Vocabulary Mnemonics

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!

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!

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!

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...

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!

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!

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.

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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. En...

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!

Matt and Mom practiced extra mentation to prepare for this week's episode. How do you describe a long, desultory text? When does being kempt cross over and become ostentatious? Do you ever yen? And what in the world is an acumenate building? You'll get the answers to all these questions, and more, in today's episode. Enjoy!

Welcome to another circumspect episode of the Vocabulary Mnemonics podcast. Matt and Mom link up to discuss diction, polemic, diurnal, and several more goodies. You know the feeling of sunlight on a winter day? There's a word for that. Have you ever read a poem that doesn't quite rhyme but is still pleasing to the ear? There's a word for that too. Prepare to be ensorcelled!

If you're feeling dyspeptic about your lack of intellectual stimuli, perhaps the best way to ameliorate the situation is with some vocabulary. After all, nothing boosts a fecund mind like creative mnemonics! On today's episode, Matt and Mom link up to discuss effete, noir, celerity, and more. Enjoy!

Matt and Mom are back with another podcast episode nonpareil. They discuss sartorial, interpolate, jentacular, and more. One of mom's words, friable, has nothing to do with frying. It's what they call a "false cognate." Same with another of her words, drupe, which doesn't mean "to droop." Will this be confusing? Will you ever be able to remember the true definition? Tune in to find out... Enjoy!

As year two of Vocabulary Mnemonics gets underway, Matt and Mom, your inveterate hosts, hope to make an eclat over the next 12 month. They break down ten words, including monomania, excogitate, saccharine, comestible, and more. If you're normally taciturn, be ready to be deputed to use your favorite word this week. Enjoy!

It's pure saturnalia here at Vocabulary Mnemonics. We just completed one year of podcasting, so we're celebrating the only way we know how... more vocab! Each word is concatenated in one way or another and will have you performing echolalia. It's been a fun year -- thanks for listening. Here's to many more!

Per usual, Matt and Mom sync up to delve into ten words and give non-somnolent mnemonics for each one. They try to avoid sesquipedalian definitions, execrable content, and performing their duties in a perfunctory way. Stay tuned for a particularly clever penultimate word. Enjoy!

If, like Matt, you've always wondered what the little plastic thing wrapped around the end of your shoelace is called... Or if you've ever said something like "I might just fade into Bolivian" (instead of "oblivion"), today's episode is for you. Matt and Mom sync up to discuss these words as well as ratiocination, insolent, extant, accismus, and several more. Enjoy!

This week Matt and Mom sync up and give mnemonics for picayune, dolorous, conch, and several more winners. Our hope is that you won't experience any ennui while listening, and that it won't be a dolorous experience. Is this nothing but a chimera? Listen to find out!