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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #24: Brobdingnagian
Words are slippery creatures. They can get away from you when you least expect it. That’s why Aaron Poole recommends you keep a few in reserve for that time of emergency. Don’t just stand there with...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #25: Indolent
Some people get depressed in the face of words. There are too many, they complain. Too many to have to contend with and remember. Aaron Poole understands your dilemma. Which is why he picks only the...
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Word-a-Week Season 2 is Happening
So here’s some excellent news. The criminally underviewed* series Word-a-Week by the Irish Ambassador to the Internet, Aaron Poole, was completed last year. Aaron brought you vocabulary words in a...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #26: Hirsute
I know, you’ve been using the words from Series 1 of Word-a-Week until they’re raw. Until the people around you have said, “Yes, yes, we get it: you are well-read and a card-carrying member of the...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #27: Jentacular
We’ve all been at a loss for words from time to time. And that’s especially frustrating since there’s a word for just about everything you encounter on a daily basis, no matter how mundane or...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #28: Zaftig
Sometimes the cat has your tongue. Sometimes it’s a bat. Sometimes, even, it’s a very angry hedgehog. But mostly, it’s a cat. Bored with lying around and coughing up hairballs, it has suddenly decided...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #29: Haver
You don’t have to be a serious poet in order to need some language help. You could be just a guy trying to come up with a dirty limerick. Or maybe you are in a bathroom stall etching a filthy haiku...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #30: Lachrymose
Stuck in a monosyllabic rut? Is every sentence that you spout possessing of a lentil-level of excitement? Feel like you need a vocabulary equivalent of some cayenne pepper to sprinkle on your...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #31: Hagridden
Were you wondering when the Thesaurus was going to make an appearance in the Jurassic Park series? Is the only IPA you know one with alcohol content? Do you think the OED is a Dreadstar character*?...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #32: Privation
The beauty of the English language is it has a word for just about anything. In fact, if you think about it, the English language was the original app. But imagine, if you will, an app with a complete...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #33: Canard
Don’t be fooled by the fact that there aren’t a lot of synonyms for the terminology of “moving house.” And don’t wonder at the notion that a building isn’t been pushed around Ireland by one relatively...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #34: Coquettish
Words. No one can consume just one. They’re like Lay’s Potato Chips. But sooner or later, we stick our hands into the potato chip bag of our minds and find nothing but crumbs. Verbal detritus. What...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #35: Scrouge
Words. There’s a lot of them. So many that it’s easy to get so flustered you can’t tell your homonym from your homo superior. But if you find yourself lost and in need of the linguistic equivalent of...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #36: Guttle
Mortgages. Medical bills. The upcoming zombie apocalypse. You have so much in your life to worry about. Who has time to seek out the frontiers of the English language? Well, just like in the good old...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #37: Defenestrate
Are you dragged down by workaday concerns and worries? Maybe you need to scale back and get some easy wins. Like having a “100 Words to Work Gracefully Into Conversation Before I Die” list, for...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #38: Apodyopsis
The comic book villain Bullseye could take out someone from across the street using just a paper clip. Which is impressive, yes. But without words, how could I have conveyed that notion to you? Mime?...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #39: Facsimile
The Oxford English Dictionary will eventually become so large that it knocks the Earth out of its proper orbit. There’s no need to concern yourself–it can’t be stopped. What you can concern yourself...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #40: Agastopia
There are those who say that the use of profanity is a clear sign of someone who has a lack of language skills. There are those who say that profanity is merely fun and, yes, sometimes therapeutic....
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #41: Tenebrous
Are you in the dark when it comes to language? There’s no shame in that. However, rather than fumble for the proverbial light switch in such a situation, then wind up tripping over the proverbial Lego...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #42: Fuddling
Words are like alcohol. Think of the words you use everyday as your regular, workaday ale or glass of wine. And there’s nothing wrong with that–it’s comforting, in fact. However, every once in a...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #43: Inextricable
Sometimes you can feel in a conversation like you can’t escape. Like you’ve got no way out. Even like you’re tied to a chair. It’s in moments such as these that we need someone to step in and...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #44: Kaput
We’ve all had to try and make the best of a bad situation. And sometimes you have to take whatever kind of edge you can lay hands upon. In some cases, you might just need to be satisfied with the fact...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #45: Abderian
Language is power. Granted, power is also power. But in this case, for the sake of argument, language is power. And if you have a solid mastery of the language, you can harness that power and bend it...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #46: Otiose
Not since Schoolhouse Rock has there been such rocking involving the English language. Such is the might of Aaron Poole. He is the only Wordsmith to have achieved such a level of knowledge that he is...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #47: Opulent
Gene Wilder had a series–briefly–called Something Wilder. One of the most important quotes you will ever hear resulted from this show: “The problem with bad taste is that you can’t explain it to...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #48: Apposite
The reason that wordsmiths like Aaron Poole can freestyle and not come off sounding like a maroon is because they have a good verbal foundation to work from. You have to learn the basics before you...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #49: Penultimate
As Word-a-Week draws to a close, the hope is that the vocabulary receptacles in your mind have been stretched sufficiently to allow you to replenish your hopefully whetted appetite for new words…and...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #50: Agraffe
Word-a-Week is dead. Long live Word-a-Week. Wordmeister Aaron Poole did it his way and he sends this feature off into the sunset in style. Granted, as you will see, he spent an entire month of Need...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog #51: Fard
You thought Word-a-Week was gone for good. But since everything is trying to emulate Marvel these days, resurrection can come pretty easy. Or at least reasonably priced. Wordmonger Aaron Fever is back...
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Word-A-Week Vocabulary Vlog Catch-Up #52 – #54
Well, Widge here. I manipulate Aaron’s Patreon to get a third season of Word-A-Week and things fall on me again. I suck. Did you hear the one about the three-foot king snake that came into my office?...
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