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0:00Vanessa:
Are you ready to level up your English vocabulary?
0:03I mean, really level up your vocabulary? Well,
you're in the right place. Today, you are going
0:09to learn 25 advanced English expressions that are
used in daily life conversation. Hi, I'm Vanessa
0:19from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com and like always
I have created a free PDF worksheet with all 25 of
0:27these important phrases, definitions, and sample
sentences. Plus, at the bottom of the worksheet is
0:35a quiz. Test yourself and see if you have really
learned these 25 advanced phrases. You can click
0:42on the link in the description to download this
free PDF worksheet today. It is my gift to you.
0:48If you've been learning English with me here
on this channel for a while, you know that I
0:53teach you real-life vocabulary, words and
phrases that we really use in daily life.
1:00But sometimes it's fun to level up your daily
life vocabulary and make those phrases advanced.
1:07So I specifically chose expressions today
that are advanced. This means at the C1 level,
1:16but also are absolutely used in daily
life. So don't be afraid to use these
1:21in your natural conversations. You don't
need to save these only for the workplace
1:27or an academic situation. You can use these in
daily life. All right, let's get started. To
1:33accumulate. Look at this sentence and I want you
to kind of guess what you think it means. Wow,
1:40a lot of snow accumulated overnight. What do you
think that means? It means to grow or increase.
1:48As I teach you all 25 of these phrases, I'm
going to be giving you the sample sentence
1:53first because I want you to use all of the ideas
and knowledge already in your mind about English
2:00to guess the definition. If I just give you
the definition, it's okay, but I would like
2:06you to try to guess the definition first. Take the
sample sentence and use it to your best knowledge.
2:12Let's go on to the second one. Phrase number
two is adjustment. Could you help me with my
2:18bike? I think it needs an adjustment. It's
making a strange noise. This is the exact
2:24question that I asked my neighbor who is a
bike expert, and he helped me and the noise
2:28stopped. So what is an adjustment? It's simply
a change. Something needs to change so that it
2:36stops making that noise. Phrase number three
is availability. Notice that the T at the end
2:43of this word is pronounced like a D in American
English. Availability. This is commonly used in
2:51my daily life. Let me check my availability
before I commit. Check my availability.
2:59This simply means, am I free? Do I have any
time that I can commit to this activity? Let
3:05me check my availability. Advanced phrase
number four is benchmark. I love this one.
3:12Take a look at this sample sentence. I don't
always eat five different vegetables every day,
3:17but it's a good benchmark number. Here, the
word benchmark is a standard. It's recommended
3:25to eat at least five different vegetables each
day. Do I do this every day successfully? No,
3:32but it's a good benchmark. I think about
this occasionally. Oh, maybe I could try a
3:37different vegetable today in order to reach that
benchmark. Advanced phrase number five is bind,
3:44but I would like to expand that to use
a full phrase to put someone in a bind.
3:50Take a look at this strict project deadline
has really put me in a bind. I don't know if
3:58I'm going to be able to meet it. Do you think
that the project deadline is a good deadline?
4:06No. It has put me in a bind. This means it has
wrapped me tightly, but in a figurative way.
4:13So it has put me in a difficult situation.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to do
4:18a good job and also make the deadline. This
deadline has put me in a bind. I have to do
4:25less quality work in order to meet the deadline.
Advanced phrase number six is a breakthrough.
4:34Take a look at this sentence. This job might
be the breakthrough that I was hoping for. Do
4:41you get the idea here that I'm in a bind and then
I'm hoping that this job will be the breakthrough?
4:49This job will be exactly what I was hoping for
to help me advance in my career. Oftentimes,
4:56we use this when there is a discovery. So we might
say the vaccine for polio was a great breakthrough
5:04in medicine. It helped to solve a big problem
with just this medication. Advanced phrase number
5:12seven is capability. To wear a cape? No. Take a
look at this. Even though my daughter is young,
5:20she has the capability of feeding herself
with a spoon. Sometimes it is quite messy,
5:26but she does have this capability. And what does
capability mean? Well, it means ability. It is
5:33another advanced and fun way to say ability.
