Improve Your Business English Vocabulary: 40 PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH WORDS

Hi and welcome back to engVid. I'm your teacher

today, Benjamin. Let's go. What we doing today?

We are looking at 10 super useful nouns to begin with that you can use in all areas of

life really, but I've especially chosen these

words because I feel that they would be useful

to you in the world of work. Okay. So, in this lesson, we will explore the meanings

of these nouns, which are great for giving compliments and, you know, telling someone

that they've done a good job and are doing a good job. We will then look at how they

are used as adjectives. The opposite qualities,

the antonyms, when they... So, what is the

opposite of charming, for example. And then we will look at adverbs, how these nouns go

into adverbs. And I feel that using adverbs

is a really good way of showing sophistication

in your language, which is what's needed to get top grades in whether you're a native

speaker of English or an ESL learner doing some kind of exam. So, thanks for watching.

Let's get down to work.

Charm. Think of Prince Charming. Yep. He makes

everyone feel good. He enters the party and

immediately every single person he speaks to leaves the conversation feeling better

about themselves. Charm means to give delight.

Sounds good? I wouldn't mind a bit of that.

Consistency. Consistency. Could you repeat

that at home for me? Consistency. Excellent.

Now, consistency as a character quality is when you do the same thing day in, day out,

again and again. So, if you... Your consistency,

how are you with getting places on time? Is

your punctuality, would you say that you are

consistent? Yep. So, the consistency is the

ability to do something again and again and again in the same way. I said consistent,

which we'll come to in a moment, is the adjective.

Creativity. Creativity is, some of you will already know, it's the ability to kind of

come up with new ideas. Artists, painters, musicians are full of creativity. They're

full of ideas. And if you check out my video

on creative writing, you'll get some ideas

for developing your creativity.

Enthusiasm. Yep. Do I approach this lesson going, "Oh no, I've got to speak to those

guys on engVid again." Or no, I'm like, "Yes,

I've got something cool to teach them. Let's

go. I'm going to roll up my sleeves and get

down to work." Full of enthusiasm, the desire

to get fully involved in life and every single moment along the way.

Flexibility. If someone says, "Can we change

a plan?" Are you able to go, "Yeah, okay.

Yeah. No, let's... We'll stop doing that and we're going to do this instead."

Flexibility. Yep. If you're flexible, you can

bend. Yep. You're very good at yoga. That's

physical flexibility. Yep. The other type of flexibility is being able to move and be

adaptable in the way you do things. Okay. You

can see the relevance for business English.

Thank you very much for your flexibility if someone changes a plan.

Okay. Formality. Formality is how smart something

is. I would appreciate a degree of formality

in your appearance on Monday morning. A degree

of I would appreciate it if you could be quite

smart on Monday. So, the level of formality is

how smart or the opposite extreme, how scruffy,

not smart, as in physical clothing, et cetera, you present yourself. Formality.

Patience. Yep. If something bad happens, if

someone makes a mistake, are you able to say,

"Never mind. Yep. Better luck next time or I'm

sure it won't cause too much of a problem."

I was speaking to a friend back home a couple of

weeks ago. He was telling me he loves motorbikes

and I think he was teaching his girlfriend how

to ride a motorbike and she got a little bit

confused and ended up like smashing the bike up

and he displayed amazing patience because he was

like it didn't matter to him that the bike was

smashed up. He was just able to stay really calm,

make sure she was okay and continue. Patience.

Really, really important virtue. Yeah. A good

thing. Persistence. Are you able to keep going?

Yep. Marathon runners keep going. Even if they're

feeling tired, they push through. So, persistence

is where you keep trying to do something. Maybe

you're a salesman, saleswoman. Yep. If you've got

persistence, it doesn't matter if you get a no,

you try and find the yes. Success. The opposite

of failure. Yep. When things work out well,

where your effort turns into a good outcome.

Warmth. So, we know what a fire is. Yeah. It

emits. It gives out warmth. If you, as a person, give out warmth, then people

enjoy being in your company because, you know,

you're giving them kind of a nice experience.

Yeah. You're giving out good vibes, as people say

these days. Okay. So, what we're going to do now

is transform these abracadabra into adjectives.

