One person's ghost story can seem unreal... But when two people see the same thing, we have little choice but to believe both of them.
In this bonus Halloween episode, listen to a true story about two friends and a ghostly white dog from another world.

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This week is a special and scary week- it's Halloween! Tim loves Halloween, so this week he brings you a real-life ghost story told by a close friend. This episode has a lot of advanced vocabulary, much of it connected with ghosts. To get the maximum effect from this episode, learn the advanced vocabulary from the list below- and then listen with the lights turned off!
1 recollect = remember
2 spooky = scary (usually because of ghosts)

3, 4 tumultuous, fraught (/frawt/) = chaotic, complicated (relationships)

5 peninsula = piece of land with water on three sides (e.g., Florida or Korea)

6 desolate = empty and depressing (land, places)

7, 8 marsh, swamp = land with lots of water on it

9 windswept = affected by heavy wind (land, territory- a windswept beach)

10 flanked by = if a road is flanked by trees, there are trees on both sides of the road

11 performer = actor or singer

12 creep someone out = to make someone afraid

13 orchard = land where fruit trees grow, e.g. apple orchard, cherry orchard

14 burial grounds = cemetery, graveyard (for Native Americans)

15 suffice it to say = it's enough to say

16 fraught = complicated, difficult (relationships)

17 tangle = chaotic mix of different objects

18 garb = clothing

19 eyepatch = piece of cloth worn to protect an eye- pirates wear eye patches

20 dilapidated = in bad condition, not taken care of (buildings)

21 hazy = difficult to see through (for example, some beers are hazy)

22 cobwebs = spiderwebs

23 barn = building on a farm where animals live or food is kept

24 bee = a black and yellow flying insect

25 hive of bees = structure built by bees that they live in; hives contain honey

26 general store = old-fashioned store that sells food, tools and clothing- common in the US until the 1950s- General store - Wikipedia

27 skittering = moving quickly and noisily across a hard surface

28 crescendo = climax, most dramatic moment

29 vaporize = to disappear

30 apparition = a ghost

31 taxing = requiring a large effort
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What if you could speak with greater sophistication and detail WITHOUT learning new words? Well, that really is possible! How? You just need to learn more meanings of words you already know.

This technique is even more impactful when you choose words from the NGSL, a list of the 2809 most used words of English. Knowing NGSL vocabulary well can also help you score higher on IELTS and TOEFL.
Listen to Episode 134 today to learn 5 NGSL words and 9 meanings.

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