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Q: Resources for advanced spoken English

I am looking for resources for advanced spoken English, where less common vocabulary and grammar are used. To illustrate, Jordan Peterson uses such words as proclivity or finitude in his talks, which are, in my opinion, less frequent words in English compared to their synonyms. And, he does that ...