English Plus Episode 644 Vocabulary Building In Search of a Common Language

Which words could best replace 'legions' in "For centuries, legions of clever linguists have attempted to create a world language"?

Which word could best replace 'foster' in "With this universal language, they hoped to foster goodwill as well as serve the causes of international commerce and learning"?

Which word could best replace 'profoundly' in "As a result, Russians, Poles, Germans, Estonians, and Latvians profoundly mistrusted and misunderstood each other"?

A 'nascent' language in "His initial goals for the nascent language were for it to be so simple and logical that anyone could learn it…" can be best described as ______.

The word 'tenets' in "The central tenets of Esperanto are its elegant simplicity and its relentless logic" can be best explained as ______.

Which word could best replace 'relentless' in "The central tenets of Esperanto are its elegant simplicity and its relentless logic"?

'Syntax' in "Furthermore, grammar and syntax have been reduced to sixteen rules that have no exceptions" can best best explained as a ______.

Which word or words could best replace 'novice' in "Experts claim that even a novice can learn Esperanto in one hundred hours or less."?

Which word could best replace 'prosaic' in "Furthermore, in keeping with his prosaic approach to language, Zamenhof searched dictionaries of the Western world, choosing from each the most common roots on which to graft his new language"?

Which word or words could best replace 'facilitate' in "Countries like Japan and China use it to facilitate discussions between speakers of different dialects"?