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Matt & Dr. Mom
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From legerdemain to scrupulousness, from tatterdemalion to kempt, we have the memory tools to help you remember GRE vocabulary, Latin and Greek phrases, medical terms and more -- forever.
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27 September 2025
Episode 85: Maw, triptych, obelus, and more…
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!
27 min
20 September 2025
Episode 84: Bathetic, Veblen Good, Furcula, and more
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!
21 min
13 September 2025
Episode 83: Vermilion, mirth, expostulate, and more
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!
25 min
06 September 2025
Episode 82: insipient, zhuzh, simulacrum, and more
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!
28 min
30 August 2025
Episode 81: Review game #2
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!
25 min
23 August 2025
Episode 80: Lagniappe, inimical, unctuous, and more
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!
23 min
16 August 2025
Episode 79: Holus Bolus, excursive, soothfast, and more
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!
25 min
09 August 2025
Episode 78: Mot Juste, purloin, demotic, and more
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!
25 min
02 August 2025
Episode 77: Kompromat, deign, merism, and more!
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!
23 min
26 July 2025
Episode 76: Neophyte, sublebrity, Quaker Gun, and more
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!
24 min