You might, if you are an advanced learner,

have a quick, you might press pause and have a

quick go at doing this yourself. If not, stay

with me and we'll do it together. And abracadabra,

here they are. The adjectives. So, remember,

nouns are people, places, things. You can have

abstract nouns as well, which is a quality.

For example, courage. Whereas, we use adjectives

to describe the nouns. Yeah. The happy giraffe.

The silly potato. Can potatoes be silly? Okay.

So, these are all describing words, right?

Okay. The charming speech from the chief executive. Yeah. Charming. Very charming.

It was welcoming. It was funny. The charming

welcome given by the members of the welcoming

committee. Yeah. Full of good feeling. Consistent. The consistent employee who

always met their deadlines. They did it the

same way each time. Consistent. The consistent

employee we're going to go with. Creative. The creative developer. Yep. Web developer.

They're always coming up with exciting new

fonts and images and slogans. Creative. They are

full of creativity. Enthusiastic. The students

were enthusiastic about going on the field trip

to the Natural History Museum. They were

enthusiastic. Yeah. They were full of excitement.

Flexible. Thank you for being flexible in your

arrangements. He or she is flexible in the way

they do their job. Yep. Sometimes they'll do it

like this. Sometimes they'll do it like that.

And it depends what the customer wants. They can

adjust the way they do things according to the

customer. They are flexible. Formal. Formal dress

you may get on an invitation. That means you need

to wear smart clothes. And I will be doing a

separate lesson on dress codes to address this.

Formal. You are very formal. A formal speech.

A formal email. A formal email is one written

in proper English. No slang. Good punctuation.

Yeah. Good vocab. Patient. The nurse was very

patient despite the behavior of the patients. So,

being patient. Yeah. We don't get angry. Yeah.

We can stay calm because it's okay to wait. Sheila was very patient in the long queue.

She stood and waited. Persistent.

Sheila was persistent because she knew she needed

to get a ticket. And when the counter closed and

said come back tomorrow, it didn't bother her.

And she came back. Yep. To do something again

and again and again. Schools can be quite persistent at encouraging good attendance.

Yep. They make phone calls. They talk to people.

Yep. They make consistent. Persistent. Yeah.

Quite similar. Sounds the same. Quite similar

meaning too. If you persist, you keep going

through. Per means through. Okay. Successful.

The successful businesswoman made a lot of money.

Yep. She achieved success. Yes? If you achieve success, if you're successful,

you're a person that is full of success. You've done really well.

Warm. She was a very warm character. Yeah. She was very kind. Very nice. Okay.

Antonyms. An antonym is the opposite. So, synonym is a word that... So, a synonym of

charm might be wit. It's a similar word. We're

now looking for antonyms meaning the opposite

of the adjectives. Have a quick look. Choose one. Choose one word from here.

This is probably the easiest. Can you think of

an antonym? Okay. I'm going to write them up now.

Okay. The antonyms can be a little bit complicated

because not every adjective has a direct

antonym. So, sometimes, we can use prefixes.

So, it means the opposite. But sometimes,

we need to look for a totally new word. Now, I

asked you to do this word. Yep. You can't say

he's an or she is an unwarm person. We say cold. Yeah. Hot and cold. Warm and cold.

Right. Let's go through these. So, charming.

Yeah. When we give out lots of lovely energy and

people feel really good to be around us. An

uncharming person. No. So, the opposite effect

of that is if you are repulsive. But it's not

a perfect antonym because generally speaking,

this refers to character. Where if you say

repulsive, this is often to do with like physical

appearance. So, it's kind of an antonym but it's

not perfect. Repulsive behavior is like really,

really bad behavior that drives people away.

That said. Opposite of consistent, inconsistent.

I'm afraid, Benjamin. You've been a little

bit inconsistent, the manager might say to me.

Inconsistent. You haven't been doing things in a

consistent enough manner. Yeah, right. Normally,

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now, I'm going to say it now. Make sure you're a

subscriber to me. Uncreative. A creative person

has lots of ideas. An uncreative person doesn't.

