hello and welcome to this lesson today
i'm going to test your english
vocabulary i'm going to test your
knowledge of 15 advanced words and
you're going to see
how good is your advanced english
vocabulary
and at the same time you're going to
feel comfortable adding these 15 new
advanced english words to your
vocabulary are you ready for the test
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today let's test your knowledge of
advanced english vocabulary so here's
how the test is going to work you're
going to see a sentence and there's
going to be a blank a missing word and
then you're going to be given two
options option a option b
and then you have to decide which option
completes the sentence now when i give
you the options i'll give you three
seconds of course that isn't very long
right so feel free to hit pause take as
much time as you need and then hit play
when you're ready to see the answer
sound good are you ready to start the
quiz
let's go with question number one do you
think the discount will
the
client which option a or b i'll give you
three seconds
appease the client appease is a verb we
use this when you want to give someone
something they want in order to make
them happy or in order to prevent
further disagreement
so i'm giving them a discount to make
them happy it will appease them
now if you said b
appeal keep in mind that appeal has a
very similar meaning it means to be
attractive to but grammatically the
sentence is incorrect because if you use
appeal it's appeal to
the client and because i don't have the
preposition to b is an incorrect option
grammatically question two
she's a very
employee
option one option two
the correct answer is a
diligent she's a very diligent employee
to be diligent this means to be careful
or using a lot of effort and attention
to detail for example
i worked diligently on the report all
week so notice in this case it's an
adverb diligently i worked diligently on
the report all week question three sorry
i can't help i'm
at math
a or b
b
inept i'm inept at math to be inept at
something this means to not be skilled
or to be ineffective at something
i'm inept at math
number four
she's the most
member of our team
a or b
a
gregarious
b
is incorrect grammatically we can't say
most great you would say greatest right
so grammatically b doesn't work a
gregarious to be gregarious when someone
is described as gregarious it means that
they're very social they enjoy being
around other people so what about you
let us know in the comments would you
describe yourself as a gregarious person
do you enjoy being around other people
are you very social
let us know in the comments so you can
practice that word number five we need
to
with the accounting department
a or b
the answer is b
follow up with grammatically a is
incorrect you don't follow out with
someone you follow up with someone and
this means that you continue a
discussion or conversation that was
previously
started i could say i already followed
up with the accounting department i
already continued the conversation we
had previously started number six
that's a difficult concept to
a or b
b
to grasp when you grasp something it
simply means that you understand it so
it's the same as saying that's a
difficult concept to understand that's a
difficult concept to grasp number seven
you should
all your debt to reduce your interest
rate
a or b
b
consolidate consolidate when you
consolidate two or more things it means
you combine them together
so if i said the two firms consolidated
last year
this means that last year there was firm
a firm b but now because they
consolidated there's one firm so the two
become one consolidate
number eight the book discusses his
illness and
resignation from politics
a
or b
a
subsequent his subsequent resignation
from politics this has a simple meaning
subsequent just means something that
comes
after
something else so first he had his
illness and after he resigned his
subsequent resignation his resignation
that came after his illness
we commonly use this as an adverb to
start a sentence so i could say he moved
to australia
subsequently
he got married and i'm using
subsequently to let you know that he got
married after something else and that
something else is
after he moved to australia he moved to
australia subsequently he got married
number nine he gets stressed out when
he's
a
or b
the correct answer has to be b
under pressure because over pressure is
the wrong preposition the preposition
you need is under pressure to be under
pressure and that's simply when you have
a lot of work and you're feeling
overwhelmed you're feeling anxious
you're feeling stressed out
you can use this positively and say i
work really well
under pressure so when i have a lot of
work i actually perform better not worse
i work really well under pressure number
10 women face a lot of
in the workplace
a or b
well ostrich is a bird
so women don't face a lot of ostriches
in the workplace they face a lot of
obstacles obstacles
an obstacle is something that blocks you
and it can be something physical
like a roadblock or it can be something
non-physical
like discrimination so it's something
that blocks you from making progress
that's an obstacle number 11 thank you
for your
remark
a or b
the answer is be
pertinent pertinent remark when
something is pertinent
it means it's relevant to the topic or
discussion at hand so let's say you're
having a conversation and then someone
raises a point and you think the point
is very relevant to the topic or
conversation you can say that's
pertinent
that's pertinent that's relevant related
to our topic at hand number 12
you can
that to the interns a or b
b
delegate you can delegate that to the
interns when you delegate something is
when you give someone else
responsibility for a task or a specific
job so when you're doing a task that you
really don't want to be doing you can
say i wish i had someone to delegate
this to i wish i had someone who i could
give this task to
number 13 i have a really
workload this month
a
or b
a
heavy b
is a direct translation it's not
something that we use in natural english
it sounds awkward and unnatural a heavy
is the adjective that we use to describe
our workload when your workload is heavy
it simply means you have a lot of work
to do
and what's the opposite of heavy
the opposite is light right light so
when you don't have a lot of work to do
you would say i have a light workload
heavy workload light workload so what
about you how would you describe your
workload right now would you say it's
heavy or light let us know in the
comments so you practice this new
expression number 14 the police have
been unable to
what caused the explosion
a
or b
b
ascertain
ascertain when you ascertain something
you discover something so to ascertain
the cause of the explosion is to
discover the cause of the explosion to
understand why
so when the police do understand why
they discover it they can say we've
finally ascertained what caused the
explosion it was a faulty gas line and
then they can tell you the cause of the
explosion and finally your last question
in the quiz number 15. you've been
all week just do it already
a
or b
the answer is
b
procrastinating
you've been procrastinating all week
when you procrastinate it means that you
delay doing something
but that something has to be done
and you delay doing it and why well
generally because it's
like chores around the house cleaning
the garage cleaning the bathroom doing
the dishes it's unpleasant or it's
simply boring like organizing your
closet or filing your paperwork so you
delay doing it but it has to be done
that's procrastinating so how'd you do
on the quiz was it easy for you was it
difficult for you
either way you've just added 15 new
words to your vocabulary so have fun
practicing these new words let us know
in the comments how you did and the ones
you got wrong choose one two or three of
them and practice them in the comments
so you get comfortable with them and you
can add it to your new vocabulary and if
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