C1 English verbs for FLUENCY | You CAN speak like a native English speaker!

[Music] hi there this is harry and welcome to english lessons with harry yep okay so what are we going to talk to you about today well we've got some advanced verbs okay so these are specifically for those people who might want to go a little bit further with their english these verbs are typically c1 and c2 verbs and i'll explain them very detailed what they mean and how to use them and you could often and also use these if you're preparing for some exams or you want to write a very important business report whatever it might be so they're advanced verbs specifically for c1 and c2 so i'm going to give them to you one by one in fact i've got 10 of them i'll give you the explanation of the meaning and then i'll give you some examples okay here goes one scrutinize scrutinize two hinder three remunerate remunerate be careful with the pronunciation remunerate nurture number four nurture number five deteriorate deteriorate number six articulate to articulate seven to embrace embrace eight liais liais and usually with their preposition with liaise with somebody and nine accomplish to accomplish and finally 10 grasp grasp okay let's give you a sentence with the meaning and let's give you some examples scrutinize he scrutinized the face of his competition very carefully to see if there were any weaknesses he scrutinized the face of his competition very carefully to see if there were any weaknesses so when we scrutinize something we look at it really really carefully please scrutinize the document before you give it back please scrutinize your exam papers to make sure you've put in all the details before you hand in your exam paper to the examiner he scrutinized the report line by line okay so somebody looked at something in a lot of detail yeah you know we scrutinize when we study in great detail either trying to find fault or to make sure everything was perfection the gallery the art gallery had a bit of a suspicion about some painting that was hanging on their wall so they got some expert to come and check it out to make sure it was an original and the expert came and he spent many hours scrutinizing every square inch of the painting and finally came up with the conclusion that indeed it was an original okay and the gallery of course were very happy to scrutinize to hinder there was a lot of traffic on the road that hindered my progress it was a lot of traffic on the road that hindered my progress and to hinder something means to slow down not necessarily stop completely but to slow down his progress was hindered by the diversion in the high street so they were doing some road repairs and everybody had to turn off left before they got to the high street and then go and a roundabout way around the city so progress was hindered his career was hindered because he had to take two years leave of absence when he was extremely sick so he didn't progress his career as much as he had hoped so when we hinder something or we hinder somebody we slow them down or we prevent them from making progress he hurt his leg when training for the marathon and it hindered his training program quite a bit so in the end he decided to cancel his application and his entrance and would do the marathon race the following year so his training program was hindered by the injury that he picked up during training a sore leg a sprained ankle damaged ligaments whatever it might have been to hinder i just want to take a few minutes to advise you about a platform that i've come across recently which is called bazoo it's available on desktop and also as an app on your mobile phone it's really a great way to learn languages you can learn french german lots of languages and of course including english you can go in at any particular level the beginner level but i would recommend that you take the placement test and that will assess the level you are at and you can go in from a1 right up to b2 you can plan and start planning for the goals that you want to achieve you can decide whether you want to learn at the weekends and indeed you can set your targets for each day we all have at least 10 minutes a day when we can set aside for something so you can set aside 10 15 20 minutes a day that you can learn your english and of course you'll be able to practice english for grammar vocabulary reading listening and writing so let's take a quick look as to what they have available so when i look at the screen i can look at the whole list of the particular lessons i can click on it here and it'll show me the type of lessons that we have complete english english pronunciation vocabulary lessons the world in english the vocabulary you need when you're traveling and then business english as well so when we look at business english it gives us a whole list of separate lessons connected with business and when you get to that particular stage then they have lots of individual exercises what you can do there is you can complete the answers you can have the option to drop in the answers you can listen you can type and then you also have the option to record your particular answer and then you can send it to a native speaker who will correct it and get back to you so why is buzu different well it's not just about learning vocabulary it's using and learning vocabulary in context you get the opportunity and the chance to practice it in a natural way you also get the chance to answer open questions you can record those and you can send them to a teacher a native teacher who can check them for you you should try it you