Enlarge Your Vocabulary
The focus here is to revive some of the fabulously interesting words of yesterday, words that have fallen out of fashion. If you’d like to enlarge your vocabulary, while adding colour to your conversations, then you are in the right place!
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 6 minutes
- Episodes
- 91
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
60 Seconds with Floydius-Maximus Jeremy Thomas Jefferson
'Sixty seconds? It takes almost 60 seconds to say your name!' 'Oh, how very droll!'
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60 Seconds with Floydius-Maximus Jeremy Thomas Jefferson
'Sixty seconds? It takes almost 60 seconds to say your name!' 'Oh, how very droll!'
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© The recording may not be altered or used for commercial gain without the express written permission of Floydius…
Callow
'Since the report leaked a week ago, we’ve had no flights landing at our airport, Reggie… perhaps hiring callow fellows wasn’t the smartest move after all.'
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60 Seconds with Floydius-Maximus Jeremy Thomas Jefferson
'Sixty seconds? It takes almost 60 seconds to say your name!' 'Oh, how very droll!'
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© The recording may not be altered or used for commercial gain without the express written permission of Floydius…
The Maori's Wool
Reading - Studio Version
Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson, CBE (17 February 1864 – 5 February 1941). The Maori’s Wool was first published in The Sydney Mail on March 13, 1897.
Banjo Paterson’s “The Mao…
The Maori's Wool
Reading
The Maori's Wool - Down the Wire Version.
Note: The reading was recorded with faint vinyl effect in the background.
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Abecedarian
‘Allan, how could you tell me to go there? I thought you said he was a good dentist!’
‘He is – he showed me his abecedarian certificate that he got just last week!’
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60 Seconds with Floydius-Maximus Jeremy Thomas Jefferson
'Sixty seconds? It takes almost 60 seconds to say your name!' 'Oh, how very droll!'
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© The recording may not be altered or used for commercial gain without the express written permission of Floydius…
Garbist
‘Dolly, why so many tears?’
‘It’s Archibald. He’s always written the sweetest letters to me, but in this letter, he’s called me the Queen of Garbage! How could he?’
‘Let me see the letter.’
‘No, Doll…
60 Seconds with Floydius-Maximus Jeremy Thomas Jefferson
'Sixty seconds? It takes almost 60 seconds to say your name!' 'Oh, how very droll!'
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Porciloquent
'Pete's perfectly punctuated porciloquence left them all in awe! So much said in so few words!'
(Apologies for mother's interference!)
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60 Seconds with Floydius-Maximus Jeremy Thomas Jefferson
'Sixty seconds? It takes almost 60 seconds to say your name!' 'Oh, how very droll!'
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Indefatigable
'His indefatigability left the indefatigable indefatigably exhausted; for never in the history of the indefatigable had such indefatigableness been witnessed!'
Note: You may struggle to find the noun…
60 Seconds with Floydius-Maximus Jeremy Thomas Jefferson
'Sixty seconds? It takes almost 60 seconds to say your name!' 'Oh, how very droll!'
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© The recording may not be altered or used for commercial gain without the express written permission of Floydius…
Persiflage
‘I wouldn’t go in there if I were you.’
‘Oh? Why ever not?’
‘Your persiflage about her cooking hasn’t exactly gone down well with Aunt Martha.’
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60 Seconds with Floydius-Maximus Jeremy Thomas Jefferson
'Sixty seconds? It takes almost 60 seconds to say your name!' 'Oh, how very droll!'
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Recalcitrant
Recalcitrant: adjective meaning 'stubbornly uncooperative'—much like your Wi-Fi when you need it most!
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60 Seconds with Floydius-Maximus Jeremy Thomas Jefferson
'Sixty seconds? It takes almost 60 seconds to say your name!' 'Oh, how very droll!'
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© The recording may not be altered or used for commercial gain without the express written permission of Floydius…
How does a word become a word?
It’s not as simple as saying it out loud—though that’s a start. In this episode, we trace the curious path from playful coinage to dictionary legitimacy. Along the way, we meet words that sneaked in,…
Gossipient
Gossipient (First public use: 6 July 2025 – Enlarge Your Vocabulary, Episode 71)
gossipient (adj.) /ˈɡɒ.sɪ.pi.ənt/ ‘GOSS-ih-pee-ənt’
Actively inclined …