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how to expand your vocabulary how to
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expand your academic vocabulary for for
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IELTS hi there my name is Ben
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Worthington and in this practical
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tutorial we are going to look at
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formulas and methods to expand your
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vocabulary now knowledge of these
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incredibly useful for you because when
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you were learning English when you
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started learning English you probably
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stumbled uh stumbled AC cross certain
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sort of like rules and formulas and then
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you probably like stum across and like
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ah okay if I add IO n to the word it
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becomes another it becomes the noun or
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if I add it becomes the gerand or if I
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add l y it be it forms the
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adverb from precise to
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precisely and that's exactly what what
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we're going to cover today we're going
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to look at using these rules and we're
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going to apply it more to expanding your
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vocabulary so you don't have to stumble
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across it you can actually hear it and
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then start applying it because for
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example if you know one word and then uh
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the root of the word especially and if
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you know that you can add pre or u n or
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ly to the end now you've just expanded
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your use of that word three times so
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you've tripled your vocabulary by using
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the formula by using the rule not by
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memorization okay and this will give you
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such a more natural feel for the
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language so my name is Ben Worthington
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I've been doing I Els teaching I els for
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too long for very long time now and I'll
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be honest with you some days I'm just
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like ah I again again and then most of
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the other days I'm like let's go let's
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do this especially with my private
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students we're having a blast at the
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moment uh yeah so uh I set up this site
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a long time ago to help students with
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the ILS exam and it's all designed for
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help you reach your goal let's jump into
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it expanding your vocabulary is
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incredibly important for the
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exam it not only improves your
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comprehension skills but it enhances
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your ability to express complex ideas
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and this is insanely important
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especially for the speaking where you're
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going to be asked pretty much the same
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question especially if you're going for
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seven eight or nine you're going to be
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asked the same question a few times but
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in different ways so the examin is
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really testing it's like okay I heard
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the student talk about this but can they
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say the same thing again in a different
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way like how good really is their
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vocabulary and this is exactly what this
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tutorial is going to help you with and
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also we built the tutorial around the
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academic word list the academic word
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list is a list of the most common words
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found in academic journals and
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reports and because we're writing in
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academic writing uh because we are uh we
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should be writing academically we should
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be using this vocabulary let's have a
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look so we're going to start
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off by understanding the root of the
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word then we're going to look at
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prefixes and suffixes and then we're
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going to look at reusing words in the
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other forms and then we're going to go
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into some 10 practical examples and
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demonstrations so it's insanely valuable
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tutorial now let's have a look at the
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root of a word this means the root is
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the word in its most basic form it
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carries the most fundamental meaning now
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this is easier for students uh who are
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French Spanish Italian or one of
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Portuguese or Romanian the other romance
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languages because a lot of these words
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of in English come from uh their
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language Latin or the the mother of
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their language which is
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Latin thanks to the Romans Anyway by
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recognizing these roots you can often
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deduce the meanings of unfamiliar words
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especially when you've got knowledge of
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the prefixes or suffixes for
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example if you know the word
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act now you can deduce what the word
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actor means the actor Brad Pit you can
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deduce what the word action means you
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can deduce what the word activate means
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and this all starts to become unlocked
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the deeper you get into the language
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this is why when we're learning a
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language we've got the typical S curve
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and it's at the highest you know we have
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a slow start it's difficult it's tedious
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we get very little Improvement and then
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we hit a point where we're just
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accelerating we're improving um we're
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going faster and then we get around
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usually a B2 level B seven level
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and it's difficult to improve like an
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hour studying the language reduce
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.1% Improvement whereas previously an
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hour in the language studying the
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language could have resulted in I don't
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know a 2% Improvement anyway I got
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distracted I'm sorry let's go on let's
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have a look at the most common prefixes
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and suffixes and the Origins if we know
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the origins it just makes it that little
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bit more interesting so prefixes are
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added to the beginning of the word and
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meaning so we have u n this comes from
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Old English another old Germanic
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language and it means not or the
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opposite so we know unlikely is not
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likely or uninformed not informed pre
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this comes from Latin this means before
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to preconceive to form an opinion before
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knowing all the facts pre-test a test
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that can be taken before learning a
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subject again in English we've got lots
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of variations we can also say a mock
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test and I can have a preest so the and
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this is what's beautiful about language
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is that when there usually is a word or
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two words that mean the same usually
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what happens is that they start to take
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on slightly different meanings you know
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Screech they have they're similar but
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they are different anyway D this comes
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from Latin this means the opposite or
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down or away so we've got
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deconstruct obviously this means uh the
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opposite of construct so it means to
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break down into parts or deregulate to
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relations and what's beautiful about
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this is now we can put this um prefix on
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deregulation you see so we've got to
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remove regulations so we've got
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deregulation and that's because we know
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the noun verb and um adverb forms anyway
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re e this comes from Latin meaning again
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back for example rebuild to build again
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re-evaluate to evaluate again
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re-evaluate my iot score I believe I
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better and then we've got another one
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from Latin which is i n i m i l or I and
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this again means not or the opposite so
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irrelevant let's have a look at the
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suffixes again a lot of these come from
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Latin and Old English and Old English as
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we should know comes from um well is a
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Germanic language so we have t i o n or
