hi and welcome back to love English so
today a really simple lesson three words
that I want you to stop using why do I
want you to stop using these words well
if you do you're going to have to learn
some new vocabulary it will force you to
expand and build on the current
vocabulary you have it is really easy
and sometimes a bit lazy to stick to
using these three words and if you
follow my simple suggestion you should
be able to build your vocabulary range
up much faster now before I tell you
what the three words are you need to
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right so the three words I want you to
stop using or at least avoid using as
much so really and very now these are
incredibly useful words to have in the
English language
they put emphasis on words that they add
something to the sentence making it
stronger however you guys get a little
bit lazy and it is not uncommon for me
to read in some of the academic essays
that my students produce very good very
bad very tired okay very boring guys
that come on you can think of better
words than that so what I'm asking you
to do today is to avoid using at those
three words and try expanding your
vocabulary by learning synonyms now I'm
gonna go through some really common
adjectives that I use you use we all use
very regularly now I'm gonna go through
some of at the top adjectives that we
use regularly when we speak when we
write when we text but I'm gonna give
you some alternatives some more advanced
words that you could use instead of very
good very bad very interesting very
boring so let's get started with very
really so good instead of good why don't
you try using fantastic incredible
amazing outstanding the concert was
outstanding not the concert was very
good my personal favorite spectacular
spectacular the album is spectacular
we had a spectacular party this is a
little bit more formal which really
means you have to think about the words
that you use and check them but simply
go through a word document and type
synonym doing this is
a bit difficult because very often the
synonyms that we have will have slightly
different meanings or be used in
different situations for example formal
informal so I will be explaining some of
these subtle differences with the
adjectives I'm giving you now now
likewise bad so bad very bad really bad
bad it's a three letter words that you
learn at elementary level and really you
can do better than that
my personal favorite awful awful the
music sounds awful the dinner was awful
you've got terrible it was terrible
now a little bit stronger so that's what
I mean by these subtleties of different
is horrendous horrendous is really
really really bad her outfit was
horrendous I mean this is really strong
so avoid using it unless something is
really bad and be careful not to insult
anyone with this word a more
sophisticated advanced adjective might
be atrocious atrocious her taste in
clothes is atrocious the essay was
atrocious so again very insulting don't
use it to somebody's face and they are
stronger terrible and awful would be a
less strong equivalent you've then got
adjectives like tired and sleepy and
we've got loads of alternatives for
these the best one of course is
exhausted I was exhausted after the
party the children were exhausting I was
so tired
remember ing the thing that makes me
feel but edie is how you feel weary is a
lovely alternative to tired not too
strong just saying I'm feeling a little
tired I'm feeling a little weary but we
get knackered is a great slang word much
more informal you could use it with
friends you wouldn't use it in a
business situation I was knackered after
the party I was knackered after looking
after the children be careful of the
pronunciation it's nakid not naked
a phrasal verb that is also used as an
adjective worn out the children wore me
out
there's the phrasal verb I was worn out
there's the adjective and of course one
you might not have heard shattered
I felt shattered at the end of the day
another common adjective angry really
angry so angry very angry
how boring much better to say I was
furious I was furious very angry but
remember with some of these extreme
adjectives you wouldn't use very or
really because they are extreme
adjectives so furious the equivalent of
very angry would be totally furious
furious but not very furious or really
furious irritated not so strong as
furious a little bit angry you could
also use annoyed I was annoyed again not
as strong as angry or even frustrated
okay it was making me feel annoyed a
little bit angry so the best alternative
would probably be furious okay this is a
great word because there are so many
different kind of rich adjectives to use
instead of hungry so rather than saying
I'm so hungry I'm starving I'm ravenous
ravenous very formal nice advanced word
for you peckish means a little hungry
I'm quite peckish at the moment or
famished again I'm really hungry I'm
famished
feeling quite peckish at the moment okay
next happy again happy is like good like
bad like tired like hungry it's boring
it doesn't really say very much and it's
such a common adjective so instead of
saying I'm happy you could use LA
which means very very happy elated I was
elated when I got the job a little bit
more formal but it really is a nice word
to use instead of happy another
equivalent would be glad so in the same
way that we would use happy we could use
glad I was glad to hear her news again
more formal a little bit more restraint
so you could use this maybe in business
situations I was glad to hear his news
that's a really good one
you could have ecstatic overjoyed over
the moon there's an idiom there for you
I was over the moon when you told me
your news so all of these are great
