hi i'm vanessa from speak english with
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today i want to test you on 15 advanced
english vocabulary words that you'll
definitely hear in daily conversation
not words like convivial that you'll
never hear americans actually say
these are words that you're going to
hear in conversation in movies and tv
shows and you are welcome to integrate
them and add them to your own personal
vocabulary
i challenge you to test yourself try to
guess the correct answer to
each sentence and if you don't get the
answer correct
no worries that means that you're ready
to add a new word to your vocabulary
so you can write it down make your own
sentence with it read your sentence out
loud and enjoy yourself because adding
to your vocabulary
can be fun and also it's super useful so
let's start with the first
sentence i'm going to read you a
sentence and there are going to be two
options for you to fill in the blank
i'll give you three seconds and you can
try to guess what the correct answer is
before i explain it
let's get started sentence number one is
i need to practice english because we
have to
with the american branch next week is
the word
collaborate or is the word decide
we have to collaborate with the american
branch
we have to decide with the american
branch
which word is the best fit for the
sentence i'll give you three seconds
three two one
the correct answer is collaborate if you
got this correct congratulations
if not i want to let you know that the
word collaborate means
work together so you often use this in
project situations
i have to collaborate with my classmates
we have to work together on a project
or i have to collaborate with the the
marketing department or the american
branch
we're working on a project together we
have to collaborate this is a beautiful
advanced word of course you can simply
say
work together great no problem but this
video is all about
advanced english expressions that are
commonly used
so you can say i have to collaborate
with the american branch
let's go on to sentence number two the
second sentence is
what do you think is the time to go to
bed
what do you think is the original time
to go to bed
what do you think is the optimum time to
go to bed
i'll give you three seconds two
one what do you think is the
optimum time to go to bed the word
optimum
is just an advanced beautiful way to say
best
what do you think is the best time to go
to bed and here in this picture you can
see
this is not sponsored by this company i
just found this picture online
but this company has decided to use the
word optimum
to describe their product when you take
their product
you will get the best sleep you will get
the optimum
sleep so i hope that you can use this as
an advanced way to say
best let's go to the next one sentence
number three
when he told me about his experience
growing up during the war
i realized how um kids are
i realized how resistant kids are
i realized how resilient kids are both
of these words sound
similar so make sure that you choose the
correct what i'll give you three seconds
three two one
i realized how resilient
kids are this is a beautiful word
there's a lovely
z sound in there resilient resilient
and this means that you're able to
survive even though you have
difficult circumstances you're able to
keep going
and kids are the perfect example of this
even though
a lot of kids grow up in a difficult
situation
they survive they are resilient they can
adapt to those situations all right
let's go on to the next one
sentence number four it made me really
annoyed when my dad
at my idea to interview the president
it made me really annoyed when my dad
scoffed at my idea to interview the
president
or when he scammed at my idea to
interview the president
which one is the best word for this
situation
three two one it made me really annoyed
when my dad
scoffed at my idea to interview the
president
the word scoff is another excellent word
and you can see by my
facial expression that the word scoff
means
you're laughing you're making fun of and
it's often accompanied by
this kind of puff of air if you are
scoffing at someone else you're kind
of laughing or you think their idea is a
little stupid or silly
you're gonna make that same sound you
think you can interview the president
that is scoffing so when you hear
someone scoffing now you
know they are indeed scoffing let's go
to the next one
the fifth sentence is in
i should have bought stock in google
in i should have bought stock in google
is it in retrospect i should have bought
stock in google
or in honesty i should have bought stock
in google
which one feels the most right to you
i'll give you three seconds
three two one in
retrospect i should have bought stock in
google
this word retrospect is actually a word
that we studied in the fearless fluency
club a couple months ago
and the first part of this word is retro
retro means in the past and spect
means looking so we can imagine we're
looking in the past but there is a
slight little nuance about this word
it means we're thinking about the past
but
it means that we realized in the past we
made a bad decision
but in the past i didn't know it was a
bad decision but now i realize
in retrospect i should have bought stock
in google i would be
really rich right now but you know i
didn't do it and probably you didn't
either
so in retrospect we can learn a lot
let's go to the next one
number six i asked her to help me move
next weekend but her answer was
kind of she just said
i don't know maybe we'll see
was her answer inundated was her answer
ambiguous which is the best word for
this situation
three two one her answer was
ambiguous this means that it's not
certain
i don't actually know what her answer is
it's not clear at all
and you can see in this cool image here
that
it is a little bit ambiguous do you see
a rabbit or do you see a duck
it's ambiguous it's not certain it's a
beautiful word let's go to the next one
sentence number seven speaking only one
language
me from getting a promotion speaking
only one language
hinders me from getting a promotion or
speaking only one language
diverts me from getting a promotion
what's the best word for this situation
three two one speaking only one language
hinders me from getting a promotion and
that's why i'm here
with speak english with vanessa to
improve my english and get a promotion i
hope it works for you
here this word hinders means stops or
prevents when you speak only one
language
maybe that is preventing you from
getting a better job or it's preventing
or
hindering you from getting a promotion
this word hinder is a beautiful way to
color your vocabulary
and sound like an advanced english
speaker let's go to the next one
sentence number eight my ancestors came
to the us and tried to
into the general american culture they
tried to
asinine into the culture they had tried
to assimilate
into the culture which word is the best
three
two one my ancestors came to the u.s
and they tried to assimilate
