How to TRANSITION to ADVANCED English level vocabulary lesson

hello everyone and welcome back to

english with lucy today i’m going to

show you how to upgrade your english and

take it to the next level and we’re just

going to echo off the video that i made

a couple of weeks ago about the words

that you should not use and the

alternatives that you can use if you

haven’t seen that yet click on the card

I highly recommend you do I received so

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vocabulary and replace boring words with

interesting words so that is what we’re

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the lesson okay so in a previous video I

spoke about the words that you should

never use in English and I want to

expand on that today I’m going to talk

about some common words that could be

considered quite boring and some

alternatives that you can use basically

this is just a really jam-packed

jam-packed means it’s really really full

a really jam-packed vocabulary video so

get your notepads out you’re going to

want to take notes

now the first word is smart I want to

mention this word because in British

English it means something slightly

different than in American English in

American English smart refers to

intelligence if somebody is smart they

are intelligent in British English it’s

not so clear you have to add a bit of

context because if I say someone is

smart you would think that they are well

dressed or well turned out if I say he’s

a very smart man I’m referring to the

way he looks not the way he thinks so

I’m going to give you some alternative

words for smart and intelligent that you

can use in everyday English some of the

alternatives need a bit more explanation

because they mean something slightly

different they’re not just synonyms so

instead of saying smart we can say

knowledgable somebody who has a lot of

knowledge we can say brilliant

now you might know brilliant as being

really really good or great that’s

brilliant

but if you describe a person as

brilliant it can mean that they’re

really really clever I think you would

describe Dumbledore as brilliant because

he

he was just this genius I always like to

get in a Harry Potter reference another

words immolated brilliant is gifted if

somebody is gifted it means they are

very skilled in a particular area often

referring to their intelligence when I

was at school there was a special list

that you could be on that was called the

gifted and talented list and it was a

list of students that were very talented

or very intelligent and they the people

on the list got to go off and do special

activities now I think of that I think

that’s that is dreadful that’s just

dreadful

yeah I hope that doesn’t occur anymore

another word we can use is witty and

witty

it means funny and intelligent so

someone who’s funny might make a lot of

jokes but they’re not particularly

intelligent jokes and somebody witty

makes a lot of very intelligent jokes

they play with the language they use

historical facts somebody who I think is

very witty is Stephen Fry I always

mention Stephen Fry and Harry Potter in

my videos you can tell what I watch in

my spare time so if somebody says

something very intelligent and very

funny you can say that’s very witty of

you it’s a lovely word along the same

lines quick-witted this means that

somebody can come up with an intelligent

or funny response very very quickly I on

the other hand take a little bit longer

to process information another lovely

word is sharp

if someone’s sharp they’re quick they’re

intelligent it’s hard to trick them

because they spot everything then we

have wise and wise tends to mean that

you are intelligent due to experience

you’ve got a lot of experience you can

refer to your experience you’re wise we

often refer to older intelligent people

as wise we’ve also got brainy and this

kind of refers to somebody who’s quite

studious somebody who lives a very

academic life I wouldn’t say it’s the

biggest compliment well it is a

compliment to be called brainy because

you’re being told that you’re

intelligent but I think this word can be

used with a negative undertone it sort

of in the same way as geek or nerd

somebody who studies a lot and maybe

doesn’t have such a big social

nothing wrong with that but be careful

who you use it with because you could

offend them now that’s enough of these

smart alternatives as with all of these

topics please do contribute your ideas

in the comments section below I was so

amazed at your contributions in my words

you should not say video you guys are

smart

oh no that’s what we were meant to not

say all right let’s have a look at a

very common word now good good is a good

word good is a good word it’s a good

word I can’t take that away from the

word good however there are better words

I remember when I was teaching students

I used to get so like self-conscious of

repeating the word good over and over

again after every answer good good good

very good so I had to come up with

alternatives and I ended up just saying

wonderful the whole time and then my

students used to predict what was gonna

say and it’s wonderful and I was about

to say it and it was so embarrassing but

I’m gonna give you some really good

alternatives to good right now see it’s

not good if you repeat it all over and

over again oh my god I think ok let’s

just get on with this one of my favorite

ones is marvelous Oh

isn’t marvelous just such a lovely word

marvelous it makes you sound really

quite posh and well-spoken I would use

it at every opportunity another one

which I love seeing in my comments

section because I know that you guys

have done your research on alternatives

for good is superb and this is another

posh word this meal is superb not super

it’s got to be on the end superb and it

