Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Episodes

• Introduction

  Episode 0 · 12:20
• How To Use This Book

  Episode 1 · 4:52
• Plan Of Study

  Episode 2 · 4:52
• Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture

  Episode 3 · 5:13
• Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky

  Episode 4 · 4:10
• Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period

  Episode 5 · 3:57
• Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties

  Episode 6 · 2:47
• Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons

  Episode 7 · 2:43
• Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard

  Episode 8 · 4:07
• Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated

  Episode 9 · 6:27
• Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence

  Episode 10 · 5:51
• Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness

  Episode 11 · 5:50
• Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition

  Episode 12 · 4:54
• Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience

  Episode 13 · 2:53
• Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble

  Episode 14 · 3:16
• Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility

  Episode 15 · 4:31
• Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation

  Episode 16 · 4:53
• Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy

  Episode 17 · 7:05
• Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack

  Episode 18 · 5:45
• Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor

  Episode 19 · 5:46
• Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations

  Episode 20 · 5:30
• Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors

  Episode 21 · 4:25
• Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom

  Episode 22 · 3:51
• Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge

  Episode 23 · 6:19
• Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent

  Episode 24 · 7:26
• Useful Phrases: polluting taints - pyrotechnic outburst

  Episode 25 · 8:56
• Useful Phrases: quailing culprit - remarkable sagacity

  Episode 26 · 3:20
• Useful Phrases: remedial measure - ruthless commercialism

  Episode 27 · 2:33
• Useful Phrases: sacerdotal preeminence - shuddering reluctance

  Episode 28 · 4:49
• Useful Phrases: shuffling preliminaries - starched sterility

  Episode 29 · 5:02
• Useful Phrases: starlit eminence - systematic interaction

  Episode 30 · 3:54
• Useful Phrases: tacit assumption - tyrannical disposition

  Episode 31 · 5:07
• Useful Phrases: ubiquitous activity - undue predilection

  Episode 32 · 4:04
• Useful Phrases: undulating hills - unpalatable truth

  Episode 33 · 4:07
• Useful Phrases: unparalleled atrocities - utmost scorn

  Episode 34 · 4:13
• Useful Phrases: vacant stupidity - vulnerable foe

  Episode 35 · 3:07
• Useful Phrases: wabbling enterprise - zoologically considered

  Episode 36 · 3:11
• Significant Phrases: abashed and ashamed - awkwardness and crudity

  Episode 37 · 4:15
• Significant Phrases: babel and confusion - civilized and cultured

  Episode 38 · 4:52
• Significant Phrases: clamorous and wild - cynical and contemptuous

  Episode 39 · 5:06
• Significant Phrases: dangers and pitfalls - digressive and wanton

  Episode 40 · 3:39
• Significant Phrases: dilatory and hesitating - dwindle and disappear

  Episode 41 · 4:44
• Significant Phrases: eagerness and ecstasy - exuberant and infectious

  Episode 42 · 6:16
• Significant Phrases: fabulous and fabricated - futile and untrustworthy

  Episode 43 · 4:47
• Significant Phrases: gaiety and grace - hypocrisy and impudence

  Episode 44 · 5:17
• Significant Phrases: ideas and achievements - indomitable and dogged

  Episode 45 · 3:24
• Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached

  Episode 46 · 3:37
• Significant Phrases: jabber and chatter - luxury and pomp

  Episode 47 · 4:07
• Significant Phrases: madness and folly - mystic and wonderful

  Episode 48 · 2:55
• Significant Phrases: nagging and squabbling - overworked and fagged

  Episode 49 · 4:10
• Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected

  Episode 50 · 6:09
• Significant Phrases: quackery and incompetence - rust and disuse

  Episode 51 · 4:58
• Significant Phrases: sad and melancholy - spacious and lofty

  Episode 52 · 3:48
• Significant Phrases: sparkling and spontaneous - sympathetic and consoling

  Episode 53 · 4:06
• Significant Phrases: taciturn and laconic - tyrant and oppressor

  Episode 54 · 4:48
• Significant Phrases: unaccountable and grotesque - vulgar and artificial

