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sound intelligent then this lesson might
just be the thing that you need welcome
back to love English in today's lesson
I'm going to share with you ten advanced
adjectives that are going to help you
sound intelligent smart educated and of
course native now these ten adjectives
are advanced but they are also commonly
used in day-to-day English whether
spoken or written in today's lesson I'm
going to give you ten sentences with a
very boring dull common adjective and
I'll then be replacing it with a more
advanced one one that will impress any
native speaker and of course your
teacher whether you want to sound more
professional more academic or generally
impress your native speaking of friends
these ten adjectives are really going to
help boost your fluency and your English
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adjectives better if you use them so on
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ten adjectives to help you sound
incredibly intelligent native and fluent
number one the party was boring the
party was boring the lesson was boring
although of course he would never say
that about my lessons rather than using
the word boring try this one mundane
mundane it is a synonym of boring
mundane uninteresting dull boring the
party was rather mundane the lesson was
a bit mundane wasn't it and then he fell
asleep you can use the modifier rather
to express a little bit more
sophistication in your sentences it was
rather mundane it was a little mundane
it was really mundane right number two
difficult the homework was incredibly
difficult it was really really hard so
difficult and hard rather use arduous
arduous the homework was arduous meaning
difficult requiring a lot of effort and
concentration something that really you
didn't enjoy doing so arduous the
homework she gave us was arduous number
three when someone doesn't care they're
not particularly interested or concerned
you cheated on the test this is serious
you should really care a little bit more
you really shouldn't be so flippant that
was quite an important test to cheat on
so when you describe a person as being
flippant you are criticizing them for
not taking something as seriously as
they should you shouldn't be so flippant
about the exams number four annoyed
annoyed we all use this word often when
we're talking about family or studying
so when you're doing something you're
working hard and things are not
happening the way you want them to
you're not being successful in what you
are trying to achieve and you're annoyed
frustrated
quite probably tired I was exasperated
after trying to fix the engine for three
hours I was exasperated after trying to
work out the math equation but just
couldn't do it it could also be because
you're giving people instructions and
they are still not following them so as
a teacher I might become
exasperated when my students don't
complete their homework when I ask them
to luckily I've got some very good
students at the moment so I am rarely
exasperated number five if you don't
know something you're not aware of it
but really you're not aware of it
because you haven't paid much attention
you're not really caring to be oblivious
to something he walked into class
fifteen minutes late and was completely
oblivious that the teacher was
exasperated he was totally oblivious to
how rude he sounded at the party but
everybody else noticed oblivious the
next two I'm going to give you can be
interchangeable they are essentially
synonyms of each other but with some
small differences if you say somebody is
so tidy and organized or she takes
exceptional care when doing something
particularly when it's to do with
cleaning and tidying you could say
fastidious she is incredibly fastidious
meaning it to be concerned with small
details paying attention to what you do
now the next word meticulous meticulous
is very similar in meaning to pay close
attention to something that you do she
is meticulous when completing her
homework everything is done perfectly
and she doesn't miss anything she's
concerned with accuracy and detail
meticulous now the difference between
these two words
is that fastidious is usually connected
to cleaning being tidy and organized
whereas meticulous can be both and in
fact can be used in more situations so
with say someone is meticulous when it
comes to their homework but may be
fastidious when it comes to organizing
their desk so a person who is not
fastidious if
said they're not very fastidious you
might be implying that they're dirty or
unclean or untidy if you say that
somebody is not very meticulous you
could be saying they're essentially
sloppy and not caring about how they do
things number eight that film was really
complicated did you understand the
storyline I really didn't follow it
convoluted convoluted so if you describe
particularly a story a plan or even an
argument when someone's trying to
explain the reason that they're doing
something and people don't agree you
could say that's a rather convoluted
argument or the film was so convoluted I
really didn't understand the plot at all
so convoluted a fantastic adjective
meaning essentially rather complicated
and difficult to follow number nine
conscientious conscientious now you
might have heard this word before it is
very common and if your teacher has said
that you're a conscientious student they
have paid you a real compliment to do
your work well with duty and respect
taking something seriously and being
careful how you do it so if someone is
described as a conscientious student
they would be paying attention in class
taking notes doing their homework and
probably doing some extra study in the
evening as well at the moment my media
students are exceptionally conscientious
and therefore they are succeeding in
their studies
so comment below are you a conscientious
student and finally number 10 zealous
zealous so zealous an adjective meaning
to put a great deal of effort into
something it's actually used sometimes
with the prefix overzealous to be
overzealous can be quite negative so
basically it means when someone tries
very very hard putting a lot of effort
in and enthusiasm into something a
synonym might be eager keen really
wanting to do something or achieve
something she was really very zealous in
expressing her plans and ideas to the
class in fact I think she may have been
overzealous
to the point that the class really
weren't very happy with her ideas so
going back to being a student
if a student is overzealous perhaps they
are always putting their hand up in
class and answering the questions before
everybody else and there we have it 10
advanced adjectives that I will remind
you are commonly used in English these
are not random words that I found in a
dictionary these are words that we
really do use on a day-to-day basis so
if you've got any extra words that you'd
like to share below any advanced
vocabulary that you have come across and
during your studies then please do share
them with other students and of course
try using some of these 10 adjectives in
a sentence for me to check if you'd like
to look at some more examples of
vocabulary or expressions to help you
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