to the general american culture this
means
they tried to fit in they tried to be
similar to the general american culture
this is something that was quite common
especially in the
early 1900s people who came to the us
from italy like my ancestors or poland
or ireland or from other countries as
well
they tried to fit in or lose their
native culture and try to assimilate
into the general american culture which
is why
american culture nowadays is quite
diverse because no one can
actually perfectly assimilate we all
keep little bits of our own culture
inside of us
but this is the best word to describe
this they tried to assimilate
into the general american culture let's
go to the next one
number nine when the teenager hit my car
in the parking lot
i couldn't believe how he was
i couldn't believe how nonchalant he was
i couldn't believe how immune he was
what is the best word for this sentence
three
two one when the teenager hit my car
i couldn't believe how nonchalant
he was this means not caring
cool it doesn't bother him oh i hit your
car it's not a big deal it's oh it's all
right don't worry about it
nonchalant i was quite surprised when
the teenager hit my car and he didn't
care
he was just nonchalant it's all right
let's just go hang out on the beach not
exactly that's not exactly how you
respond in that situation
let's go to the next one sentence number
ten last week i was really busy and
didn't get much sleep but last night i
slept for nine
glorious hours so this morning i feel
this morning i feel rejuvenated this
morning i feel
modified what's the best word in this
situation
i feel three two one
rejuvenated here we're talking about
alive
with energy i feel like before i was
tired and now all of a sudden i have
more energy i feel rejuvenated
so what about for you what makes you
feel rejuvenated
is it when you have a good chat with a
friend or you go for a walk in the woods
or you get a good night's sleep
what makes you feel rejuvenated let's go
to the next one
number 11 when he made a remark about
her weight
he was to the fact that she felt
embarrassed
he was obvious to the fact that she felt
embarrassed
or he was oblivious to the fact that she
felt
embarrassed there is a slight difference
between these two words in their
spelling so make sure that you choose
the word correctly especially if you're
writing it down don't mess up
i'll give you three two one seconds
the correct answer is he was oblivious
to the fact that she felt embarrassed
this means that he had no clue
he wasn't paying attention at all and
you can see in this fun image
this perfectly describes oblivious he's
looking at his phone he's telling
someone
i'll see you later take care and then
he's about to step in a giant hole he is
oblivious he's not paying attention
this is a beautiful word to talk about
someone who just has no idea
they're just oblivious they're not
knowing what's going on
let's go to the next one number 12 one
of the worst types of
bullying is to someone from the group
is to fund someone from the group
is to ostracize someone from the group
which one of these words is the best
i'll give you three two
one the correct answer is one of the
worst types of bullying
is to ostracize someone
from the group this means that you push
them away you ignore them you don't let
them
be your friend be part of the group this
is something that is really harsh
especially for teenagers because they
really want to
have friends and fit in so this is
pretty tough if you were ostracized
as a kid or as a teenager i'm sorry
that's
really a difficult situation number 13 i
was going to rest inside today but
after i saw the sunny weather i decided
to go for a hike
of the moment what is that word there
spur of the moment or top of the moment
which one of those words fits the best
i'll give you three seconds two seconds
one second
the answer is i decided to go for a hike
spur of the moment if you are in the
fearless fluency club this month
you know that we have talked about this
word spur of the moment
it means spontaneously i didn't plan it
i was in fact planning to rest
but instead i saw the weather and
thought hey i'll just go outside and go
for a hike i did it
spur of the moment i did it
spontaneously let's go to the next one
number 15
looking at your phone too much can hurt
your eyes but if you
your body will hurt as well if you
sling your body will hurt as well
if you slouch your body will hurt as
well
which one of these two words will you
choose
three two one the answer is
looking at your phone too much can hurt
your eyes but
if you slouch your body will hurt as
well
this action of not sitting up straight
but slouching is a common vocabulary
word these days because a lot of people
are starting to feel concerned about
your posture while you're looking at
your phone especially young people are
looking at their phones a lot during
their bodies
formative years and so slouching can
cause a lot of problems
later in life so a lot of parents say
don't slouch
don't slouch sit up or teachers say that
hey don't slouch sit up
look at your posture right now are you
slouching
or are you sitting up you can take a
moment to correct your posture
and don't slouch let's go to the next
one sentence number 15.
this is the last one you got this the
sentence is
someone said it's gonna snow tomorrow i
know it's only
october but i guess it's
but i guess it's plausible but i guess
it's
passable which one of these two words is
the best
three two one
well someone said it's gonna snow
tomorrow it's only october
but i guess it's plausible plausible
don't forget that
l sound they're plausible this means
that
it's possible but not likely
you can see here in this fun image that
i found i was doing a search for the
word plausible because i wanted to show
an image to you
and this image is perfect for the word
plausible
they're showing how the dinosaurs
disappeared
maybe in the science world there's some
controversy about how dinosaurs
disappear i don't really know i haven't
really researched it that much
but here is a plausible
it's possible but not likely situation
we have the animals on the ark this is
kind of the
uh christian idea of the animals getting
saved in the flood and they are
shooting and killing the dinosaurs do
you think this happened
very unlikely but there's no way to
prove it
so it is plausible and that is
a fun way to use the word plausible so
if someone tells you something that's
pretty unbelievable but
it's maybe possible you could say oh
it's plausible
okay it's not likely but it's plausible
now i have a challenge for you we've
talked about 15
excellent advanced english vocabulary
words i want you
to choose one or more if you'd like and
try to make your own sentence in the
comments with this word
we've got a lot of options here and if
you have any questions about what i
explained
feel free to ask i'll try my best to
help thank you so much for learning
english with me and i'll see you again
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