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You’re probably familiar with the legends of werewolves and madmen emerging from the dark on a full moon…but did you know that this...

Love, jealousy, betrayal, friends turning each other into animals…all hiding in one tiny SAT word! In episode 43 of the Vocabbett...

After around 20 new episodes, season 2 of the Vocabbett podcast is coming to a close! In episode 76, I dive into how I might be growing...

If you’ve seen The Durrells in Corfu, you’ll undoubtedly remember the slightly dotty daughter in the series, Margo. When I finished the...

We’ve all heard of Cleopatra, but how many people know she had a little sister — and a pretty remarkable one at that? Arsinoe IV was...

When most of us think of suffragettes (a.k.a. women who fought for the right to vote), we think of Susan B. Anthony or Emmeline...

“18th-century heiress-turned-pirate” may sound like the tagline of a cheesy romance novel, but remarkably, it’s a fairly accurate...

I don’t remember the first time I heard the word “kudos,” but I distinctly remember thinking that it was 1970’s slang. How wrong I was! I...

Amid the recent inauguration news, I kept hearing the word “rostrum.” “As he approaches the rostrum tomorrow…”“Donald Trump began his...