Hi everyone, it's Agnieszka Murdoch from 5-Minute Language, welcome to my channel. In
this video I'm going to teach you 30 very useful advanced English verbs are you ready
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lessons like this one so the first verb I want to teach you is to confront to confront somebody
means to come face to face with somebody who is hostile or who is being argumentative so
for example you can confront somebody who has behaved badly towards you so you can confront
them and you can tell them you didn't like it together together when people gather they
come together as a group so for example we gathered at my house which means we had a
get-together a gathering a group of people came to my house together we gathered at my house
to betray when you betray somebody it's usually when they trust you but you did something that
is not loyal or something that is harmful to them you betray them or betray their trust to resist
to resist means that you fight against something for example a Temptation so you really want to
have some chocolate but you want to resist the temptation to have chocolate because you're
trying to lose weight so when you resist it you fight against that feeling to retain to
retain means to continue to have something for example power or money or information so
you can retain control over something you can retain information which means you keep lots of
information in your memory so when you're learning you can retain a lot of information to clarify to
clarify something means to make something easier to understand so for example I had to clarify my
instructions so I had to make my instructions easier to understand to eliminate to eliminate
means to remove something for example you can eliminate gluten from your diet which means you
remove all the foods that contain gluten from your diet you eliminate it to establish to establish
something means to set it up so for example you can establish a scheme or an organization to gain
to gain means to obtain something or to get hold of something so for example you can gain control
which means you begin to have control or you can gain weight which means you become a little bit
heavier to implement means to put something into operation so usually you can Implement
a plan for example which means you take all the different steps to make that plan a reality you
implement it to overcome to overcome something means to find a way to tackle a problem so for
example you can overcome your fear of heights which means you're scared of heights and it's
a problem for you but you find a way to fix it so you overcome that fear to reduce to reduce means
to make something smaller so for example you can reduce the amount of money that you spend
on something which means you make that amount smaller so instead of spending twenty dollars a
month on coffee you decide to spend ten dollars a month to simplify to simplify means to make
something simpler to make it easier so for example you can simplify the process of making pancakes by
buying a ready-made mix it makes things easier and simpler so you simplify it to transform
to transform means to change something in a way that makes it unrecognizable so for example you
can transform your living room by buying some new furniture and painting the walls a different color
it will be completely different which means you have transformed it to flee to flee means
to escape from something or from somewhere so for example criminal can flee the scene of the
crime which means they escape they try to avoid being caught by the police to seek means to look
for something so to seek help for example means to look for help to notify to notify means to
give someone information about something like an update so for example we need to notify our staff
of a change in our policies so we need to let them know that there's been a change to unveil
to unveil something means to make it known or to show it publicly usually for the first time
so you can unveil a statue for example you show it to the public for the first time to authorize
to authorize something is to give permission for something to happen so for example I have
asked my boss to authorize my leave so I've asked them for permission to take some time off work
to dismiss to dismiss has different meanings but it can for example mean that you say
that something is unimportant so for example my concerns were dismissed by my friend so my friend
gave me the impression that my concerns were not important to estimate to estimate means to give
an approximate value of something or to guess a scenario so for example you can estimate how old
somebody is when you don't know how old they are you can look at them and you can estimate it you
can say this person is approximately 35 years old to provide to provide something to somebody
means to give them something that they need or want so for example my hotel provided breakfast
so it gave me breakfast because as a guest I needed it to purchase
to purchase is a more advanced way of saying to buy it's the same thing
often it's used in business English a company can purchase different things which means it can buy
them to obtain to obtain means to get something or to get hold of something so for example I obtained
some money from my relative which means I got it I got hold of it to expand to expand means to make
something bigger so for example I have decided to expand my business which means I want to
make it bigger to extend means to make something longer so for example I have to extend my holiday
because my plane has been canceled which means I'm going to make my holiday a bit longer to reveal
to reveal means to show something publicly usually it's a piece of information so you can reveal a
secret which means you make it known to other people or you can reveal a piece of information
about yourself which means you share it with other people to amend to amend means to make
small changes to the wording of something usually a document so for example I've asked the office
assistant to amend my contract which means I've asked them to make small changes to how
my contract was written to originate to originate means to come from somewhere to begin somewhere so
for example Jazz originated in the United States it means it started there it comes from there it
originates there and the final one to foresee to foresee means to predict something or to realize
something before it actually happens so for example he didn't foresee the consequences of his
actions so he didn't predict them he didn't think that there would be consequences so I hope you
found this video useful make sure you subscribe to my channel and tell me three new Advanced
verbs that you learned from the video in the comments and I'll see you in the next video bye