- Today I am going to
talk to you about some advanced verbs to help you sound smarter. That's coming up. Welcome to today's lesson. It is a super, awesome,
amazing vocabulary lesson because I'm going to teach
you 10 different verbs to help you sound smarter.
And I say that they help you sound smarter because
these are more advanced verbs, these are advanced vocabulary words that are very specific, very precise that you can use in certain situations so that you can perfectly
express your ideas, thoughts and opinions and say
exactly what you want to say. These verbs are going to
help you do just that. Now I'm not only going to
tell the verb and the meaning but I'm also going to
give you the pronunciation as well as an example
sentence so that you can see how these words are used in context. That's very important. So without further ado, let's begin. The first word is to admonish and admonish has three
syllables and the stress is on that second syllable, mon, Admonish. And this is a verb that we
use with a direct object, to admonish someone, usually
for doing something wrong because what it means
is to counsel or advise against something, it's
kind of like you're scolding somebody in a way but
not because you are super angry and they did
something really terrible but they just did something
wrong and it's not correct, maybe it was a little rude. - You just interrupted me
again while I was admonishing you for interrupting me. - Have you ever been
admonished for doing something? I definitely have been admonished for many things in my life. The next wonderful verb is to advocate. This word has three
syllables and the stress is on that first syllable, advocate and to advocate means
to show strong support for something, it could
be a support for a policy, it could be support for an issue and you advocate for it. We often use it with the preposition for, you advocate for something
when you are really passionate about something,
you really, really really believe in it and you want to advocate for this thing. The next verb is to bemoan and
this verb has two syllables and the stress is on that
second syllable, mohn, bemoan. You may also notice that
word in that second syllable, which kind of shares a
similar meaning to the verb, to bemoan, which means you
are basically expressing that you are upset, you are
distressed about something. It's kind of like you're
complaining and you might bemoan a situation that you are in. You might bemoan someone's
decision if you disagree with it and you don't like
it, you're not very happy with something that happened
and you bemoan the situation. The next verb is compel. This word has two syllables
and the stress is on that second syllable, compel
and what it means is to, to force or drive or maybe
even encourage somebody to do something, some course of action, to do something that you want them to do, you really want to convince
them to do something, sometimes it can be done by force, you compel someone to do
something because maybe you're threatening them
in some way, shape or form and you are compelling them to
do what you want them to do. - The power of Chrysler compels you. - But you're really just
trying to get somebody to do this thing, to compel
someone to do something. The next verb is a good
one, embezzle, to embezzle. This verb has three syllables
and the stress is on that second syllable, embezzle. Embezzle and what it means
is to take money or maybe even property but most
of the time we're talking about money and to do
it in a fraudulent way. People are creating some false
records, some false receipts and they are taking that
extra money and stealing it and they are embezzling the money. You could embezzle money from a company, you can embezzle money from a bank. - Lloyd Gross is a fictional salesman we invented
to, how do I put this, steal from the company, embezzle. To commit fraud. - I just got fired from Sweetems. - Because you were embezzling? - Now if you do this,
it's a crime so it is not a good verb, it's not a verb that you want to be associated with. The next verb is extol, to extol. This word has two syllables and the stress is on that second syllable, extol. And what it means is to praise highly, to give a lot of high praise,
to someone or to something. Often times you might extol
someone during a eulogy if there is a funeral and
a person is giving a eulogy and talking about the
person that has passed away, you want to talk about
all of the good things that this person did, you want
to give them a lot of praise and you would extol this person. You can also use it talking
about places or things, if you really just want to
speak highly of it, extol. Next is the verb impugn, to impugn. This word has two syllables and the stress is on that second syllable, impugn. And what it means is to claim
that something is false, to say that, to challenge it
and say that's it's not true and kind of cast doubt upon this situation or even this person. - So because of a few bad
apples, you're gonna impugn an entire continent? - I'm impugning a continent. - A lot of times you might hear
it with the word character, to impugn someone's character. Basically saying that
this person should not be believed, that they say
things that are false, they're dishonest and
you're trying to cast doubt over the things that this
person is talking about when you impugn someone's character. - Mr. Chairman, if she's
going to impugn his character while he's speaking. - It's not a good verb,
it's not something that we should try to do
but this is a situation that happens and it's a
great way to describe it. To impugn someone or something. Another great verb, which is one of my favorites is obfuscate. This verb has three syllables
and the stress is on that first syllable, obfuscate. And what it means to obfuscate something is to confuse or bewilder
and just try to create a confusing situation so
that it's really difficult to understand so you
might hear it being used, they want to obfuscate a
situation, they want to obfuscate an issue, they want to obfuscate a policy, it happens a lot I think
in politics when you're trying to get people to believe
one thing or another thing and some people try to
obfuscate certain issues. The next verb is placate. This word has two syllables and the stress is on that first syllable, placate. And what it means is to
appease by giving something up, you're giving up some concession in order to try and get something that you want, to placate someone. For example, if somebody
is upset with you, you did something wrong, you
will do something for this person, you'll give
something up, you are trying to placate them in order
for this person to forgive you, to be okay with
it and just to move on, to placate someone. Another great verb, repudiate. This verb has four
syllables and the stress is on that second syllable, repudiate. And this means to reject
something, to reject it with disapproval because
there's no authority in this thing that people
are trying to say or do. To repudiate someone or you
could repudiate something. So for example at work
if you are the manager and you have employees
and they make a request and you could reject it and say no, I don't like it, this is a terrible idea, you would repudiate this. - Senator Eleanor, Prenses
Shaw, does it bother you at all your son
repudiates so many of your more controversial policies? - No. - It was refused, rejected,
rebuffed, repudiated. - It's kind of a
confrontational word because if you repudiate something
then you're really letting the other person
know that you're a bit unhappy, that you don't
like this and you are rejecting it, you repudiate it. So right now I would like
to advocate for you to write us a comment and let
us know an English word that you have recently learned. It could be any word, a
noun, an adjective, a verb. Just let us know, we love hearing from you in the comments. If you don't write us a
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