LEARN 105 ENGLISH VOCABULARY WORDS | DAY 4

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It's day four of your 30-Day Vocabulary  Challenge. One video, every day for 30 days to  
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help you master 105 intermediate English words.  We're taking words from the academic word list,  
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so these are words you'll need to know if  you're preparing for the IELTS or TOEFL exam,  
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but also if you read or watch news in English  or have conversations with native speakers.  
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In other words, these words are useful. So grab  your friends have them join you in this challenge  
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and let's do this. As always, if you like  this video, or you learned something new,  
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please like and subscribe with  notifications. It really helps.
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There's a download to go with this video. A list  of all of the words with definitions and sample  
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sentences, as well as quizzes to make sure you're  really getting and remembering these words. You  
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can get that download by following this link, or  the link in the video description. Today, we're  
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learning four words: ESTIMATE, PROCESS, RESEARCH,  and METHOD. And we're looking at the different  
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ways these words are used in various situations.  For each word, you'll get the definition,  
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we'll go over the pronunciation, you'll get to see  the pronunciation up close and in slow motion, and  
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we'll have five examples from real life English.
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First the word ESTIMATE.
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This word has two  
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different pronunciations. Estimate or estimate.  Both with first syllable stress. Estimate.
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Estimate. As a verb, it has first syllable stress.  Estimate. It means to roughly calculate, to judge,  
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to give or form a general idea about the value,  size, or cost of something. They estimated that  
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the distance was about three miles. As a noun,  it can be estimate or estimate. As a noun,  
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this is a guess that you make based on the  information you have about the size, amount, etc.  
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Of something. According to government estimates,  current oil reserves are 10 percent lower than  
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they were a year ago. Let's look again  at this word up close and in slow motion. 
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And now we'll go to Youglish for five  examples of this word in real situations. 
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And you can see we, estimate  it with great precision. 
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Estimate. Guess at with great precision. Oh,  they're very good at estimating apparently,  
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they can get very close to the actual number. And you can see, we estimate it  
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with great precision. Here's another example. 
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And as has been mentioned, we, we estimate  now there's about 10,000 of these diseases. 
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Based on what they know,  guessing the number of diseases. 
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And as has been mentioned, we, we estimate  now there's about 10,000 of these diseases 
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Here's another example. 
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They estimate this is the worst drought in  California in over twelve hundred years. 
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Roughly judging, guessing it's the worst  drought in over twelve hundred years. 
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They estimate this is the worst drought in  California in over twelve hundred years. 
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Let's go on to our next example. 238 billion dollars was the estimate in 2007. 
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Now, it's a noun and we have  the other pronunciation.  
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Estimate. This was the guess in 2007. 238 billion dollars was the estimate in 2007. 
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Here's our last example. They estimate a food's shelf life,  
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that is how long the lettuce will be crisp,  or how long before the milk begins to sour. 
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Estimate, roughly calculate, give  an approximation, a good guess. 
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They estimate a food's shelf life, that  is how long the lettuce will be crisp,  
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or how long before the milk begins to sour. Next, the word PROCESS. Process. A two-syllable  
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word with first syllable stress. Process. It's a  noun, a series of actions that produce something,  
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or that lead to a particular result. Learning  a foreign language can be a difficult process.  
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As a verb, it means to change  something from one form into another,  
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to deal with something like a document or a  request, or to take in and use, like information.  
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Your application will be processed  in five to ten business days.  
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Or, wow that's a lot of information to process.  Again, let's look up close and in slow motion. 
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And now we'll go to Youglish for five  examples of this word in real situations. 
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In the best case, the application takes  about six to eight months to process. 
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Six to eight months to be processed. That is  to be dealt with, what are all the things that  
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need to be done with this application.?  It takes six to eight months to do that. 
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In the best case, the application takes  about six to eight months to process. 
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Here's another example. If you're a part of a hiring process,  
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or an admissions process, you can be color brave. A hiring process. The series of actions needed  
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to hire someone, like looking at cover  letters and resumes, and holding interviews. 
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If you're a part of a hiring  process, or an admissions process,  
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you can be color brave. Here's another example. 
