Improve Your Vocabulary/Don't sound "boring" in a conversation @HannahKhoma

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Everyone wants to be able to tell an interesting story, whether it be something scary, cool,

or outrageous that happened to them, or it can be something as simple as writing a post

or sending a message. Either way everyone wants to be interesting to listen to.

Among other things of course, it’s essential to use a variety of words so as not sound

repetitive or boring and to make your story more relatable and engaging. And for this

purpose we can use synonyms. A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly

or nearly the same as another word or phrase. So even though they describe the same thing

or action their meaning might differ quite a bit and sometimes to narrate or characterize

something better it’s better to use more suitable words.

In this video, we’ll focus on the word “walk”. A super common word, used lots of times a

day by everyone. So let’s get into it. So, we have the word “walk” which means

to move on foot at a moderate speed or pace, or to cause to walk like to lead as an animal.

You can walk your dog for instance. And it would be a verb in those cases. Also we can

use it as a noun to mean a period of walking for exercise or pleasure.

So you can simply say “I want to go for a walk.”, or “I had a nice walk in the

park yesterday.” Or, for example “To get to that mall, we can just walk and it’ll

take us 10 minutes. Or, we can drive there and it’ll take us 3 minutes.”

Now let’s say I want to tell you that my husband and I had a pleasant and peaceful

walk through the city center yesterday evening. Instead of saying “a pleasant and peaceful

walk” I can say “stroll”. “We can go for a stroll” or you say “We

can take a stroll after dinner.” To stroll means to walk leisurely. It also

can be a verb and a noun. And I can say “My husband and I strolled through the city center

yesterday evening” or “We had a nice stroll through the city center yesterday evening.”

Or you can describe someone else. “I just saw an adorable, old couple strolling and

holding hands. It was the cutest thing ever.” There’s also a word “promenade” which

means to stroll or walk leisurely especially in a public place and an area used for such

walking. So you can use “promenade” instead of stroll in the previous example.

Instead of the word “stroll” you can use “saunter” that means the same thing as

“stroll” – to walk in a leisurely manner. “When I was in school I would sometimes

skip classes and just saunter in the school garden.”

“Before I started making shopping lists I would often times saunter up the aisles

trying to remember what I needed to buy.” And as a result buying things that I didn’t

need at all. Another synonymous word is “wander” but

it has a slightly different meaning to it. If you use it you mean an aimless – without

purpose or direction - casual or relaxed walk. “I suggest you take a guided tour instead

of just wandering around if you decide to visit London.”

One more synonymous word would be “amble” which means walk or move at a slow, relaxed

pace; stroll; saunter. So, you can literally use this word instead of those.

“Sometimes I need a day off to do nothing, except for ambling to the fridge to grab something

and go back to Netflix binging.” You can use it to talk about animals: “Cows

aren’t fast animals - they usually like to amble around.”

Another word that is usually used to talk about animals is “roam”, and it means

to wander or walk without a fixed purpose or direction.

“My sister in law allows her chickens to roam around their back yard.”

The word “ramble” means basically the same thing as roam, however it also means

to talk about something in an aimless way and it’s typically used to mean exactly

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Then we have the word “rove” which means to travel or wander through or over something

without a fixed destination. “I noticed a suspicious car that would just

rove around our neighborhood.” This word is very interesting – meander,

which means wander aimlessly again and it can be used to describe this manner of walking,

it’s mostly used to talk about something that follows a winding course like a river

or a road. Also, if you want to say that you want to

go for a walk you can use the idiom “I need to stretch my legs.” which means to go for

a walk, especially after sitting for a long time.

So, in this video we talked about this relaxed, sometimes purposeless and fuzzy manner of

walking. On the other hand, there are words that describe a brisk movement with a purpose

of course. But we’ll leave those for another video.