diving have do with each other? The answer has nothing to do with underwater espionage. Does the word "redoubt" involve doubting something twice? If you think the English language is missing a word, are you allowed to make one up? Get the answers and

We hope you're full of brio this week and ready to sally forth into the exciting world of vocab. In today's episode Matt and Mom break down the difference between running errands and errantry, why it's critical to know if your doctor is prescribing or proscribing medicine, why you should run as fast as you can if you ever hear someone yell "gardyloo," and more... Enjoy!

If your podcasts are starting to sound like a monolith, you've come to the right place. This has to be the only podcast episode in the world with full breakdowns of gems like fartlek, turpitude, solipsism, pons asinorum, and more... All without interstitial ads. Enjoy!

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!

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!

Professor/publisher/author/OED consultant Ilan Stavans has written books about all three of the languages he speaks: his native Mexican Spanish, his heritage Yiddish, and his adopted English. In Episode 78, Ilan and Steve have a far-ranging conversation that touches on how American literature is becoming multilingual literature, why prescriptive dictionaries don’t work for English, and the secret to seeing your children embrace the language of their heritage. Listen and you’ll soon know why America

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

I'm so excited to bring you my chat with Lindsay McMahon, the founder and cohost of the All Ears English Podcast. In this podcast English Lesson, you'll hear a natural English conversation between two native English speakers. We're talking about life in Japan, cultural differences and similarities, how things have changed in 25 years and how things have stayed the same. Use my AI English Tutor HEREJoin my Podcast Learner's Study Group here: https://learn.myhappyenglish.com/transcriptVisit my website

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!