Vince's Vocab Podcast

Group 31 is here.

Vince works through the next set of words from the GregMat Vocab Mountain with definitions, examples, word origins, and mnemonics to make them easier to remember.

This group includes words like abrogate, aghast, apprise, beguile, callous, coddle, extenuating, frenetic, hapless, obfuscate, ossify, pastiche, perspicacious, recluse, serendipitous, sinecure, sordid, surfeit, ulterior, voluble, and more.

Along the way, Vince uses memory hooks like a broken gate for abrogate, “be gullible” for beguile, a callus on your soul for callous, “paste each” for pastiche, a brown recluse spider for recluse, and a sine wave for sinuous.

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Group 30 is here.

Vince works through the next 30 words from the GregMat Vocab Mountain, using definitions, examples, word origins, and mnemonics to make them easier to remember.

This group includes words like aberrant, abide, bravado, callow, capitulate, cogitate, factious, fallow, feint, flagrant, gratuitous, grovel, indecorous, intrigue, nominal, obdurate, obstreperous, odious, plucky, precocious, remuneration, soliloquy, spurn, stolid, temerity, tenuous, verve, and more.

Along the way, Vince comes up with memory hooks like the aberrant ant, the brave avocado, gears turning while you cogitate, the flagrant foul, and a few others that are much easier to remember than a definition on a page.

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Vince works through the next 30 words from the GregMat Vocab Mountain with definitions, examples, word origins, and mnemonics to make the words easier to remember.

This group includes words like abscond, apogee, aspersion, bawdy, chagrin, collude, commiserate, conflagration, contretemps, conviction, croon, depose, détente, dowdy, echelon, ennui, expatiate, fraught, fulcrum, imbroglio, jocund, languish, nadir, nimble, ominous, outlandish, propitious, prurient, sadistic, and zenith. Greg Mat+ Community Forum

Along the way, Vince uses everything from a scone thief and Frank Sinatra to the Nimbus 2000 and “pure I ain’t” as memory hooks. He finishes by running through the full group again with short definitions.

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Vince works through the next set of words from the GregMat Vocab Mountain, using definitions, examples, word origins, and mnemonics to help make the words easier to remember.

This group includes words like abeyance, abstract, affront, august, burnish, endemic, enmity, impudent, inchoate, quandary, quash, redoubtable, sophistry, substantiate, wily, and more.

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Vince goes through the next set of vocabulary words with clear definitions, examples, word origins, and mnemonics.

This episode includes words like antagonize, barren, bombastic, cajole, chary, curmudgeon, dirge, estimable, euphemism, excoriate, exigent, haughty, heady, imperturbable, implacable, and more.

Keep the vocab list nearby, listen along, and see which meanings you can get before Vince explains them.

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Vince works through the next set of words from the GregMat Vocab Mountain, taking them one at a time and giving you more time with the words than you’d get from simply staring at a list.

This group includes words like apprehension, ardent, axiomatic, doctrinaire, eclectic, equanimity, exorbitant, fickle, idiosyncratic, lampoon, lugubrious, macabre, officious, serene, tacit, transcend, treatise, and more.

Keep the vocab list nearby while you listen and see which meanings you can get before moving on. If a word still feels shaky, mark it and give it another pass later.

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Vince works through the next 30 words from the GregMat Vocab Mountain, taking them one at a time and using examples, word connections, and memory tricks to make the tougher ones easier to hold onto.

This group includes words like adept, auspicious, bereft, captious, conclusive, conspire, delineate, disentangle, exhort, frailty, harangue, pomposity, steadfast, vitality, whimsical, yield, and more.

Keep the vocab list open while you listen and try to get to the meaning before Vince does. If one of the words keeps slipping, make a note of it and come back to it later.

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Vince takes the next set of GregMat vocab words one by one, talking through what they mean and finding useful connections, examples, and mnemonics along the way.

This group includes words like assail, benevolent, berate, buoyant, buttress, condone, denounce, disinterested, mercurial, poignant, quiescent, reiterate, surmount, tangential, and more.

Keep the vocab list open while you listen and try to come up with the meaning before Vince gets to it. If a word still trips you up, mark it and come back to it later.

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Vince works through the next set of words from the GregMat Vocab Mountain, taking them one at a time with definitions, examples, word connections, and different ways to make them easier to remember.

This group includes words like allusive, astute, convalescent, decry, duress, evoke, fawn, glib, headstrong, intermittent, ire, mollify, nonplussed, precipitous, pretentious, profound, propagate, repercussion, replenish, vigilant, and more.

Keep the vocab list nearby while you listen and see which words you already know before Vince gets to them. For the ones that still feel unfamiliar, make a note and come back to them later.

Continue with Vince’s Vocab Podcast:
https://www.gregmat.com/course/vinces-vocab-podcast

Practice with Vocab Mountain:
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Vince works through the next set of words from the GregMat Vocab Mountain, using definitions, examples, word origins, and mnemonics to make the tougher ones easier to remember.

This group includes words like arresting, chastise, cumbersome, embellish, euphoric, exonerate, extrapolate, falter, fervent, foment, gaffe, heterodox, histrionic, obstinate, prodigious, propensity, qualm, vivacious, and more.

Keep the vocab list nearby while you listen and see which words you can define before Vince gets to them. If one still feels shaky, that’s probably the one worth coming back to.

Continue with Vince’s Vocab Podcast:
https://www.gregmat.com/course/vinces-vocab-podcast

Practice with Vocab Mountain:
https://www.gregmat.com/mountains/vocab-mountain