just means the absolute best another

word is exquisite and this is another

word for very very good and we often use

it to describe food or drink a waiter

comes over to your table how is the wine

Oh exquisite another that I really like

is delightful

if something’s delightful it gives you a

lot of delight which means happiness the

show

was absolutely delightful it was very

happy it was very warm it was very good

terrific be careful on the pronunciation

of this one it’s not terrific it’s

terrific

make sure you don’t confuse this with

terror which means something’s very

scary terrific is a very very positive

word another one is splendid if

something is splendid it’s top-notch

it’s absolutely excellent I think

splendid and marvellous and my favorites

in this list but what if something is

really bad

well don’t worry I’ve got a list for you

now there’s an unwritten rule in English

if you use a posh word meaning bad you

have to show absolute disgust whilst

using these words so we have atrocious

we also have obscene obscene we have

dreadful dreadful I hope you’re all

practicing at home practicing you’re

disgusted faces disgusting disgusting

despicable absolutely despicable vile

oh that’s when I use a lot vile that is

absolutely vile nasty look nasty evil

just pure evil brutal you can have a

brutal murder which is the worst of the

worst lots of blood and gore and

possibly the best one abhorrent

abhorrent if you use that in an essay

I’m sure it will go down well if used in

the right context because it’s not such

a common word but it’s a really

effective one now how about some

alternatives for verbs

what about ran or to run you could say

someone jogged which is a light run you

could say somebody sped or they sped off

that means they went at quite a pace

they went quickly the same for bolted

and darted and if you use off darted off

bolted off sped off it means that they

are going away from you

scurried that’s running quickly with

little for

steps gallop the same but with big

footsteps like a horse raced dashed both

really quick and sprinted more like

Usain Bolt possibly the fastest of them

all and then on the other hand we have

alternatives for walked to walk you

could saunter which is just kind of

aimlessly walk saunter along or you

could March which is to walk

meaningfully to trudge somewhere that’s

to kind of drag your feet like you don’t

want to go to stagger how you might walk

after you’ve had a drink you’re not

picking up your feet you might trip over

you can amble or you can stroll and

that’s just a leisurely walk I do

actually say I’m just going out for a

stroll which just means an aimless walk

with no objective I’m just enjoying

being outside for a minute another verb

we can find alternatives for is to see

you can say you glimpsed something which

means you just got a really quick look

equally you can say you glanced at

something and you must use it with the

preposition at to glance that I glanced

at her answers and saw that she’d got

them all wrong to gaze or to gaze at

someone this is to look at something for

a very long time

it almost implies to look lovingly at

something if I say he gazed into her

eyes it means he looked lovingly or

looked for a long time into her eyes I’m

gazing into the camera lens right now

all of you students because I love you

to spot you can spot something that

means you you’ve seen something or

you’ve noticed it to notice it means you

found something that you weren’t

necessarily looking for you can examine

something which is to study it long and

hard to really look at the details and

you can also eye something and to eye

something is to really study move your

eyes all along it and you if you ice

someone up it means you’re almost

looking at them flirtatiously you’re

really looking at their body and seeing

what they’re like it’s not necessarily a

positive thing and the last topic is

alternatives for saying scared scared is

a perfectly fine word but if you’re

writing about something

particularly scary and then you can find

yourself repeating it over and over

again so here are some alternatives one

you might know already is afraid you are

scared you are afraid it’s pretty much

the same thing the same goes for

frightened to be frightened one that’s

slightly different is startled and this

means that something’s made you jump

it’s shocked you in the moment maybe

somebody has just appeared and you go oh

and you’ve been startled the same goes

for spooked to spook someone to suddenly

make them scared now what if you are

really really scared you might be

petrified absolutely petrified or

terrified not to be confused with

terrific after a scare you could be

really shaken and that means that you

know you don’t feel right this is sort

of the aftershock of a scare to be

anxious you could be really nervous and

anxious you could also be horrified or

good word coming here aghast aghast and

this is just to be filled with fear and

shock right that is it for today’s

lesson I really hope you enjoyed it I

really enjoyed making it if you would

like more lessons like this one please

comment down below because I always use

your requests as my inspiration for

future videos that’s why I made this one

because you guys seem to like the other

one so much and there are loads more

alternatives that I can give you and I

think it’s just so much nicer than

reading them from a page having somebody

explain them to you don’t forget to

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for another lesson my previous video I

spoke I

English teacher alright that’s enough of

these smart words with all of these

topics I would love for you to

contribute in the description box not in

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don’t touch my description box that’s

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