  Episode 55 · 5:49
• Significant Phrases: wandering and erratic - zigzag and deviating

  Episode 56 · 2:17
• Felicitous Phrases: ability, humor, and perspicacity - busy, active, and toiling

  Episode 57 · 4:11
• Felicitous Phrases: curious, fantastic, and charming - calculated, logical, and dispassionate

  Episode 58 · 4:11
• Felicitous Phrases: dwarfed, scant, and wretched - danger, difficulty, and hardship

  Episode 59 · 4:32
• Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, and irrelevancy

  Episode 60 · 4:35
• Felicitous Phrases: gaunt, desolate, and despoiled - humor, fancy, and susceptibility

  Episode 61 · 3:40
• Felicitous Phrases: idle, profuse, and profligate - luxurious, whimsical, and selfish

  Episode 62 · 4:20
• Felicitous Phrases: magnificent, sumptuous, and stately - overriding, arrogant, and quarrelsome

  Episode 63 · 3:51
• Felicitous Phrases: pain, toil, and privation - puzzles, tangles, and questionings

  Episode 64 · 3:45
• Felicitous Phrases: quarrels, misunderstandings, and enmities - rush, roar, and shriek

  Episode 65 · 2:38
• Felicitous Phrases: sacredness, dignity, and loveliness - sympathy, service, and compassion

  Episode 66 · 4:05
• Felicitous Phrases: talent, scholarship, and refinement - wrinkled, careworn, and pale

  Episode 67 · 5:08
• Impressive Phrases: able, skilful,... - business, profession,...

  Episode 68 · 4:41
• Impressive Phrases: candid, sincere,... - dull, heavy,...

  Episode 69 · 6:04
• Impressive Phrases: earth, air,... - gross, academic,..

  Episode 70 · 6:18
• Impressive Phrases: habit, custom,... - lucidity, impressiveness,...

  Episode 71 · 5:41
• Impressive Phrases: malice, anger,... - purpose, meaning,...

  Episode 72 · 5:40
• Impressive Phrases: quack, imposture,... - symmetry, proportion,..

  Episode 73 · 4:20
• Impressive Phrases: tact, courtesy,... - worry, annoyance,...

  Episode 74 · 4:10
• Prepositional Phrases "of": abandon of spontaneity - business of life

  Episode 75 · 4:35
• Prepositional Phrases "of": cadences of delirium - dust of defeat

  Episode 76 · 3:52
• Prepositional Phrases "of": earnestness of enthusiasm - futility of pride

  Episode 77 · 4:12
• Prepositional Phrases "of": gaiety of spirit - irony of life

  Episode 78 · 4:01
• Prepositional Phrases "of": jangle of sounds - overflow of vitality

  Episode 79 · 4:10
• Prepositional Phrases "of": page of desolation - ruts of conventionality

  Episode 80 · 4:52
• Prepositional Phrases "of": sadness of soul - system of aspersion

  Episode 81 · 3:34
• Prepositional Phrases "of": taint of megalomania - zone of delusion

  Episode 82 · 4:16
• Prepositional Phrases "by": affected by externals - hushed by denial

  Episode 83 · 3:05
• Prepositional Phrases "by": impelled by duty - wrenched by emotions

  Episode 84 · 3:33
• Prepositional Phrases "in": absorbed in meditation - kept in abeyance

  Episode 85 · 3:16
• Prepositional Phrases "in": landmarks in memory - weak in conception

  Episode 86 · 3:47
• Prepositional Phrases "into": abashed into silence - goaded into action

  Episode 87 · 1:59
• Prepositional Phrases "into": hushed into silence - withdraw into solitude

  Episode 88 · 1:51
• Prepositional Phrases "to": addicted to flattery - hostile to progress

  Episode 89 · 1:50
• Prepositional Phrases "to": impervious to suggestion - yield to reason

  Episode 90 · 2:28
• Prepositional Phrases "with": abounding with plenty - intoxicated with joy

  Episode 91 · 2:23
• Prepositional Phrases "with": kindle with enthusiasm - work with zeal

