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
A Dogs Tale
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Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, was a celebrated American writer and humorist, best known for "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Fin…
The Man from Ironbark
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Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson, CBE (17 February 1864 – 5 February 1941), was an Australian bush poet, journalist, and author widely considered one of Australia's greatest writers. He is note…
Quotidian
'What's Nigel doing over there?' 'He's making his way through the quotidian!'
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Puck!
'He's a funny puck, isn't he?'
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The Book of Grotesque
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Sherwood Anderson was an American author born on September 13, 1876, and died on March 8, 1941. He is best known for his influential work 'Winesburg, Ohio,' published in 1919, which explores …
Dulcarnon
'A dilemma or a dulcarnon? What’s the cuckoo got to do with it?'
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Flabbergasted
'Meet 'flabbergasted' - the ultimate reaction when you find out your cat secretly runs a successful online business!'
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Pogonophile
'Bill, the carefree pogonophile, takes great pleasure in proudly displaying his pogonotrophy for the world to admire!'
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Hunted Down by Charles Dickens
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Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victoria…
Love is the best -You know it is!
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'Who doesn't want a bit more love?'
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Evelyn McHale & 'the most beautiful suicide'
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Evelyn Francis McHale (September 20, 1923 – May 1, 1947) was an American book-keeper who jumped to her death from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. Robert Wiles, a…
Makes the World Kin by O. Henry
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O. Henry, the pen name of William Sydney Porter, was an American short story writer known for his wit, wordplay, and twist endings. He was born on September 11, 1862. O. Henry’s stories often…
Bounteous-Hearted
'There goes Grantos, one rare diamond, a truly special individual indeed!'
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Overcoming Self-Doubt!
Self-doubt has a loud voice—here’s a way to silence it!
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Embracing Change
Change is a component of time, and since time is always changing, so is the world we live in!
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Fickle
'Blimey, they cancelled again? Well, one thing can be said about Freddy and the Fickle: they are consistent!'
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Jocund
'Who doesn't love to be in their company? They're such a jocund couple!'
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Growing Strong!
Grow strong from where you are!
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Rumination
'Nigel, your endless rumination will surely lead to your ruination!'
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Ninnyhammer
'Poor Carl, he's a right old ninnyhammer!'
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