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to english with lucy today i am going to
teach you
15 beautiful english words
that i think you should use more often i
think we should all
use them more often i've selected these
words because i find
that they roll off the tongue well at
least some of them do
and others just have really beautiful
meanings
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the lesson the first beautiful english
word that i think you should use
more frequently is number one
appealing appealing i
love the long e sound this
means attractive or interesting
an example his rich vocabulary
made him sound so appealing this is a
word that my mother
uses quite a lot if she sees something
delicious
or smells some nice food she'll always
say oh
that looks so appealing it appeals to me
it's appealing number two is
ineffable ineffable
this means too great or beautiful
to describe in words something so
wonderful
that you can't express how wonderful it
is
it's ineffable an example when i heard
of their pregnancy
i was filled with ineffable joy
number three is nefarious
nefarious i know a lot of learners of
english
struggle with the air sound
now we are always taught to pronounce it
as
e er together air
however lots of my students find it
easier
to think of it as an extension of an e
sound air air nefarious
it might not be what you find in a
pronunciation book
but if it helps you then that's fine by
me
now this might be a beautiful word in my
opinion nefarious
but it doesn't have a very beautiful
meaning it means
criminal or extremely bad
i like this word because i find it very
expressive
an example they hacked into my bank
account
and used the funds for nefarious
purposes
criminal extremely bad extremely bad
number four is ethereal
ethereal this means extremely
light and beautiful seeming to belong to
another
more spiritual world
i think the word sounds beautiful but i
think the meaning
is amazing an example at sunrise
the london skyline almost looks
ethereal number five
if you know me well then you might
understand why
i love this word so much it is
epiphany epiphany
can you guess why i like it it means a
sudden and surprising
moment of realization i chose to name my
pronunciation course
after this word epiphany language
studios
this is because i want my students to
have
an epiphany a moment of realization
and understanding when it comes to their
language skills
and their pronunciation an example
when she took the course she had an
epiphany
and everything became clear number
six short but sweet angst
angst it's a feeling of great worry
or concern about your situation
or your life you often hear teenage
angst i wrote emotional poetry
when i was full of teenage angst
number seven is euphoria
euphoria this means an extremely
strong feeling of excitement or
happiness
that usually only lasts a short while an
example
after receiving the letter of acceptance
i was in a state of
euphoria number eight
is cherish cherish
this is a verb meaning to love someone
or something
very much and wanting to protect them or
it
an example i will always cherish the
letter he wrote to me
before he moved away number nine
is eternity eternity
this simply means time without end
for example a mother's love lasts for
eternity
number 10 is quintessence
quintessence you may have heard its
adjective form before quintessential
which is also very beautiful but i think
this one is used
less frequently and i simply believe it
should be used
more frequently it's a very good word
quintessence
it means the perfect example of
something
an example it was the quintessence of an
english country cottage if you see a
perfect
country cottage with beautiful light
stone and roses up it you can say that
is the quintessence
of an english country cottage english
country cottage that's a hard thing to
say
try repeating that three times number 11
is plethora plethora
this one does roll off the tongue
plethora
it means an amount that is greater than
is needed
or can be used for example the article
contained
a plethora of information we're implying
that there's
slightly too much information
maybe in a good way just so much
information
more than i could ever take in a
plethora of information
that might be one of my all-time
favorites actually
or this next one number 12
pristine pristine oh i love this word
it's so expressive it means
fresh and clean as if new her house was
pristine
it's another that my mother uses a lot
her house is always
pristine and that is true of my mother
you could eat of her flaws number 13
is surreptitiously surreptitiously
it means in a quick or secret way
so that people don't notice an example
she
surreptitiously slid the check under his
napkin
napkin is another word for serviette
number 14 is dulcet
dulcet this means sounding sweet or
pleasant and it's often paired with
tones if you're talking about somebody's
dulcet tones it means their sweet
voice an example i can always recognize
her dulcet tones i can always recognize
her lovely voice and number 15
the last one is docile
docile this means quiet and
easy to control we often use it to talk
about
animals that are very sweet natured an
example
the puppy is calm and incredibly docile
said no puppy owner ever
my puppy was docile for the first week
and then
it was chaos for nearly a year and now
he's completely docile again
not completely right that's it for
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