Bolster, Explicate and Amplify Your Vocabulary

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 19, 2014

Ben Zimmer, linguist, lexicographer, and language columnist for The Wall Street Journal, quizzes us on what words mean and explains the often misunderstood history of common words in our lexicon. He’ll also answer listener questions. Zimmer is the executive producer of Vocabulary.com and the Visual Thesaurus.

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