replacements for happy excited is very
similar to happy obviously you've got
lots of positive energy and maybe you
could use something like thrilled I was
excited I was thrilled it's also very
similar to happy so there's a lot of
overlap with these two adjectives eager
eager that could mean again that you're
happy about something and you really
want to do something some nice
alternative I was excited to start the
job I was eager to start the job works
really well and of course there's
enthusiastic enthusiastic be careful if
you don't like that th sound
enthusiastic he was really enthusiastic
about the project he was really
enthusiastic about the project rather
than saying he was really excited nice
ok this is one that I just randomly
thought of but very often you might want
to describe something hopefully not
someone as smelly and I thought rather
than smelly we could use words like pong
e pong that's the verb pong e would be
the adjective so there was a pong in the
air or it was a bit pong e the food was
a bit horny yeah don't use it when
you're talking about the person
shouldn't really use smelly either it's
quite rude but I thought these were
quite nice adjectives to teach you with
me that's a bit more formal so there was
a
the widths in the air now her shoes were
a bit whiffy it's not a bit cheesy
really strong is foul we could say
something is foul-smelling so the gone
off cheese says a phrasal verb for you
the gone off cheese was foul-smelling
what it just smells so badly it's
disgusting so those are your
alternatives or smelly scared is another
adjective that has lots of synonyms that
are equivalent again some extreme
adjectives like terrified you can't say
so terrified very terrified you could
say really or totally terrified but
because it is an extreme adjective often
you don't need to add the emphasis and
it sounds strange when you try to so
scared terrified petrified or horrified
horrified so again
Edie is how you feel ing is the thing
that makes you feel horrifying
terrifying petrifying okay another word
that we would often use to describe
women isn't beautiful beautiful remember
beautiful is for women handsome is for
men good-looking
it's for all of us but beautiful is a
common adjective and you might want to
think of some alternatives so for women
stunning gorgeous gorgeous attractive
good-looking I've already told you
and of course handsome for men so
stunning and gorgeous are really good
adjectives to use instead of beautiful
again we can use them for people and we
can use some things flowers are stunning
that picture is stunning it's gorgeous
so better than using just plain
beautiful right
so we've got also bossy alright how many
people do you want to say are bossy
always telling you what to do how to do
it very annoying you could use that
domineering domineering
so this is where somebody's personality
is
so strong they tried to be stronger than
other people not always a very good
characteristic overbearing overbearing
again the same meaning as bossy and of
course dictatorial dictatorial coming
from dictator which is kind of
self-explanatory I think dangerous
rather than very dangerous so dangerous
really dangerous you could say hazardous
treacherous that's a nice one
treacherous or perilous perilous the
sport is very hazardous walking across
the mountain was a hazardous you'll see
these work as well in different
situations a hazard again we've got the
noun form rather than a danger the
danger is the standard adjective we've
got those other adjectives we could use
instead hazardous treacherous perilous
now thankfully this is not one of my
students favorite adjectives bored bored
and boring I'm bored
it's boring don't use boring use your
imagination and think of another
adjective dull uninteresting which when
we put the prefix before interesting
obviously makes it negative but it's
also less rude rather than saying the
presentation was boring you could say
hmm with a little uninteresting so this
is a nice diplomatic way to say
something is boring or you could say
worked I was a bit irked it was Aksum
again more formal actually so you
wouldn't necessarily use this in
everyday English maybe in business
English or academic English but again
bored is such a boring word try one of
those alternatives similarly and of
course but luckily we've got interesting
so the film was interesting again not
the most imaginative adjectives to use
why not try an extreme adjective
fascinating fascinating I was fascinated
it was fascinating intrigued intriguing
the film was intriguing curious curious
usually used to describe cats because
they're always interested in everything
he's got a very curious mind not a very
interested mind but a very curious mind
engrossed I was engrossed in the film
remember that these adjectives do have
slightly different so when you are
engrossed in something you are so
absorbed in it you just are really
interested that you can't focus on
anything else engrossed or another
alternative a final alternative
captivated captivating the film was
captivating it was so interesting but it
also had a slightly more romantic
artistic feel to this word so
captivating I hope this lesson was
captivating and I hope it's going to
encourage you to realize how rich the
English language is that there are so
many alternatives to those boring dull
adjectives that we use every day they
are super easy to use
but you have to practice so comment in
the box below and just write some
sentences was it black and dull or was
it captivating are you feeling peckish
or are you just starving remember the
subtle differences in some of these
adjectives and the different situation
you can use them in but thank you very
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