Vince's Vocab Podcast

Episodes

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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #31 28.10.2026 46m

  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.Continue with Vince’s Vocab Podcast:https://www.gregmat.com/course/vinces-vocab-podcastPractice with Vocab Mountain:https://www.gregmat.com/mountains/vocab-mountain
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #30 26.10.2026 53m

  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.Continue with Vince’s Vocab Podcast:https://www.gregmat.com/course/vinces-vocab-podcastPractice with Vocab Mountain:https://www.gregmat.com/mountains/vocab-mountain
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #29 21.10.2026 54m

  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 ForumAlong 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.Continue with Vince’s Vocab Podcast:https://www.gregmat.com/course/vinces-vocab-podcastPractice with Vocab Mountain:https://www.gregmat.com/mountains/vocab-mountain
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #28 19.10.2026 53m

  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.Continue with Vince’s Vocab Podcast:https://www.gregmat.com/course/vinces-vocab-podcastPractice with Vocab Mountain:https://www.gregmat.com/mountains/vocab-mountain
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #27 16.10.2026 50m

  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.Continue with Vince’s Vocab Podcast:https://www.gregmat.com/course/vinces-vocab-podcastPractice with Vocab Mountain:https://www.gregmat.com/mountains/vocab-mountain
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #26 15.10.2026 57m

  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.Continue with Vince’s Vocab Podcast:https://www.gregmat.com/course/vinces-vocab-podcastPractice with Vocab Mountain:https://www.gregmat.com/mountains/vocab-mountain
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #25 13.10.2026 55m

  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.Continue with Vince’s Vocab Podcast:https://www.gregmat.com/course/vinces-vocab-podcastPractice with Vocab Mountain:https://www.gregmat.com/mountains/vocab-mountain
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #24 12.10.2026 46m

  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.Continue with Vince’s Vocab Podcast:https://www.gregmat.com/course/vinces-vocab-podcastPractice with Vocab Mountain:https://www.gregmat.com/mountains/vocab-mountain
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #23 09.10.2026 51m

  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-podcastPractice with Vocab Mountain:https://www.gregmat.com/mountains/vocab-mountain
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #22 08.10.2026 56m

  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-podcastPractice with Vocab Mountain:https://www.gregmat.com/mountains/vocab-mountain
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #21 07.10.2026 49m

  Vince works through the next set of words from the GregMat Vocab Mountain, using simple definitions, examples, word origins, and mnemonics to make the words easier to remember.This group includes words like abject, amicable, animosity, barrage, cathartic, decipher, delusion, eloquent, fortitude, imminent, magnanimous, resilient, resolute, valor, and more.Keep the vocab list nearby while you listen and see which words you can define before Vince gets to them. The ones that still feel fuzzy are the ones worth coming back to.Continue with Vince’s Vocab Podcast:https://www.gregmat.com/course/vinces-vocab-podcastPractice with Vocab Mountain:https://www.gregmat.com/mountains/vocab-mountain
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #20 06.10.2026 57m

  Vince works through the next set of words from the GregMat Vocab Mountain, using definitions, examples, word origins, and whatever mnemonic actually helps the word stick.This group includes words like abreast, confound, digression, discrepancy, duplicitous, expedient, fabricate, glum, harbinger, intrinsic, largesse, libertine, malfeasance, and more.There are Harry Potter references, a little Lord of the Rings, some questionable mnemonics, and plenty of examples along the way. The goal is simple: understand the words well enough that they start feeling like normal English instead of a list you’re trying to memorize.If you’re working through Group 20, keep the vocab list nearby and see how many words you can define before Vince gets to them.Continue with Vince’s Vocab Podcast:https://www.gregmat.com/course/vinces-vocab-podcastPractice with Vocab Mountain:https://www.gregmat.com/mountains/vocab-mountain
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #19 05.10.2026 57m

  Vince works through the next set of words from the GregMat Vocab Mountain, looking at what they mean, where they come from, and different ways to actually remember them.Along the way, he covers words like acolyte, anoint, base, coercion, coin, cunning, dissent, distill, dubious, ebullient, facetious, fallible, florid, gawky, and more.There are mnemonics, word origins, examples, and a few side stories along the way - basically the usual Vince approach to making vocabulary a little easier to remember.If you’re working through Group 19 yourself, keep the vocab list nearby and see which words you can recall before Vince explains them.Continue with Vince’s Vocab Podcast:https://www.gregmat.com/course/vinces-vocab-podcastPractice with Vocab Mountain:https://www.gregmat.com/mountains/vocab-mountain
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #18 02.10.2026 58m

  In this episode, Vince works through the next set of GregMat vocab words, breaking down what they mean, how they’re used, and different ways to remember them.You’ll hear words like abet, accessible, acquisitive, amalgamate, attenuate, augment, aversion, blithe, contempt, dawdle, deflect, discount, dissident, efficacious, and equitable , along with examples, word origins, and a few mnemonics to help the words stick.If you’re working through the GregMat vocab list, listen along, pause when you need to, and spend a little extra time on the words that still feel new.Watch the full Vince’s Vocab Podcast series on GregMat:https://www.gregmat.com/course/vinces-vocab-podcastPractice with Vocab Mountain:https://www.gregmat.com/mountains/vocab-mountain
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #17 01.10.2026 55m

  Vince works through the 30 words in Group 17 of the GregMat vocab list, talking through what they mean, how they’re used, and the little connections that can help them stick.If you’re working through Vocab Mountain, try listening after you’ve looked at the words yourself. Pause when you need to, see what you can remember, and come back to the words that still feel fuzzy.Watch the full Vince’s Vocab Podcast series on GregMat:https://www.gregmat.com/course/vinces-vocab-podcastPractice with Vocab Mountain:https://www.gregmat.com/mountains/vocab-mountain
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #16 01.10.2024 53m

  Ah, Vince's Vocab Podcast, Episode 16. Quite the adventure, isn’t it? If you’re serious about expanding your vocabulary—without sounding dreadfully tedious—then do join us, won’t you? We’ll explore words with wit and grace, elevating your verbal prowess for the GRE. It’s all rather delightful, really. Simply not to be missed.-Dame Maggie Smith (RIP)
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #15 26.09.2024 55m

  Okay, so here’s the deal: in Vince’s Vocab Podcast Episode #15, we’re gonna slap you in the face with some big words. Yeah, you heard me! You wanna crush the GRE? You gotta know more words than your grandma at Scrabble! So sit down, shut up, and learn, okay?-Ali Wong
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #14 19.09.2024 58m

  Sometimes we need to hear an expert -- in this case Vince -- ramble on for an hour for vocab words to truly "stick" in our brains. So that's what Vince is going to do in this class. You can either listen or watch. He's going to be covering the words from the GregMat vocab list in Group 14. Vince handles vocab as if he were a master conductor of a renowned symphony, so I recommend you not miss it.
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #13 12.09.2024 53m

  Sometimes we need to hear an expert -- in this case Vince -- ramble on for an hour for vocab words to truly "stick" in our brains. So that's what Vince is going to do in this class. You can either listen or watch. He's going to be covering the words from the GregMat vocab list in Group 13. Vince handles vocab as if he were a master conductor of a renowned symphony, so I recommend you not miss it.
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  Vince's Vocab Podcast - Episode #12 05.09.2024 54m

  Sometimes we need to hear an expert -- in this case Vince -- ramble on for an hour for vocab words to truly "stick" in our brains. So that's what Vince is going to do in this class. You can either listen or watch. He's going to be covering the words from the GregMat vocab list in Group 12. Vince handles vocab as if he were a master conductor of a renowned symphony, so I recommend you not miss it.