can start for free they also have a premium version with some additional features check out boozoo with the links in the description below and try out the bouzou premium free trial for seven days thanks buzu for sponsoring this lesson next remunerate well we remunerate means to pay somebody so a sentence would be he was remunerated for his hard work when they paid him a very substantial bonus he was remunerated for his hard work when they paid him a very substantial bonus so to remunerate somebody is to pay them and pay them appropriately for the work that they have done so from this word remunerate comes remuneration so if you're applying for the job you might ask what the salary is okay or what is the remuneration what is the payment for this particular job so to remunerate is to pay to remunerate appropriately is to pay them the going rate or the right rate of pay for that particular job to remunerate it's very formal of course you know because normally we would talk about salaries and the salary are going to be paid next nurture to nurture when we nurture something okay so let's give you the sentence nurture the female cat nurtured the litter of newborn kittens that were born last week so when the kittens are born the mother nurtures them she looks after them very very carefully and in a detailed way for many many weeks she feeds and washes them and protects them and if you go near the cat you'll know all about it because she could get quite angry and annoyed and aggressive and spit and hiss at somebody who might come near her so she nurtures her kittens she feeds them she washes them she trains them to go to the toilet because they're not able to do that themselves and until such time as they've opened their eyes and are beginning to wander about then she would relax and eventually she won't want to know them because they would be off and on their own but for the first six or eight weeks or 10 weeks she will nurture them okay so to nurture means to look after to to take care of yes we nurture our children when they are born we nurture them for many many years yeah so to nurture to look after in a very kind and gentle loving natural way deteriorate and get the pronunciation right here to deteriorate the service in the city has deteriorated since the new government took over the service in the city has deteriorated since the new government took over and what it means is to deteriorate means to get worse or to drop down in levels or to a level that is really unacceptable so if you were used to getting the bins collected monday wednesday and friday and then when the new government come in they announced that the bins are only going to be collected on a wednesday or a friday once a week so the service deteriorates it gets worse the bus journeys that used to take 20 minutes now take 30 minutes because there's so much traffic and they haven't built a wider road so as a result the service on the buses has also deteriorated there's been a lack of investment somebody's condition in hospital might deteriorate if they pick up another infection so they go into hospital for one condition and when they're in there a week or so they get another infection and the doctor says well i'm really sorry to let you know but your son or husband or wife a daughter their condition has deteriorated slightly over the last 24-36 hours we've increased the drugs that they're taking and hopefully we'll see some improvement in the next day or so so condition can deteriorate or get worse so to deteriorate means also to rot yeah so plants can deteriorate once they die trees they don't get enough water or they get some infection they can also rot from the inside or deteriorate over a period of time until eventually they fall over and they die articulate to articulate he articulates himself very well particularly when he's making presentations he's very clear and easy to understand please make sure you articulate all the words so that people can hear them very clearly and understand exactly what they mean so when you articulate something you spell it out you explain it very clearly and in an understandable way that people will know the meaning of what point you're trying to get across how did he articulate himself oh excellent he's really good on his feet he's one of those natural speakers just give him an audience gifts give him a topic a little while to prepare for it and he's really really good he's very good at articulating points he'll get the point across everybody will understand very very clearly what he means so to articulate your point to explain it to explain it properly to explain it in an understandable way and format articulate next to embrace when she came down the stairs he embraced her with a large hug he hadn't seen her for two years so to embrace means to wrap your arms around somebody pull them closely to you and give them a big squeeze hug kiss to welcome them home if it's been several years since you have seen them to embrace they embraced at the foot of the stairs they embraced each other at christmas time yeah he always embraces his kids and grandchildren when he sees them so to wrap his arms around them and give them a nice squeeze or a nice hug but we can also use embrace to when we talk about change he embraced the change meaning he meaning he welcomed the change he embraced the new management in the company he didn't literally go up and hug them but what what it meant and what it means is that he took on board the change the necessity for change he welcomed the change and he was very open to suggestions that they would make so he