Building a Better Vocabulary Season 1 Episode 30 Words for the Really Big and the Very Small

  • TV-PG
  • January 30, 2015
  • 32 min

Is ginormous a real word? What's the difference between capacious and commodious? What are the two words Gulliver's Travels gave to English for big and small? Get answers to these questions and more in this lecture, where you'll also build words using the Latin roots magn and min.

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  • First Aired
    January 30, 2015
  • Content Rating
    TV-PG
  • Runtime
    32 min
  • Language
    English
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