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Are you ready to learn 15 advanced words to help you sound fluent in English?
Let's get started with number one.
Number one, To Urge.
The sentence structure is to urge someone to do something.
Urge is a verb and it means to strongly advise or persuade someone to do something.
For example, the lawyer urged him to take the deal.
So the lawyer strongly advised him the lawyer tried to persuade him to take the deal.
The lawyer urged him to take the deal.
Number two, Amid.
Amid.
This is a preposition.
There's an alternative spelling which is amidst, amidst.
So you're adding "st" on the end.
They mean exactly the same thing.
Amid is more popular and common in American English.
So that's the one I urge you to use.
Now as a preposition, this means in the middle of or surrounded by.
So let me give you an example sentence.
Tesla launched its new car amid a lot of publicity.
So we have the launch of the new car.
Now remember, amid means in the middle of or surrounded by so you can almost imagine
here's their launch of the new car and then surrounded around that launch is all this
publicity.
Publicity is just media attention.
So that's when we use amid.
Tesla launch their new car amid a lot of publicity.
Number three, To Roam.
To Roam.
This is a great one.
You can add this to your daily vocabulary.
Because to roam, this means to move about or travel without a clear direction of where
you're going.
But you do that on purpose.
You can think of it as an activity.
So when would you want to move around or move about without a clear direction of where you're
going?
Well, probably when you're on vacation or when you're exploring a new area, even of
your own city.
So you might find a new area and then you just roam around.
You go on this street and then you see something interesting and you go there and then you
see a store and then you go there.
You don't have a clear direction of where you're going.
Number four, To Encompass.
This means that you include a lot of different types of things for this one think of when
you go to a conference.
There are many different types of things, right?
There are different speakers, there are different topics.
There are different people in the audience.
There's different entertainment.
So all of these are different things.
Now the verb to encompass just means to include, so we could say the conference encompasses
many different speakers, entertainment, audience members, presentations, topics, and you can
go on and list the different categories of things.
The conference encompassed many different things.
Number five, Mired.
Mired.
Look at the spelling.
Now listen to my pronunciation, My-erd.
My-erd.
That's the pronunciation.
We use this when someone or something like a company is involved in a difficult situation.
It must be a difficult situation.
For example, the new company was mired in controversy, was mired in controversy.
They were involved in that situation.
And notice I use the word controversy, which is negative.
Number six, meticulously.
Ooh, that's a fun word to say.
Isn't it?
A little bit of a challenge for you.
Number six, meticulously, meticulously.
This is an adjective and as an adjective it means in a way that shows great attention
to detail.
For example, the entire project was meticulously planned.
Remember, adjectives are always optional.
So I could say the entire conference was planned.
But now I want to give more information about how it was planned.
And I want to say with a lot of attention to detail the entire conference was meticulously
planned.
So this is a positive adjective is somebody used it on you?
You would take that as a compliment.
Number seven, exacerbate.
Ooh another tricky one for pronunciation.
Exacerbate.
This is when you make something that's already bad, even worse.
We could say this attack will exacerbate the already tense relationship between the two
communities.
So remember, it's a bad situation.
That's why I used already tense relationship that is not a positive relationship.
So it's already bad, but then when you exacerbate it means you make it even worse.
This attack will exacerbate their relationship.
Number eight, to call for.
This is a phrasal verb and you call for something to happen.
And this is simply when you demand that something happened.
For example, the union called for his resignation.
The union called for.
The union demanded.
The union called for his resignation.
Number nine, swift, swift.
This is an adjective.
It's a fun adjective because it simply means quickly.
For example, the police took swift action against the rioters.
Swift action, so they acted very quickly.
Swift action.
Number 10, to erode, erode.
This is when you slowly reduce or destroy something.
You probably know this from a scientific perspective, because of erosion or when rocks erode is
when rocks naturally become smaller, smaller and smaller and smaller, because they gradually
reduce.
Well, the meaning is the exact same but instead of a rock I want you to imagine trust.
Trust between two people in a business relationship or a personal relationship as well.
And I could say these budget cuts could erode the public's trust.
So we have the public's trust.
Just like a rock, and it's eroding, it's getting smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller.
The trust is gradually decreasing.
And the reason why is because of the actions of the person, the budget cuts.
The budget cuts could erode the public's trust.
Number 11, to highlight.
This is when you want to attract attention to something specific or you want to emphasize
something specific.
For example, the report highlighted the need for increased safety measures.
So the report was written in a way that it took your attention to something specific
it emphasized specific information and that specific information is we need more safety
measures the report highlighted the need for increased safety measures.
Number 12, to expose.
This is when you make public something bad or something wrong.
So there's something wrong and most of the time people don't want that information public
right.
So when you take that wrongdoing, that someone wants to keep secret, and you make it public,
you expose, you expose that person or you expose that action, the bad action that that
person took.
For example, the report exposed government corruption.
So there's government corruption.
Of course the government does not want the public to know about it, right.
So when that information is made public, it's exposed.
The report exposed government corruption.
Number 13, fundamental.
This is when something is more important than anything else.
Fundamental, for example, it's one of the fundamental differences between men and women.
So there are many differences between men and women, obviously.
Remember, fundamental is more important than anything else.
Now notice how I didn't reveal that fundamental difference.
I just used "it's".
So you can decide what is the fundamental difference between men and women?
If you want, you can try to put that in the comments below.
It's the fundamental difference between men and women, what could it be?
Number 14, to deploy.
And you deploy resources, resources could be people in the form of their efforts and
the work their contribution, or it could be money, it could be supplies, things like that.
And you deploy resources.
What does this mean?
When you deploy resources, it means you simply use the resources but you use them in any
efficient way, or at least that a plan.
For example, the government is meeting to discuss how to deploy the funds.
So they don't know how they're going to use those resources in the best way.
And that's why they're meeting.
They're meeting to discuss how to deploy the fund.
And finally, number 15, to pitch.
You pitch an idea or a plan.
And this simply means you share an idea or a plan in a way that's meant to persuade,
persuade someone to do something specific or to buy something.
For example, we pitched them our strategy for how to deploy the resources.
So we have a plan, an idea, and we shared it with you.
But we did it in a way that we want you to say yes, we want you to accept our plan, that
is to pitch.
So now you have 15 advanced words to sound fluent in English.
Which one was your favorite?
Which one are you going to add to your vocabulary?
Put it in the comments below.
And then practice.
Practice an example sentence using your new favorite vocabulary.
And of course, you can practice more than one, two or three would be awesome.
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