My daughter has the ability to feed herself
5:39or the capability to feed herself. Just grow
your vocabulary step by step with this word.
5:46Advanced phrase number eight is circulate.
This is a good one for eight. Circulate.
5:53What if I said to you, the news circulated
through our neighborhood like lightning?
6:00We get the idea that all the neighbors are
talking so quickly that the news is making its
6:09way through the neighborhood, and that's the
idea with this word. Circulate means just to
6:14freely pass around. So if your neighbors like
to talk, well I imagine news, or at least the
6:21idea of news circulates quite quickly through
your neighborhood. Advanced phrase number nine
6:27is to collaborate. I collaborated with over 17
amazing YouTube English teachers to make this
6:35lesson for you. It's true. To collaborate means
to work together. Sometimes collaboration is a
6:43beautiful thing, such as this wonderful lesson
and sometimes collaborating can be really tough.
6:48Maybe your interests or your values are not
aligned, but usually collaboration provides
6:55a better solution in the end. Make sure you
check out that lesson to learn what all these
7:0117 teachers had to say about how to speak
better English. It's an awesome video with
7:07awesome teachers. Advanced phrase number 10 is
to coordinate. Notice the pronunciation of this
7:13word. To coordinate. Coordinate. There are two
Os and they are slightly pronounced differently.
7:22To coordinate. Coor. Coor. Coordinate. So
I often say this phrase, "Man, it is hard
7:29to coordinate schedules with some of my friends
who have kids. Your kid's doing this at this time,
7:36my kid's doing this at this time. Oh, then one kid
is sick. Oh, then another kid is sick. It is hard
7:40to coordinate our schedules." And coordinate
means to align something, usually a schedule.
7:47We are coordinating a time to be able to see
each other, and sometimes that's not so easy.
7:52Advanced phrase number 11 is to dedicate. Recently
my city Asheville was hit by a terrible hurricane,
8:00Hurricane Helene, and we can use this expression
to talk about what happened. Thousands of
8:07volunteers dedicated their time to help people in
need. It's true. There were thousands of people
8:15in the city around the country, even from Canada.
In fact, there were Canadian workers who helped
8:22to fix my electricity. There were people from
everywhere who dedicated their time to help those
8:29in need. This is an important thing to see when
you're going through a hard time. Look for all
8:34the good that's being done. And dedicate here just
means to give all your time and all your energy.
8:40So thank you to everyone who dedicates their
time and energy helping other people in need.
8:46Advanced phrase number 12 is to delegate. This is
one of my favorite things to do. I try to delegate
8:54certain chores to my kids. This means that I don't
do all the chores. I don't do every single dish,
9:01all the laundry, all the cleaning up,
all the organizing. No. I do a lot,
9:05but I try to delegate those chores to my
children. What's this mean? It means to
9:12give tasks to other people. So my kids help to
clean up at the end of the day. They put their
9:18dishes in the sink. Sometimes they help to fold
laundry or they help to clean the dishes. I am
9:24trying to teach them those skills, but it's also
helpful for me to delegate those tasks. Advanced
9:31phrase number 13 sounds similar to delegate,
but it's not. It is designate. Designate.
9:40Look at this sentence. I designated a certain
amount of money for charity. I think it's a
9:47beautiful thing when you can use money for
what you need, you can use money to save,
9:52and you can use money to give. So I designated
this amount of money to give to a charity. Can
10:00you guess what that means? It just means that
I chose to set aside this amount of money for
10:07a specific purpose. I designated, I chose
for that amount of money to go to a charity.
