hi and welcome back to love English if
like me you don't always have the time
to read a big thick book but you still
want to be able to boost your vocabulary
to ensure that you're continuously
developing your vocabulary in English
and hopefully finding some new words
that are more advanced sophisticated and
will help you feel a little bit more
intelligent when you speak now in
today's lesson I am NOT going to be
reading George Orwell's 1984 although I
do recommend it but I'm going to be
sharing 10 verbs that I think are more
advanced 10 verbs that you actually will
hear used frequently often in English
whether spoken written business academic
or even just day-to-day conversation
these verbs are commonly used but they
are more formal more academic and a
little bit more advanced it's not
necessarily about getting the reading
glasses on oh that's better
and reading a big thick book the words
are around you wherever you go
whether you're listening to a
conversation in English watching the
news reading a newspaper or indeed just
surfing the internet you will find a lot
of these words verbs adjectives nouns
wherever you go when you are immersing
yourself in English but what I want you
to do is try and limit yes limit the
number of words you learn a day learning
10 words per day is a perfect number
don't over stretch yourself don't think
that you can learn 100 words a day
people that tell you to do that really
I'm not giving you the best advice it is
much better to focus on ten words in
this case we're looking at 10 verbs so
narrowing that subject down whether
they're verbs whether they're words for
academic writing whether they are
advanced adjectives set yourself a
target daily to help you broaden your
vocabulary and as I'm going to ask you
to do in this lesson make sure that you
are actively using these words so I'm
going to give you 10
I'm going to copy and paste those ten
verbs in the description box below and
what I'm asking you to do is to copy and
paste them into your comment and write a
sentence with them yes I'm giving you
some homework it is so important when
you're learning new vocabulary that you
actually put them into a context a
situation that is relevant to you I
don't need to use the verbs today in a
very random situation no I want you to
think about a way that you personally
could actually use these words and like
I said these are 10 common advanced
verbs in English that I use
I've actually paid attention to myself
as I've been speaking conversing with
friends family and I've made a note of
these verbs so these are verbs that I
would commonly use they're not crazy
they're not too difficult to pronounce
and yep they will instantly help you
sound more intelligent in English so are
you ready okay number one to ascertain
ascertain now to ascertain has
predominantly two meanings they're more
or less similar it can mean to discover
something or it can mean to make certain
of something to be sure something is
true so to discover the police have been
unable to ascertain what caused the fire
the police have been unable to ascertain
what caused the fire to make sure of
something to be certain i ascertained
that no one could hear us before I told
him the news we really need to ascertain
whether the figures are indeed accurate
in the report so to ascertain to
discover or to make sure of something
remember this is more formal so you
probably wouldn't say to your friend I
think we need to ascertain whether he
actually wants to go out with you sounds
strange I think we need to find out or
discover in some situations we would
expect more informal colloquial English
rather than these more formal verbs
number two to reciprocate reciprocate
this is referring to something that goes
both ways so for example if you go to a
friend's house to dinner and you have a
lovely evening at the end of the dinner
you might say to them I really must
reciprocate this lovely meal you'll have
to visit us soon
or my feelings for him were not
reciprocated he really didn't feel the
same way
so to reciprocate to do something for
someone when they have done it for you
it goes both ways
we've also got the adjective reciprocal
reciprocal their feelings were
reciprocal number three and I really
like this verb I don't know why but
cajole cajole it really does sound a bit
strange when you say it but it's a very
common verb and it does sound a little
bit more intelligent so when you cajole
someone into doing something pay
attention to the structure of the
sentence there so she could jeweled me
into going out for dinner that night
when I was really too tired to go so
you're persuading some wanted to do
something talking them round in a
convincing way to persuade the one
really they didn't want to do that thing
in the first place you could roll
someone into doing something and manage
to cajole her into staying a little bit
longer most effective technique is to
cajole rather than to threaten so to
talk someone around in order to persuade
them number four to hinder hinder this
could essentially be substituted by the
word prevent it means to limit the
ability of someone or something to do
something so it's making it difficult
for that person to achieve what they
want you'd often hear the word hinder in
a news broadcast for example high winds
have hindered their efforts to control
the fire all in the office you might
hear someone say her constant talking
over the desk was really hindering my
concentration her lack of experience
certainly hasn't hindered her progress
here so to hinder to prevent or limit
the ability of someone or something to
do that thing that they wanted to do
number five exacerbate exhaust
eight basically to make something worse
more something that is already pretty
bad a lot worse
she exacerbated the situation by
continuing to complain Donald Trump
often exacerbates political tensions
that already exist are you aware that
work in an environment where it's dusty
can really exacerbate your asthma there
we go
to make a bad situation even worse
number six to Ghana Ghana to Ghana is to
collect something but usually it takes a
lot of work and is quite difficult Ghana
is usually used when referring to
information and certainly approval so
for example in a meeting after many
hours of discussion you might say we
managed to garner support for the
project we managed to garner support for
the project the police
struggled to garner sufficient evidence
the police struggled to garner
sufficient evidence number seven
to facilitate facilitate again another
Commonwealth formal verb that we would
use when we're talking about making
something easier or possible so we were
able to facilitate the discussion by
sitting them both down in the office the
new rabbit will facilitate the entry of
wheelchairs the current structure of the
business does not facilitate efficient
workflow so there we go to facilitate to
make something possible or easier to
facilitate is almost an antonym of
hinder whereas hinder you would refer to
limiting or preventing something from
happening facilitate is allowing it to
happen making it easier and possible
number eight could you elaborate on that
a little bit further fascinating so to
elaborate is to explain to go into more
detail so rather than saying what do you
mean or explain further you could say
could you elaborate further
could you talk in more detail and
explain to me a little bit more this
could be because maybe you don't
understand everything that they're
explaining or that you genuinely are
very interested and you want them to
elaborate so a great verb particularly
for a business situation right number
nine
this is actually a noun but it
collocates with a verb you need this
verb with this noun in order to have the
full phrase so to take umbrage to take
umbrage now i've included this verb noun
collocation because it's one that i
would often use basically it means to
feel upset to feel maybe even offended
in some way because you feel someone has
been rude or disrespectful in some way I
think she took umbrage when you
dismissed her suggestion in the meeting
so to take umbrage
she took umbrage he took umbrage to
become upset annoyed because you feel
that someone has been rude or
disrespectful no need to take umbrage I
wasn't intending to offend and finally
number 10 to reiterate reiterate to say
something again once or several times
just to reiterate we need to be here at
10 o'clock tomorrow for the meeting so
rather than saying I need to tell you
again I want to say again say just to
reiterate just to reiterate the
government has reiterated its warnings
regarding coronavirus and social
distancing so there we have it 10 simple
but advanced and commonly used verbs in
English and like I said don't be lazy
comment below and try using some of
these 10 verbs and let me know how many
of those verbs did you already know I
would be very impressed if you knew more
than five I think these are verbs that
you would more commonly associate with
more advanced or even native English
speakers but there's nothing stopping
you from using them now thank you so
much for watching and let me know what
other advanced words would you like to
learn take care bye