  Episode 92 · 2:29
• Business Phrases

  Episode 93 · 24:37
• Literary Expressions: A bitterness crept into her face - A nimble-witted opponent

  Episode 94 · 6:53
• Literary Expressions: A painful thought was flooding his mind - A wordless farewell

  Episode 95 · 6:27
• Literary Expressions: Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting - Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence

  Episode 96 · 8:18
• Literary Expressions: Bandied about from mouth to mouth - Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows

  Episode 97 · 6:47
• Literary Expressions: Earth danced under a heat haze - Guilty of girlish sentimentality

  Episode 98 · 4:06
• Literary Expressions: Half choked by a rising paroxysm of rage - Humiliating paltriness of revenge

  Episode 99 · 9:26
• Literary Expressions: I capitulated by inadvertence - Kiss-provoking lips

  Episode 100 · 5:06
• Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle - Rudely reminded of life's serious issues

  Episode 101 · 10:45
• Literary Expressions: Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill - Swift summer into the autumn flowed

  Episode 102 · 7:27
• Literary Expressions: Taking the larger sweeps in the march of mind - The hungry curiosity of the mind

  Episode 103 · 8:09
• Literary Expressions: The idiosyncratic peculiarities of thought - The swing of the pendulum through an arch of centuries

  Episode 104 · 9:37
• Literary Expressions: The tempered daylight of an olive garden - Twilight creeps upon the darkening mind

  Episode 105 · 5:34
• Literary Expressions: Unapproachable grandeur and simplicity - Your mind enthroned in the seventh circle of content

  Episode 106 · 3:39
• Striking Similes: A blind rage like a fire swept over him - And the smile she softly uses fills the silence like a speech

  Episode 107 · 10:55
• Striking Similes: As a child in play scatters... - Awkward as a cart-horse

  Episode 108 · 6:39
• Striking Similes: Babbling like a child - Dull as champagne

  Episode 109 · 6:33
• Striking Similes: Each like a corpse within its grave - Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts ...

  Episode 110 · 4:36
• Striking Similes: Hair as harsh as tropical grass and gray as ashes - Hushed like a breathless lyre

  Episode 111 · 9:19
• Striking Similes: I had grown pure as the dawn and the dew - Kingdoms melt away like snow

  Episode 112 · 3:36
• Striking Similes: Laboring like a giant - Like a yellow silken scarf the thick fog hangs

  Episode 113 · 7:03
• Striking Similes: Like an alien ghost I stole away - Like sweet thoughts in a dream

  Episode 114 · 6:31
• Striking Similes: Like the awful shadow of some unseen power - Lovely the land unknown...

  Episode 115 · 6:32
• Striking Similes: March on my soul nor like the laggard stay - Quivering like an eager race-horse to start

  Episode 116 · 6:49
• Striking Similes: Rage, rage ye tears, that never more should creep... - Swifter than the twinkling of an eye

  Episode 117 · 10:25
• Striking Similes: Talking and thinking became to him... - The music almost died away...

  Episode 118 · 6:35
• Striking Similes: The name that cuts into my soul like a knife - Then the lover sighing like furnace

  Episode 119 · 8:27
• Striking Similes: Theories sprouted in his mind like mushrooms - Turning easily and securely as on a perfect axle

  Episode 120 · 6:21
• Striking Similes: Unbends like a loosened bow - Youth like a summer morn

  Episode 121 · 8:18
• Conversational Phrases: A most extraordinary idea! - Human nature interests me very much indeed

  Episode 122 · 6:38
• Conversational Phrases: I admire your foresight - I could never forgive myself for that

  Episode 123 · 7:28
• Conversational Phrases: I dare say your intuition is quite right - I seem to have heard that sentiment before

  Episode 124 · 9:02
• Conversational Phrases: I shall at once proceed to forget it - It has never occurred to me

  Episode 125 · 6:45
• Conversational Phrases: It is a curious fact - It would take too long to formulate my thought

  Episode 126 · 6:17
• Conversational Phrases: Join us, please, when you have time - Surely you would not countenance that

  Episode 127 · 7:00
• Conversational Phrases: Tell me in what way you want me to help you - True, I forgot!