10:14Advanced phrase number 14 is efficient. I try
to be extremely efficient when I work, but do
10:20you know what is not efficient? Public transport
in the US is not efficient. If you visit the US,
10:29you usually need to rent a car. It's just the way
things are. So what's this word mean? Efficient
10:36means it works quickly, effectively. Well, I try
to work quickly and effectively and efficiently,
10:43but public transportation in the US,
not quick, not efficient, not the best.
10:50Advanced phrase number 15 is eligible. Eligible.
If you get a new job, the boss or the person
11:00giving you the details of the job might
tell you, "After you've worked for this
11:05company for one year, you become eligible for some
benefits." Or, "after you've signed this paper,
11:14you become eligible for certain benefits." What
does eligible mean? It means you have the right to
11:21get those benefits. You cannot have those benefits
taken away from you if you sign that paper. Well,
11:28you have the right to get those benefits.
You are eligible to get them. Advanced phrase
11:33number 16 is endeavor. Endeavor. Take a look
at this sentence. Wow, what a huge endeavor.
11:42You are trying to climb that mountain in one
day. Usually it takes three days. What a huge
11:49endeavor. Usually we use the word endeavor
with the word huge. It's just a phrase that
11:55goes together. You could say it's a big endeavor,
but huge is extremely commonly used with endeavor.
12:01And it just means a challenging task or project.
What a huge endeavor to try to climb that mountain
12:07in just one day. Good luck. Advanced phrase
number 17 is frustration. Frustration. We
12:16often use this with a full phrase, I could sense
his frustration. I can sense your frustration.
12:26If I said to my child, "Wow, I can really
sense your frustration with those stickers."
12:33My four-year-old son tries to take stickers
off of a sticker book and sometimes it's hard
12:39for little fingers to get stickers off. So he
goes, "Oh, I can't get it. What am I doing?
12:45Mommy." He gets frustrated about it. So I could
use this phrase, "Wow, I can really sense your
12:51frustration with those stickers. It's something
that makes you annoyed or angry or frustrated."
13:00Advanced phrase number 18 is functional.
Functional. These shoes are really pretty,
13:07but they aren't functional
for walking long distances.
13:12Really nowadays, as a mom, all my shoes are
functional. I don't have any fancy shoes
13:18because I just need functional shoes nowadays.
What's functional mean? Well, it means that
13:25something works easily or smoothly. You get
the sense that functional shoes are sneakers,
13:33tennis shoes, flat shoes, not high heels, nothing
uncomfortable. Functional shoes. Advanced phrase
13:41number 19 is glimpse. We often use the full
phrase to catch a glimpse. If you're walking
13:51past a mirror and you don't realize that there's
a mirror there, you might be walking and, "Oh,
13:56I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and
it surprised me." This can be a surprising thing,
14:03right? So you get the idea that a glimpse
means to look, but it's a quick look. So to
14:09catch a glimpse, "Oh, it's just a quick look.
I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror."
14:15Advanced phrase number 20 is generic. Generic.
This is usually not a positive phrase. Take a
14:24look at this. The hotel room had a lot of generic
decorations. This means nothing personalized,
14:33nothing unique. Generic just means simple, plain,
the same as everything else. Now the one time
14:42when generic is a good thing is with medicine.
So if you go to a pharmacy in the US, you can
14:49watch my video here where I show you an American
pharmacy, including some important vocabulary,
14:54you will often see two different versions of
medicine. You'll see the brand name version and
15:01what we call a generic version. Usually they have
the exact same ingredients, but one is just from
15:08that store. It's not this fancy brand name, and
it's usually a lot cheaper than the brand name.
15:15So for me, I often buy a generic medication
because it's cheaper and it's the same thing.
15:21Advanced phrase number 21 is one that I
unfortunately use often, it is harmony,
15:27but I often use this by saying, "Can we just have
some peace and harmony in here for five minutes?"