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s i o s i o n meaning state or quality
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or act for example Innovation the act of
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innovating or discussion the act of
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discussing then we've got a l e able or
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ible with an i meaning k capable of or
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worthy of this book is readable we can
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even expand this to this book is
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unreadable can you see where I'm going
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this because we know these suffixes and
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prefixes we don't have to learn it and
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memorize it just being aware and then
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when we're reading we start circling
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them and we start becoming aware of them
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it just makes it so much easier and you
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start picking it up the the formulas
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start revealing themselves all right so
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we have readable unreadable we have
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comprehensible or even
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uncomprehensible yeah um and then we
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have ly this is in a manner of form in
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the manner of in the manner of so this
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for forms adverbs so we have quick
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quickly precise precisely or we could
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even combine it with one of the ones
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before we said imprecisely
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is it unprecise imprecise
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imprecisely or imprecise you see we
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could just it's like Legos you know
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there's lots of opportunities here just
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to build the word and it's not always
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going to work but it's an
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educated way it's an educated guest to
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expand your vocabulary and when you're
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preparing you can always test it out
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Ness n SS this comes from Old English
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and it means a state or a condition
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Darkness red darkness no UND darkness no
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ill darkness no just expect just playing
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now F full meaning full of Joyful
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hopeful but here we can do it we can say
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UNH hopeful so you can see here there's
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lots of ways and it doesn't stop there
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as I've been playing with before we've
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also got the noun for form the verb form
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the adjective form and the adverb
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form and I think this is one of the
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reasons why we have this S curve when
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we're learning the language because once
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you start unlocking these it's like that
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scene in this Matrix where you see all
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the numbers and he sees everything and
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he's like wow this is how we build this
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is how we use the English language and
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it's it's a I've had the same experience
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when I'm learning Spanish and like
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ah accasion is the same as oasian in
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English I could probably do the same
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with the other I ver uh words in Spanish
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transform them to uh the other ioi I
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words in English I can easily just adopt
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them to Spanish now easy peasy lemon
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squeezy so let's have a look at some 10
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examples which uh 10 very useful words
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from the academic word list and we've
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included The Roots the prefixes the
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suffixes in the various forms so we've
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assume now we can make assumption we can
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make unassumed we can make
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reassume you see and then we've got
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assume the verb assumable the adjective
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and assumingly the adverb so just from
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one we've got six and we could even
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expand that further by using I don't
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know um the the adverb of unassumed
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which would be unass assumingly so we've
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got an exp it just expands exponentially
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again the root benefit we've got
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beneficial the adjective beneficiary the
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verb and then we've got variations such
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as uh benefit the noun verb benefited
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the verb past tense and we've got
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beneficially the adverb next one
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conclude conclusion the noun conclusive
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the adjective inconclusive the adjective
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and then we've got variations such as
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conclusively the adverb and conclud wow
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word I just researched turns out it is a
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word I had no idea it just seemed odd
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but I found it in the oed.com the ox
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English dictionary not entirely
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convinced because there's two spellings
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with able and i e but the other
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um Mariam Webster the American one it
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says oh no Google says um it's not the
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most common and it's more common to use
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conclusory which again seems
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bizarre anyway I would just personally
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just focus on using the moral common
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consistent the root is
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consistent and we've got the prefix the
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suffix which means consistent sorry
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we've got consistency the noun and
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inconsistent the adjective variations
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consistent the adjective consistently
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adverb moving on Con contribute we have
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contributor a noun also
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contributive contributive yeah adjective
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and then variations contribute the verb
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contributing verb participle and
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contributory adjective I like the word
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contributory there are many there are
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many contributory factors regarding
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global warming for example differ
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another one actually that I quite like
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um if you can use differ it definitely
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shows you've got a higher language
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ability you know it's not that common
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you definitely don't use it in spoken
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English that much um so when you use it
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in your academic writing especially as a
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non-native English writer you're going
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to stand out so the root is differ and
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we've used it uh we can use it as a noun
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difference different the adjective
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the adjective and like like we've done
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before we can put that prefix to the uh
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noun and we've got indifference there is
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an indifference among the people
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regarding climate change there is
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basically an indifference means they're
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bothered then we've got differ the verb
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the blue differs from the green drink in
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that the blue one send your kids mental
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whatever differently the adverb
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indifferently the adverb and
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indifference the noun can you see where
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you know it's just expanding and
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expanding once we've got knowledge of
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these establish establishment the noun
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established the adjective de establish
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the verb and variations establish the
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reestablish the verb and de
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establishment the noun
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so some of these do get you into quite
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uncommon words so it's worth just
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checking when you're going through
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um next one just justification is the
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noun unjustified the adjective the the
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reverse the opposite
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unjustifiable unjust justifiably just
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ify there it just goes on and on you can
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site so there we go by mastering the
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prefixes and suffixes and roots of words
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you can significantly expand your
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vocabulary it's not going to it's not
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only going to help you understand and
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boost your comprehension of academic
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terms as we said before but it also
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enhances your ability to communicate
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more precisely and effectively which is
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what we mentioned um in the middle of
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the tutorial about you know expanding
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your vocabulary so you can speak about
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the same topic or the
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same thing in your speaking exam when
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you get in the same question and again
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