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Taught by Professor Kevin Flanigan | 30 min | Categories: Professional & Personal Growth
What's the difference between someone who is irascible, one who is testy, and another who is dyspeptic? What about the difference between stoic and stolid? Professor Flanigan's stories from his childhood and from pop culture vividly illustrate the new words you'll learn here.
36 Lectures
1
Five Principles for Learning Vocabulary
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of 33 min
2
The Spelling-Meaning Connection
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of 31 min
3
Words for Lying, Swindling, and Conniving
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of 30 min
4
Words That Express Annoyance and Disgust
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of 32 min
5
Fighting Words and Peaceful Words
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of 31 min
6
Going beyond Dictionary Meanings
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of 32 min
7
Wicked Words
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of 32 min
8
Words for Beginnings and Endings
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of 32 min
9
Words Expressing Fear, Love, and Hatred
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of 32 min
10
Words for the Everyday and the Elite
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of 30 min
11
Words from Gods and Heroes
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of 32 min
12
Humble Words and Prideful Words
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of 34 min
13
High-Frequency Greek and Latin Roots
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of 32 min
14
Words Relating to Belief and Trust
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of 33 min
15
Words for the Way We Talk
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of 34 min
16
Words for Praise, Criticism, and Nonsense
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of 32 min
17
Eponyms from Literature and History
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of 32 min
18
Thinking, Teaching, and Learning Words
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of 31 min
19
Words for the Diligent and the Lazy
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of 32 min
20
Words That Break and Words That Join
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of 30 min
21
Some High-Utility Greek and Latin Affixes
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of 29 min
22
Cranky Words and Cool Words
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of 30 min
23
Words for Courage and Cowardice
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of 32 min
24
Reviewing Vocabulary through Literature
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of 33 min
25
Words for Killing and Cutting
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of 31 min
26
A Vocabulary Grab Bag
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of 31 min
27
Words for Words
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of 30 min
28
Specialty Words for Language
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of 30 min
29
Nasty Words and Nice Words
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of 30 min
30
Words for the Really Big and the Very Small
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of 32 min
31
Spelling as a Vocabulary Tool
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of 32 min
32
A Medley of New Words
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of 30 min
33
Building Vocabulary through Games
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of 30 min
34
Words English Borrowed and Never Returned
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of 30 min
35
More Foreign Loan Words
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of 29 min
36
Forgotten Words and Neologisms
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of 35 min
