hello hello hello everybody my name is steve ford welcome to your english lesson today
we've got a great lesson to help you expand your vocabulary so are you ready let's go
many people reach a certain level of english and they feel like they're starting to be on some kind
of plateau and here this lesson is going to help you to expand your vocabulary not just for your
work but also for general life so here's your opportunity to take a quiz you can leave your
comments i will be happy to read them and we're going to be doing a quiz to help you determine
what side of the spectrum what side of the line you sit and our first word
is egocentric and on the opposite end selfless so these are words that you might hear more in a
job interview in a formal setting and if we go to egocentric it means somebody who is selfish
it's that person me me me well that's enough about me let's talk about me that's egocentric
selfish me me me on the opposite end we have someone who is selfless now that's kind of a
high level word selfless but you could also use kind or caring so that's my first question for you
between these two words are you closer to egocentric closer to selfless
are you more in the middle think about it and let me know in your comments let's go to the next one
now some people are very competitive it starts when we're kids when we say my dad's stronger
than your dad my bike's bigger than your bike my house is bigger than your house and so on
and so on so you let me know are you a competitive kind of person now this really makes a difference
if we're talking about your work your career your job maybe you are competitive
many people have told me that they have a healthy competition with themselves for example
let's say that you run 10 kilometers and it takes you an hour well then maybe you try to beat
your own record that's a healthy competition so you let me know are you competitive at work
or uncompetitive where are you there or maybe you're more in the middle the next two that we
have here is flexible on one side or adaptable and then on the other side we have inflexible
you could say it that way inflexible or you could say somebody who is obstinate
obstinate is a high level word a lot of people would only use that in a more formal setting
you could use the more day-to-day one which would be stubborn somebody who's stumbled somebody who's
like a mule and it's really hard to get them to do anything to change their opinion to go where you
want them to go because they already have an idea of where they want to go so let me know are you
more in the middle in terms of your personality between flexible and obstinate or stubborn
are you more to the left a lot of people told me that they are very flexible and adaptable
now some people they make their decisions the big decisions those decisions that will determine the
next step in your life and they will base that decision on logic they are rational
other people are more intuitive they go with their gut feeling gut of course means your stomach so
you have this feeling and some people not all people they will even make business decisions
based on their intuition maybe supported by some logic
so what kind of person are you i would really like to know if you're somebody who's more logical
rational or if you're somebody that's more in the middle or maybe you use a little bit more of your
intuition your intuitive the next one we have here is open and discreet
open and discreet so somebody who is open in this case it means that they don't hide things
from people they're like an open book and that's a great idiom somebody who's very open if you
wanted to use a more formal word you could say forthcoming but that's very formal on the other
side as i said before we have somebody who is very discreet discreet so this is somebody maybe
they tell they have friends who tell secrets to them don't tell anybody and they don't they
clam up they are very closed-mouthed next we have aggressive and gentle so when i think of somebody
who's aggressive i think of somebody who's hot-headed this means that they not only get angry
easily they attack easily like a pit bull on the opposite end we have somebody who is gentle that
would be this kind of dog yes like a deer very gentle if you want another day-to-day word for
gentle you could say and this is used quite a bit it's very popular in slang is chill yes chill so
if somebody is oh that guy he's he's super chill that means that they're gentle they're laid back
so where are you on the scale are you sometimes more toward the aggressive side some people have
told me that they need to be aggressive for their work or maybe to defend their family
but maybe you're somebody who is more on the gentle side somebody who's more chill
last but not least we have daring and then on the opposite end we have cautious daring might
be a new word for you i'll give you another word that might be new for you which is bold
bold not bald but bold like with an o sound and daring bold a risk taker
somebody who's gutsy this is somebody that likes taking risks they don't have a problem taking
risks like jumping out of an airplane skydiving and then on the other end we have as i said before
cautious notice how i pronounce this cautious if you want to visualize it like that cautious great
to help you learn to pronounce it other words you could use wary and if you want to use a
collocation you could say playing it safe so i don't know you let me know sometimes
even when we're younger we tend to be more of a risk taker we tend to be more daring and then
as we get older maybe we start to slide into the middle or maybe we start to go in the direction of
being somebody who's more cautious weary playing it safe let me know in your comments discussion
do you have a friend whose life is an open book
is there anyone in your family who is stubborn
can you think of a situation when they were really hard-headed
do you have a friend who is super chill
is there anybody in your family who is hot-headed how do you do with them
have you ever done something daring in your life would you do it again
okay everybody i hope that this lesson is going to help you to improve your vocabulary in case you
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practice it on my website and i look forward to seeing you in my next english lesson bye for now