Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases, credited to Grenville Kleiser, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Grenville Kleiser's Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases read by a variety of LibriVox members. A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embellishment of Speech and Literature, and The Improvement of the Vocabulary of Those Persons Who Read, Write, and Speak English. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases
• Author credits: Grenville Kleiser
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 165
• Listed recording duration: 15:45:46

Catalogue topics

• language

Opening tracks: first 24 of 165

1. 000 - Introduction — 12:20
2. 001 - How To Use This Book — 4:52
3. 002 - Plan of Study — 4:52
4. 003 - Useful Phrases: abandoned hope - ample culture — 5:13
5. 004 - Useful Phrases: amusing artlessness - azure sky — 4:11
6. 005 - Useful Phrases: babbling gossip - bygone period — 3:57
7. 006 - Useful Phrases: cabalistic phrase - collateral duties — 2:48
8. 007 - Useful Phrases: collective wisdom - contingent reasons — 2:44
9. 008 - Useful Phrases: continuous endeavor - cynical disregard — 4:08
10. 009 - Useful Phrases: damaging admission - diligently propagated — 6:28
11. 010 - Useful Phrases: dim comprehension - dynastic insolence — 5:51
12. 011 - Useful Phrases: eager animosity - entrancing sadness — 5:50
13. 012 - Useful Phrases: enveloping presence - exultant condition — 4:55
14. 013 - Useful Phrases: facetious mood - flickering conscience — 2:53
15. 014 - Useful Phrases: flighty obstinacy - futile babble — 3:16
16. 015 - Useful Phrases: gabbling reminiscences - gymnastic agility — 4:32
17. 016 - Useful Phrases: habitual deference - hysterical agitation — 4:54
18. 017 - Useful Phrases: iconoclastic attitude - incipient fancy — 7:06
19. 018 - Useful Phrases: incisive critic - inquisitional rack — 5:46
20. 019 - Useful Phrases: inquisitive observer - isolated splendor — 5:46
21. 020 - Useful Phrases: jaded sensibility - lying equivocations — 5:31
22. 021 - Useful Phrases: maddening monotony - meteoric splendors — 4:26
23. 022 - Useful Phrases: methodical regularity - mythical kingdom — 3:52
24. 023 - Useful Phrases: naive manner - overworked drudge — 6:20

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