They like prefer to do things in a rigorously

systematic approach and are and find numbers and

rules and equations easier than being imaginative. I'm not saying math is an

uncreative subject or maybe I am. Right. Unenthusiastic. If you have no

excitement and enjoyment in what you are doing.

Unenthusiastic. Quite difficult to pronounce.

Unenthusiastic. Unenthusiastic. Unenthusiastic.

One more time. Unenthusiastic. Good.

Inflexible. If someone's flexible, they can adapt.

They can come up with new ideas. Someone who is

inflexible does things the same way and if someone wants them to change, no thanks.

Informal. I'm wearing an informal shirt. Yep. If

I was wearing a formal shirt, it would be buttoned

up. I would be wearing a tie. It would have

cufflinks and I would have my jacket on. Yep.

Informal. In a relaxed or casual style.

Impatient. Where I have no patience. I'm driving.

Someone is driving slowly in front of me. Horn. Yeah. I'm being in impatient.

I can't wait. Impatient. Say that for me.

Impatient. Now, this one doesn't have a direct

antonym so I have to go searching for a word

that means the opposite. Now, resolution. At the

beginning of the year, we make New Year's

resolutions. I'm going to do this, this, and this

and then we forget about them in a week. Yep.

If you are a resolute person, then you continue

with those resolutions all the way through the

year. But this little prefix here means the

opposite. So, if I'm irresolute, I don't follow

through with my resolutions all the way through

the year. They last for a day. Irresolute. To not

have the perseverance to be able to do something.

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Cold. We know what the weather's like if it's

cold. If a person is cold, then they leave us

feeling after we've seen them. No, they leave us

feeling a bit kind of, "Oh, God, that was a bit

nasty." Yeah, if someone's a bit cold, then they

can be, you know, there's no sort of small talk.

They can be quite cutting to the point. Not very

nice. Right. It leaves us to find the adverbs,

the way in which things are done. So, if you are

an advanced learner of English, you'll want to

play around with where the adverb is positioned

in the sentence. It can be at the beginning,

middle, or end, sort of depending on the sentence.

If you are a beginner or intermediate student,

if you're a beginner, you're doing really well

watching this lesson. If you're intermediate,

let's just try and get the adverbs in at all.

This one could go quite well at the beginning.

Charmingly, full of charm. Charmingly, he invited me to the party as well. Yeah,

it was such a nice thing for him to have done.

Consistently. You are consistently late. It is

a problem. So, it's between the pronoun and the main verb. You are consistently late.

Creatively. I thought you did that really creatively. You did your presentation

amazingly creatively. You did that creatively.

You did that creatively. So, I've got the adverb

at the end. Okay. Okay. There are other lessons

on engVid on adverb placement, so you can check

those out. He did that creatively. She did that

creatively. You played the song enthusiastically.

Yeah. She sang the song enthusiastically. He walked into the room enthusiastically.

So, I'm using the adverb at the end of the sentence here. Flexibly.

Flexibly. She managed to schedule the appointment

flexibly. Yeah. She handled the request

flexibly. It would probably work better with the noun there. With flexibility.

Formally. To be formally invited to a wedding.

Yeah, you get the proper invitation card.

To dress formally. Patiently. She waited patiently. So, I've got there the adverb

describing how the verb is done. That's what

adverbs always do. They're describing the verb

persistently. She persistently asked him to

marry her. She kept on asking. She persistently

asked him to marry her. Kind of reverse roles

going on. Warmly. He smiled warmly at me.

Successfully. I missed one out. I must have been thinking, imagining something.

I was imagining going to the restaurant and the

person serving me warmly because I am hungry,

but I have to wait and explain one more word.

Successfully. The cook cooked my meal successfully.

Yeah, it was done really well. Okay, guys, as

I've said, you've done 40 new words. We've looked

at the difference between nouns, adjectives, and

adverbs. Remember, adjectives describe nouns.

Adverbs describe verbs. Have a go at the quiz

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to go. Until next time, I hope you have...

I hope your life is full of... I hope you are full of enthusiasm.

I hope that you can be persistent with your studies. I hope that

you will stop being irresolute by doing the quiz right now,

and that you will do it enthusiastically. Boom. See you next time.