  Episode 128 · 6:38
• Conversational Phrases: Undeniably true - Would you mind telling me your opinion?

  Episode 129 · 3:47
• Conversational Phrases: Yes and no - Your statement is somewhat startling

  Episode 130 · 4:49
• Public Speaking Phrases: A fact of vast moment - And next I would ask

  Episode 131 · 7:29
• Public Speaking Phrases: And now allow me to call attention - Away then with the notion

  Episode 132 · 8:01
• Public Speaking Phrases: Be assured, then - But it has been suggested to me

  Episode 133 · 4:55
• Public Speaking Phrases: But it is a fact - By this time it will be suspected

  Episode 134 · 4:20
• Public Speaking Phrases: Can it be supposed - Granting all this

  Episode 135 · 4:12
• Public Speaking Phrases: Had I time for all that might be said - However, it is to me a very refreshing thing

  Episode 136 · 3:16
• Public Speaking Phrases: I abide by my statement - I am willing to know

  Episode 137 · 6:16
• Public Speaking Phrases: I anticipate with pleasing expectation - I distrust all general theories of

  Episode 138 · 7:39
• Public Speaking Phrases: I do again and again urge upon you - I hasten to concede

  Episode 139 · 8:10
• Public Speaking Phrases: I have a dark suspicion - I hope you will not accuse me

  Episode 140 · 11:49
• Public Speaking Phrases: I imagine that no one will be disposed - I rejoice to think I remark here

  Episode 141 · 9:23
• Public Speaking Phrases: I remember a reference made - I thank you very sincerely for the honor

  Episode 142 · 9:41
• Public Speaking Phrases: I think I am correct in saying - I yielded to the earnest solicitations

  Episode 143 · 10:38
• Public Speaking Phrases: If any man be so persuaded - In widening our view

  Episode 144 · 10:38
• Public Speaking Phrases: Indeed, can anyone tell me - It is my present purpose

  Episode 145 · 9:25
• Public Speaking Phrases: It is natural to ask the question - It may still more probably be said

  Episode 146 · 5:38
• Public Speaking Phrases: It must be a cause of delight - Just the reverse is true

  Episode 147 · 5:21
• Public Speaking Phrases: Language is inadequate to voice my appreciation - My regret is intensified by the thought

  Episode 148 · 8:23
• Public Speaking Phrases: Nay, I boldly say - Now, you will understand from this

  Episode 149 · 5:43
• Public Speaking Phrases: Observe again - Surely it is not too much for me to say

  Episode 150 · 7:43
• Public Speaking Phrases: Take another instance - The whole story of civilization

  Episode 151 · 6:48
• Public Speaking Phrases: Then again, in corroboration - Think of the cool disregard

  Episode 152 · 5:49
• Public Speaking Phrases: This absurdity arises - Very strange is this indeed

  Episode 153 · 5:15
• Public Speaking Phrases: We all agree as to - What strikes the mind so forcibly

  Episode 154 · 9:02
• Public Speaking Phrases: What, then, are we to believe - Your presence seems to say

  Episode 155 · 6:57
• Miscellaneous Phrases: A bewildering labyrinth of facts - A pleasant flow of appropriate language

  Episode 156 · 7:01
• Miscellaneous Phrases: A pompous failure - Ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing gifts

  Episode 157 · 7:21
• Miscellaneous Phrases: An abandoned and exaggerated grief - Awaited with feverish anxiety

  Episode 158 · 6:03
• Miscellaneous Phrases: Bandied to and fro - Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions

  Episode 159 · 6:58
• Miscellaneous Phrases: Easy-going to the point of lethargy - Hopelessly belated in its appearance

  Episode 160 · 9:30
• Miscellaneous Phrases: I adjured him - Its dominating and inspiring influence

  Episode 161 · 11:13
• Miscellaneous Phrases: Jealous and formidable foes - Quixotically generous about money

  Episode 162 · 10:34
• Miscellaneous Phrases: Radiantly and transparently happy - Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling

  Episode 163 · 8:02
• Miscellaneous Phrases: Take root in the heart - The sycophants of the rich

  Episode 164 · 12:00