embraced change you can say i embrace change i love change i like change i welcome change to embrace it to liaise with somebody to liaise with somebody now this can be quite formal so the foreign department of one country decided they had to liaise with the foreign department of the other country otherwise they were not going to find out what happened to their missing citizens so the department of foreign affairs liaised with the foreign department of the british officers to find out what had happened to the missing people to liaise so to liaise is to contact but it's not just simply to say yes and no is to find out more information so in a detailed professional way so to liaise might mean initially to make a phone call send a request send an email make a formal application these are all ways in which we can liaise with somebody who is going to liaise with our new business partners in china so we need somebody who understands the language somebody who knows what they're talking about to liaise who will liaise with the solicitor in this matter this legal case is going to go on for several months and we need somebody with a legal background to liaise with them okay so to liaise a formal way of saying negotiate contact discuss ask find out what's going on to liaise next to accomplish well when we accomplish something we achieve something he accomplished four promotions in the space of seven years he was a star performer in the company so to accomplish something is to be successful to reach some goal to achieve something he's accomplished all his exams in record time so he achieved top marks right throughout his university course from his first year to his last year so he got a one degree meaning the top degree yes a one one so it couldn't be better he got honors first class honors degree in his medical course he was really really one of the top people in his year in his class or in his particular grade okay so he accomplished a lot in a short space of time meaning he achieved a lot in a short space of time what have you accomplished in your life somebody might ask you the question indeed i ask myself that question many times what have i accomplished in my life so we look back on our lives to see what we've done what we could have done better what we can do what we can do better because what we want to do is we want to accomplish something not necessarily for the financial reward not to be remunerated the word we used earlier on but for our self-satisfaction to say that we could do it that we have done it that we have achieved accomplished something okay so to accomplish and then finally grasp he wasn't able to grasp the concept i explained it to him several times before he really understood it he grasped my arm and squeezed it tightly so here we have two meanings of this particular word he wasn't able to grasp the meaning of what i said it took me six or seven times for him to understand it so meaning he wasn't able to understand to grasp to work out exactly what i was telling him it might have been too complicated i might have explained it badly but whatever it was he wasn't able to grasp the concept and then he grasped to hold tightly he grasped my arm and whispered something in my ear to grasp means to hold on tightly yeah so you grasp the bar on the bus as it's going around the corner yeah you grasp onto something to to steady yourself so you don't fall to grasps or to hold tightly or to understand a concept to grasp okay so let me give them to you one more time and remember these are c1 c2 verbs they're quite difficult so you have to give them a lot of thinking but you can use them from an exam point of view so to scrutinize to look at something in detail to scrutinize to hinder to block slow down prevent somebody from making progress remunerate to pay somebody to reward them for doing a job reward or remunerate for the right work the right pay for the right job to nurture to look after something really carefully the the cat nurtured her litter of kittens we nurture our family for many many years deteriorate his condition deteriorated over several days and finally unfortunately he died to deteriorate to go downhill articulate he is well able to articulate the point he's able to present and get the point across so that everybody understands it in a very very clear way to embrace to take somebody in your arms and embrace them to welcome them to hold them in a loving and affectionate way to embrace or to embrace change always look forward to change never close your your mind uh to any idea always look ahead to liaise to liaise with somebody or some people pronounce it liaise but to liaise to liaises to communicate with to contact to discuss to ask questions to find out in a fairly professional and top-level way particularly where diplomats from different foreign offices or embassies will liaise with their counterparty in another office in another country to accomplish what have you accomplished in your life nothing well yes we all would like to accomplish something to accomplish and then finally grasp grasp the idea grasp the concept grasp my hand and hold on for the journey okay so those are advanced english verbs at c1c2 level if you have any problems with them or you want others that we can include later on but by all means write and let me know www.englishlessonviaskype.com very happy to hear from you and as always i'm very glad you joined me i hope you enjoyed that join me again soon

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Length: 20min 53sec (1253 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 27 2022