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In that process of going through thousands of  pages, to 20 pages, to 10 pages, to five, to two,  
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I was learning judgment. In that process. In the steps needed  
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to go through thousands of pages to two. In that process of going through  
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thousands of pages, to 20 pages, to 10 pages,  to five, to two, I was learning judgment. 
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Here's another example. And the reality is,  
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I’ve been part of this process all my life. A part of the process. A part of the steps  
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needed to do something. And the reality is  
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I’ve been part of this process all my life. Here's our last example. 
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This causes the milk to curdle. It's  part of the cheese making process. 
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The process, the steps needed  to turn milk into cheese. 
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This causes the milk to curdle. It's  part of the cheese making process. 
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Next the word RESEARCH. Another word with  two pronunciations. Research or research. 
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As a noun, it means careful study that's done to  find and report new knowledge about something.  
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She conducts research on blood cancers. As a  verb, it means to study something carefully,  
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to collect information about a  subject. Before going out to eat,  
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she researched area restaurants. Let's  look again up close and in slow motion. 
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And now we'll go to Youglish for five  examples of this word in real situations. 
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We don't have statistics on that and  we're hoping a graduate student who  
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listens to this episode will research it. Will research it. Will study it carefully. 
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We don't have statistics on that and we're  hoping a graduate student who listens to this  
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episode will research it. Here's another example. 
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So um, this was a really fun chapter  to, to research and then put together. 
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It was fun to study this and report  the new knowledge, the findings. 
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So um, this was a really fun chapter  to, to research and then put together. 
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Another example. So as soon as I  
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got home that day, I did some research. Did some research. Studied it, looked stuff  
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up for more information, to learn more about it. So as soon as I got home that day,  
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I did some research. Another example. 
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There's a lot of research that shows that. A lot of research. Studies that have been done. 
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There's a lot of research that shows that. Let's go on to our next example. 
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Where is the research going right now? Where the research is going,  
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As we learn more about it through  careful study, what are we learning? 
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Where is the research going right now? Did you notice each one of those had  
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the pronunciation with the first syllable  stress? Research. That one is more common. 
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And our last word today is METHOD. Method. With  an unvoiced TH, the tongue tip does have to come  
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through the teeth for this. Method. As a  noun, it means a way of doing something.  
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I recommend using the Play It Say It  practice method in Rachel's English Academy.  
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That is the way to practice that I’ve developed  that I think gives my students the best results.  
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Here's the word up close and in slow motion again.
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And now we'll go to Youglish for five examples of  
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this word in real situations. What is our therapy method? 
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Our therapy method. The way we do therapy, which  might be different from the way someone else does  
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therapy. There's music therapy, art therapy,  talk therapy, all different methods of therapy. 
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What is our therapy method? Here's another example. 
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They have a very different  method of educating people. 
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A very different method. That  is a completely different way of  
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doing things when it comes to education. They have a very different method  
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of educating people. Here's another example. 
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Well, using the spotlight method, we can write  some new headlines that are more customer-focused. 
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The spotlight method. A way of  doing things that focuses on,  
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or puts the spotlight on the customers. Well, using the spotlight method, we can write  
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some new headlines that are more customer-focused. Here's another example. 
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We've got, you know, pap smears and mammograms  to detect breast cancer and things like that,  
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Is there really any early detection method? Early detection method. That is a way of  
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doing things that would help us detect  cancer even earlier than we can now. 
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We've got, you know, pap smears and mammograms  to detect breast cancer and things like that,  
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Is there really any early detection method? Here's our last example. 
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But do you find that to be an  effective method of communication? 
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An effective way to communicate. You can choose  
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lots of ways to communicate, yelling, being  very calm, using gestures, writing a note. 
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But do you find that to be an  effective method of communication? 
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Seeing their real-life examples can really  help you understand how to use these words,  
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can't it? I have a challenge for you now.  Make up a sentence with one of these words,  
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and post it to social media, tag me, and use  the hashtag #rachelsenglish30daychallenge 
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Don't be shy, you can do this. Our next video  comes out tomorrow at 10AM Philadelphia time,  
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come back to learn four more vocabulary words.  In the meantime, keep your studies going with  
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this video, and check out my online  courses at rachelsenglishacademy.com  
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You'll become a more confident English  speaker. And please do remember to subscribe.  
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I love being your English teacher. That's it  and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.
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