15:35When you have three kids, if it's a rainy day
and everyone is stuck inside, you can imagine
15:42it gets loud, sometimes kids start to fight
with each other more often than if they were
15:47outside. Harmony means peace, working together
so smoothly and easily. So I wish as a mom, can
15:56we just have some peace and harmony in here for
five minutes. That would be the dream. Advanced
16:03phrase number 22. We're almost at the end here. We
only have 25 today. Advanced phrase number 22 is
16:10hierarchy. Notice the pronunciation here. Higher,
like higher and lower. Hierarchy. With a K sound.
16:20Hierarchy. You might say "It takes a long time for
stuff to get done in the government because of the
16:27complicated hierarchy. No one is allowed to make
a decision for themselves. Instead, they have to
16:33ask their boss, who has to ask their boss, who has
to ask their boss, and their boss and their boss."
16:37And ugh, it takes forever to get things done
when there is a complicated hierarchy. And
16:43what's a hierarchy? Well, it's just a system
of importance, usually with people. It could
16:48be a hierarchy of animals, possibly a
hierarchy of events. But usually this
16:53is with people where you have to ask a lot
of people in order to get anything done.
16:59Advanced phrase number 23 is immense.
When we had Hurricane Helene hit my city,
17:07the damage from the storm was immense. In fact,
a lot of rescue workers said that this was the
17:15worst damage that they had ever seen in their
entire career. It's really difficult when you
17:22have a natural disaster in the mountains. It's
hard to reach people. It's hard to help people.
17:27The damage is immense. Can you guess what that
word means? It means huge, unimaginable. Immense.
17:36Now I used it in a negative way. The damage
was immense. But you can also use this in
17:41a positive way. We might say that I love my
husband immensely. This means I have a huge
17:49amount of love, and that's a positive thing,
right? So we could use this in a negative or
17:54a positive way. Advanced phrase number 24.
This is our second to last advanced phrase.
18:00It is interact. Interact. I want to let
you know that when we're speaking quickly,
18:06we often cut out that first T and it sounds
like interact, interact, interact. That T is
18:13just gone. It's on vacation somewhere, having a
good old time. It's not in this word. Interact.
18:18So let me give you a sample sentence. My
kids loved interacting with the exhibits
18:23in the museum. Interacting with the exhibits in
the museum. Did you hear how I cut out that T?
18:29My kids loved interacting with the exhibits
in the museum. And what's this mean? It means
18:35that you're communicating or reacting
to something around you. A lot of times,
18:40children's museums will have things
that you can touch or play with or move,
18:44and you can learn different concepts or experience
different things by interacting with the different
18:50exhibits in the museum. And drum roll, the
25th and final advanced English expression for
18:58today is landmark. Landmark. When there was the
hurricane in my city, one of the biggest landmarks
19:09in a little town, this beautiful red water wheel
got damaged. In fact, it got immensely damaged,
19:18we could say. The water coming from the
stream became immense and it got damaged.
19:26This landmark is something that people often
think of when they think of this little town.
19:33So we can use the word landmark to talk about
an object that kind of serves as a guide. When
19:38we think of Paris, what's the landmark?
The Eiffel Tower. When you think of Egypt,
19:45what do you think of? The pyramids. Those
are landmarks in those countries. Hopefully
19:51they'll be able to repair this cute water wheel
that is the landmark of the little town. Well,
19:57congratulations. You just learned 25 advanced
C1 level English expressions. Don't forget to
20:06download the free PDF worksheet. There's a link
in the description. When you download that free
20:11PDF worksheet, you will get each of these
advanced expressions, definitions, multiple
20:17sample sentences, and you can answer the quiz
to see if you can really remember these phrases.
20:25Because it's great to watch this video,
but you need to remember them, right?
20:29So if you want to remember them, I
highly recommend downloading the PDF,
20:33reviewing the phrases, and taking the
quiz. Test yourself. You can click on
20:38the link in the description to download
that free PDF worksheet today. Well,
20:41thank you so much for learning English with me,
and I'll see you again next Friday for a new
20:46lesson here on my YouTube channel. Bye.
But wait, do you want more? I recommend
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