Enlarge Your Vocabulary
door Floydius-Maximus Jeremy Thomas Jefferson
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60 Seconds with Floydius-Maximus Jeremy Thomas Jefferson
60 Seconds with Floydius-Maximus Jeremy Thomas Jefferson
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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!
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- 60 Seconds with Floydius-Maximus Jeremy Thomas Jefferson · 3 min · Aflevering 309'Sixty seconds? It takes almost sixty seconds to say your name!' 'Oh... very droll. Very droll indeed.' Audiobook Readings: Book readings taken from the public domain and…
- Ahoy-Ahoy! · 9 min · Aflevering 308'.... rriiiiing ... rriiiing' 'Ahoy — Ahoy!' 'Who on earth answers their phone like that?' 'It's my new way of answering the phone.' 'Okay, that’s it — you’ve really gone bananas…
- Halcyon · 7 min · Aflevering 306'Oh, yes... the halcyon days were the best days.' 'I agree, but they wouldn't have been anything without the kingfishers.' 'Kingfishers?'
- Fortuitous · 11 min · Aflevering 298‘How could you say it was fortuitous that he broke his finger? What a thing to say – that's hardly good luck!’ ‘Exactly... that's what I said.’ ‘No, you said it was fortuitous!’…
- Deipnosophist · 8 min · Aflevering 296Deipnosophist ... and the story of how today's word became today's word!
- Words in Action | Episode One: Room 17 · 10 min · Aflevering 292Words in Action A mystery involving four words!
- Copacetic · 7 min · Aflevering 291‘Look at old Roger out there basking in the sun — he looks perfectly copacetic.’ ‘Oh, do you think he should move into the shade, then?’
- Supercilious · 7 min · Aflevering 290‘Matha, don’t you find Stanley a rather boring supercilious?’ ‘No, I don’t think so — I think he’s more of a super-silly soddiest.’ ‘Oh dear… is there such a word?’
- Lackadaisical · 10 min · Aflevering 288‘Charge your glasses, ladies and gentlemen, and raise a toast to the motto of the unhurried, who prefer not to seize the day but would rather—Neglige diem!’
- Impecunious · 8 min · Aflevering 284Impecunious : im-pih-KYOO-nee-uhs ‘Fancy a bite to eat?’ ‘I would, but I’m feeling rather… impecunious.’ ‘Impecunious? That sounds expensive.’ ‘On the contrary, my good…
- Fidelity · 10 min · Aflevering 282"Holy doghouse, Batman! This looks like a pet cemetery—with all these statues of dogs on the graves!’ ‘Not quite, Boy Wonder… you’re barking up the wrong tree.’ ‘Gosh—then what…
- Gregorios · 7 min · Aflevering 272Meanwhile, at the headquarters of ‘We Get the Truth Inc’: ‘Chief, the algorithms are inconclusive. The lie detectors are baffled. We simply cannot be sure he’s telling the…
- Mellifluous · 8 min · Aflevering 270‘She has such a euphonious voice.’ ‘What? Nonsense — she has magical dulcet tones.’ ‘Blimey, next you’ll be telling me she has a sonorous voice.’ ‘You’re all wrong. Her voice is…
- Surveillance · 8 min · Aflevering 268'I’m off to town, love.' 'Take care — it’s rough downtown nowadays.' 'No need to worry, dear. Big Brother has me — and everyone else — under surveillance. They’re always watching…
- Cupidity · 7 min · Aflevering 260'While Cupid sends arrows of love, watch out — cupidity can have a nasty sting!'
- Schadenfreude · 9 min · Aflevering 256Terry: By Jove, that was quite an email, Ken. I’m sure Sue will be moved. Ken: You read my private email? Terry: You accidentally sent it to the entire office staff. Ken: No…
- Pulchritudinous. · 8 min · Aflevering 252Pulchritudinous. 'puhl·kruh·choo·duh·nuhs' ‘‘Did you hear Marie has opened a new flower shop?’ ‘No, what’s it called?’ ‘The Pulchritudinous Florist.’ ‘Who, Marie or the flowers?’…
- Loquacious / Loquacity / Loquaciousness · 3 min · Aflevering 248Even at a young age, Sally was delightfully loquacious and engaging.
