C1 Advanced Adjectives to Enrich and Build your English Vocabulary

hello lovely students and welcome back to English with Lucy I have a beautiful video for you today I have chosen 20 of my favorite adjectives they are all really Advanced adjectives I would place them at a C1 to C2 level you're not going to hear them every single day on the streets of England but you will see them in texts books and you will hear them used by very well spoken people and if you want to become a well-spoken person then consider learning them and incorporating them into your speech I am a self-diagnosed logophile meaning I love words and I love learning new beautiful words and I'm passing on that gift to you and to help you even further I have created a free pdf that you can download it contains all of the adjectives with all of the information and there is a quiz so you can test your understanding if you would like to download it just click on the link in the description box you enter your name and your email address you sign up to my mailing list and the PDF will arrive directly in your inbox after that you will automatically receive all of my free weekly PDFs along with my news updates and course offers it's a free service and you can unsubscribe at any time also if you would like to gain a little bit of an understanding about your more level of English I've been working on a free online level test that you can take it will give you an indication as to what your level is all the way from A1 to C2 if you would like to take that level test I've left the link in the description box down there it's totally free and I hope you enjoy it your results will be sent to you by email let's get started with the lesson number one our first adjective is ambivalent ambivalent and this means having or showing mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone for example I feel ambivalent about accepting the job offer because it pays well but the work is not interesting or she has ambivalent feelings towards her ex-husband both loving him and hating him number two is capricious capricious and I find this one particularly beautiful and if you are compressed you are given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior his capricious Behavior made it difficult for his friends to keep up with his moods or the weather is capricious this time of year with sunny days followed by sudden rain showers number three great one derogatory derogatory this means showing a critical or disrespectful attitude towards someone or something his derogatory comments about women angered many people or the newspaper received complaints about a derogatory article they published about a minority group number four not such a common one but very beautiful or the same and it's actually pronounced in two ways in British English the most common version is esoteric you will also hear people saying esoteric the meaning of this one is particularly useful it means intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized interest or knowledge so if something is esoteric it's likely to exclude people the lecture on quantum mechanics was esoteric and difficult for most students to understand or the chef's recipes are esoteric and require knowledge of techniques and ingredients number five this one is common you will hear this a lot in the UK flippant flippant this means not showing a serious or respectful attitude and I like to remember this one by imagining a teenager flipping their hair and not taking something seriously they're being flippant the politicians flippant comments about the pandemic angered many people or your flippant attitude towards your studies led to these poor grades next I think this one speaks for itself it kind of shows its definition in the word grandiose this means impressive or magnificent in appearance or style but often lacking in substance something can look amazing but be impractical or not fit for purpose this building is grandiose but impractical for our current needs or your brother is always making these grandiose promises that he never follows through on next I love this one it rolls off the tongue histrionic histrionic this means overly theatrical or melodramatic in character or style that comes off as insincere her histrionic reaction to the news made her friends doubt her sincerity or their histrionic speech Around clean energy failed to persuade the audience at the climate change rally next incongruous in Congress this means strange and not suitable in a particular situation it doesn't keep with the surroundings or other aspects of something the modern art sculpture looked incongruous in the historic town square or the professor's joke seemed incongruous with the seriousness of his lecture another beautiful one I know they're all beautiful but I really like this one juxtaposed juxtaposed this means put together or put near each other for contrast and comparison the juxtaposed paintings showed the contrast between the bright colors of one and the Dark Shades of the other the gallery featured a series of juxtaposed images creating a thought-provoking and dynamic composition next laudable lordable and this means deserving praise and Commendation one of his less laudable characteristics not worthy of Praise was his dark sense of humor or her decisions may be open to debate but her manner of speaking is laudable next Mercurial Mercurial this means often changing in a way that is unexpected the new series we're watching is entertaining but the constant Mercurial changes in tone are an emotional rollercoaster or the stock market is often described as Mercurial with rapid fluctuations in value next one I love and I must point out the difference between British and American pronunciation nonchalant nonchalant or an American English nonchalant this means behaving in a calm or relaxed way and not giving the impression that you're worried it's similar to flippant but it's not as disrespectful unless used in the right context Taylor's mother was nonchalant about her daughter's recent rise to fame or the student's nonchalant response to her failing grade showed a lack of concern for her future next we have pernicious pernicious this means having a harmful effect especially in a very gradual or subtle way the company's pernicious practices harmed the local environment or the pernicious effect of advertising to children is a problem that we can no longer ignore next quixotic quixotic it's like a mixture of quick and exotic this means exceedingly idealistic unrealistic and impractical here's quixotic dream of traveling the world with no money seemed impossible to achieve or she ran a quixotic campaign against her rival but came out ahead next we have resplendent resplendent this is often used with with or in it means attractive and impressive through being richly colorful the sunset over the ocean was resplendent with colors of orange and pink or resplendent in white and gold she walked down the aisle on the arm of her father do you see how we used it with both with and in next love this one I know I say that about everyone but I just I genuinely love these words subservient subservient this means prepared to obey others without question unquestioningly it's often used in a negative way because if someone is subservient they're often easily exploited for example the assistant's subservient attitude towards her boss led to exploitation or Gloria refused to give up her career and accept a traditional subservient role next we have supercilious supercilious that one's so fun to say if you're super silliest you behave or look as though you think you are superior to others his supercilious demeanor towards his audience was met with disapproval or her writing often has a supercilious tone which makes it hard to connect with tenacious do you remember the band Tenacious D they recognized it as a great word and a great word it is tenacious this means keeping or tending to keep a firm hold of something or not giving up easily or being really determined her tenacious grip on the Rope allowed her to climb the Steep Cliff or although he experienced many setbacks he remained tenacious in his pursuit of becoming an MP next don't be fooled by the first letter you we pronounce it with a sound ubiquitous ubiquitous this means very common or found everywhere smartphones have become ubiquitous in modern society or the company's logo was ubiquitous on billboards throughout the city very common now we have vicarious vicarious although in American English they're more inclined to say vicarious British English vicarious this one we use in front of a noun it means experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person you'll often hear us saying I'm living vicariously through you I'm living through your experiences he experienced a sense of vicarious Nostalgia when he listened to his parents stories about their youth he couldn't actually experience it he had to experience it by imagining what it would be like or watching action films allows people to experience vicarious Thrills and excitement Thrills and excitement through other people right that's it for today's lesson I hope you enjoyed it I hope if you learned something don't forget to download the free pdf the link is just down there there's a quiz as well so you can test that you really know what these words mean because this was quite a challenging Advanced video I also have that Free level test that I mentioned the link is down there don't forget to connect with me on all of my social media I've got my Instagram I've got my Facebook I've also got my website English with lucy.com where I've got lots of other lessons I've also got my free phonemic chart where you can click on phonemes and words containing those phonemes and hear me pronounce them it's really cool and I've also got all of my English courses we've got our B1 program B2 program the C1 is coming out in May I can't wait that's actually a C1 slash two because we've included a lot of C2 level grammar and vocabulary and pronunciation in there I've also just launched my beautiful British English pronunciation program and we've got loads of challenges if you want to focus on something really specific like idioms phrasal verbs or grammar that is Enough from me I will see you soon for another lesson foreign [Music] [Music]

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Length: 12min 41sec (761 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 05 2023