Hello you beautiful people, welcome to another video with me Tom. Today I'm going to tell
you my ten favourite english words of all time. Schmooze, Nincompoop, Schmooze, Nincompoop,
Epiphany! Alright, we're going to find out what they mean after this.
Now, I love making top ten lists. For example my top ten favourite countries that I've visited.
My top ten favourite films I've watched. You get the idea. Now today I've done my top ten
favourite words of all time. These are the words that I just love. Now maybe it's because
they sound really cool and I enjoy saying them. Maybe it's because I love the meaning
of them. It could be any reason. I hope you enjoy them, let's get to number one.
Alright, this first one is my favourite word of all time. I love saying this word. Now
technically it's two words but you'll forgive me. In cahoots. Oh I like that word. Right,
now this word means that people work together secretly usually for dishonest or illegal
reasons. So for example 'I'm sure the government and the bankers are working in cahoots.' How
good is that word? In cahoots. So you are just working together with somebody else secretly
to do something a little bit naughty. It doesn't have to be, it could be a fun thing as well
like it could be a cheeky naughty fun thing but yeah in cahoots. To be in cahoots with
someone. So you are in cahoots with someone.
Number two serendipity. It's a noun and it means, it's like a happy accident. It's when
event occur by chance and they have a happy ending. They have a positive outcome. So it
might be that by accident you found your life partner or that you met a person that could
help you get a new job. Whatever it is, it's the kind of magic in the air that kind of
brings us good fortune. Serendipity. Alright, an example sentence. 'It was serendipity that
he met his wife at university.' Number three wanderlust. Oh I just love saying it, it's
an amazing word to say. The meaning is a strong desire to travel and when I say the word wanderlust
I'm picturing images of tropical islands and mountains and all kinds of amazing places.
Wanderlust, that's a fun one to say. Now it's a noun and it means a strong desire to travel.
Let's put that into an example sentence 'Whenever I go on Instagram and I scroll through my
friends' travel photos, I get wanderlust.' Yep, I don't know about you, let me know in
the comments below. Do you ever get wanderlust when you go on Instagram? Let me know in the
comments below. Yeah, I get it pretty bad.
Number 4, this is amazing guys. The word is schmooze. Oh wow! That's an amazing word.
Ok, it's a verb and it comes originally from Yiddish. Ok, so it's a word that's been given
to English by the Yiddish language and it means to talk to someone in a friendly manner
but you have a reason or a motive you want to get something from them. So there's a reason
why you are being so friendly. You want to get something from them. People often do it
in a business context so maybe you are meeting clients and you have to get their business
then you might schmooze, you might sort of be overly friendly or more friendly maybe
than you would normally be to get their business or to get their attention or to make them
like you. So there is a reason why you are being so friendly to someone. To schmooze.
What a word! To schmooze. Alright let's put that into an example sentence. 'I spent all
night schmoozing with clients.' Schmooze, just say it a couple of times, schmooze. It's
so much fun to say, schmooze.
Guys this is the word that you need to learn today. Discombobulated. What! What was that
word? Discombobulated. Have you ever heard that word before? It's amazing. What a word!
Ok, so it's an adjective. It means confused or unsure. So an example sentence 'The jet
lag on this trip has made me feel really discombobulated.' So you are kind of confused, maybe because
you don't know what time zone you are in. You know maybe you were in Japan and then
you flew to London and you wake up and to you it's four o'clock in the morning but actually
it's eight at night. You feel totally confused, you don't really know where you are. You are
discombobulated. What a word! Yes! Try and use that in a sentence today, that's your
homework. Try and use the word discombobulated in a sentence.
Alright, we are straight in with another one, nincompoop. I laugh just saying it. That's
why I like it. This one makes me smile. It's a noun and it just means an idiot, a stupid
person. You can call someone a nincompoop and they are stupid, they are an idiot. It's
slightly old-fashioned maybe. I wouldn't say it in a serious way, I think it's quite a
humorous word so we say it in a funny way. 'What a nincompoop' 'That guy is such a nincompoop.'
To be honest I don't know how often I would say it but I love it and when I do say it
I enjoy saying it. Nincompoop.
I chose this word because I love the sound of it, lagoon. It's sounds tropical, it's
sounds beautiful. Lagoon. Please! Come on! Right, lagoon is a an area of water or area
of salt water that is separated from the sea by sand or by a coral reef or something like
that. So an example sentence 'Let's go and swim in the lagoon.' Can you imagine it like
beautiful clear water, sun shine, beautiful fish swimming in the lagoon, palms trees.
Yes! Lagoon. That's what I think about when I say the word lagoon, that's what I think
about.
Alright back again with another funny word, flummoxed. Come on! these words are amazing.
Flummoxed. How much fun is saying the word flummoxed. Now this is an adjective again.
It means kind of bewildered or perplexed and kind of confused as well. You kind of don't
know what to do, that's the thing like, when you are flummoxed you are sort of like 'oh
god I don't really know what to say or what to do in this situation.' An example sentence
'All my colleagues were asking me loads of questions in
the meeting and I got a little bit flummoxed.' So I didn't know what to say when they were
asking me these questions, I kind of was a bit confused. Ahh I don't know the answers,
too many questions. I was flummoxed. That's a good one.
Number nine sounds exactly like the meaning. So epiphany. What a word! Now, it's a noun
and it means a sudden moment of realisation. Epiphany. So that Epi, sounds like the appearance
of this realisation or this idea. Epiphany. Suddenly you realise this thing so 'I did
work experience in a hospital and it was a real epiphany for me.' And my final one, number
ten this is the cutest one of all, snuggle. Oh this is a nice one. This sounds like the
action. So to snuggle is a verb and it means to get yourself into a warm comfortable position.
So an example sentence would be I love that photo of you and your dog snuggling on the
sofa.' Can you imagine it like a puppy, snuggling with a puppy, that's pretty cool. Ok, so the
word is snuggle, to snuggle. Alright, those are my ten words, did you know all those words.
Were any of them new to you. I'm sure discombobulated must have been new for some of you at least.
Now what I want you to do is to tell me your favourite words in English, ok? So which words
do you love saying or do you love the meaning of? Let me know in the comments below. I'd
love to hear. Guys it's been a pleasure as always to share this video with you. I've
really enjoyed this one. This was fun. So if you enjoyed it, please let me know in the
comments below, give me a big thumbs up, I always appreciate that and share it with anyone
you know that's learning English. Of course I'll be back every Tuesday and every Friday
to teach you fresh modern British English. But until next time guys, thank you so much
for watching. My name is Tom, the chief dreamer, saying goodbye.