LEARN 105 ENGLISH VOCABULARY WORDS | DAY 9

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Rachel's English


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It's day 9 in our 30 Day Vocabulary Challenge.  We're starting 2021 by learning 105 new words from  
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the academic word list, words you'll want to know  if you're preparing for the IELTS or TOEFL exam,  
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but also if you read or watch the news in  English or have conversations with native  
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speakers. In other words, these are useful words  that will come through for you once you really  
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understand how to use them. You're learning four  new words today with tons of real life examples.  
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So grab your friends, have them  join you in this challenge, and  
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let's do this! When you learn a new word, make  up your own sentence, record yourself in a video  
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saying that sentence, and post to social media  using the hashtag #rachelsenglish30daychallenge
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And as always, if you like this video, or you  learned something new, please like and subscribe  
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with notifications. It means a lot.  
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Don't forget, there's a download to go with this video, 
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a list of all the words with  definitions and sample sentences,  
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as well as quizzes to make sure you're  really getting and remembering these words.  
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You can get that download by following this  link or the link in the video description.
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Our first word today is the word FORMULA.  
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Formula. When AW as in law is followed by R,  like in a stressed syllable here, it's not a pure  
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AW vowel. It's not faw— formula, but it's faw--  fawr-- fawr-- so the lips round a little bit more,  
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and the tongue shifts back a little bit more  than for a pure AW, fawr—formula. It's a noun,  
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it means a plan or method for doing making, or  achieving something. His investment strategy  
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is based on a simple formula. 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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Yeah, so Netflix, you know they have a  formula and it seems to work for them.
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Netflix has a formula. They have a  certain way of creating shows and movies.
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Yeah, so Netflix, you know they have a  formula and it seems to work for them.
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Here's another example.
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We're going to talk about a  formula for procrastination.
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A formula for procrastination. Procrastination  is putting something off that you should do,  
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like waiting until the very last  night to study for a big exam.  
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A formula for procrastination,  a method for procrastination,  
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different ways to distract yourself so that  you don't do what you really should do.
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We're going to talk about a  formula for procrastination.
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Here's another example.
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And there's no one formula.
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There's no one formula.  There's no one way to do it.  
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Many different methods or approaches  or ways of doing it would work.
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And there's no one formula.
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Another example.
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And that's sort of the magic formula.
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The magic formula. The way of doing  something that works really well.
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And that's sort of the magic formula.
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Here's our last example.
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My formula was to just be creative.
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My formula was just to be creative.  
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My way of doing things, my method  was to let creativity guide me.
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My formula was to just be creative.
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The next word is THEORY. This is one of those  words that can be two syllables or three. Theory  
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or theory. The two syllable pronunciation  is more common, and it's what I’ll do.  
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It's a noun, an idea or set of ideas  that's intended to explain facts or events.  
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An idea that's possibly true, but not known  or proven to be true. I’ve been reading  
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Darwin’s theories of evolution. Let's look at the  pronunciation up close and in slow motion again.  
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IH as in sit is not pure  here. The R does change it.  
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It changes into a sound more like EE as in she, so  it's not ih-- thih-- theory, but EE, thee— theory.
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And now we'll go to Youglish for five  examples of this word in real situations.
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My theory is Venice is sinking,  in part because it just was not  
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constructed to hold all those crowds all day long.
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My theory, my guess is, I think this is  true, but I haven't proven it to be true.
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My theory is Venice is sinking,  in part because it just was not  
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constructed to hold all those crowds all day long.
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Here's another example.
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Do you have a theory on why that is?
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Do you have a theory, a guess as  to why this thing is happening?  
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Is it something you can try to explain?
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Do you have a theory on why that is?
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Here's another example.
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We really don't know how the universe began even  though we have theory-- or what's before it.
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We have a theory, but we really  don't know. It's our idea  
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based on what we know, but it's not proven.
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We really don't know how the universe began even  though we have theory-- or what's before it.
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Here's another example.
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So there again, it's true in theory, and it's true  for some women, but for many, many it's not.
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When something is true in theory, this means the  idea makes sense and things should work like that,  
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but in real life, it might not. For example,  in theory, you should do better on a test if  
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you study more, but if you're really  nervous, you might actually do worse.
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So there again, it's true in theory, and it's  true for some women, but for many, many it's not.
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Here's our last example.
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Because his theory was, you cannot have a great  city without a great public school system.
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This was his theory, this is what he thought  about cities and schools without having set up a  
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city with a great school system. He hadn't proven  it, but it was his idea about how things worked.
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Because his theory was you cannot have a great  city without a great public school system.
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Our next word is INTERPRET. It's a little tricky  with those two R's, isn't it? Inter-- that's the  
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UR vowel R combination, inter-- pret. Then a  quick P, tongue stays in position for the R,  
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before the final syllable. Interpret. It's a verb,  it means to explain the meaning of something,  
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to understand in a certain way, or  to translate. The team is trying to  
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interpret results from their study. 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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And normally, we interpret these  physical changes as anxiety.
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We explain the physical changes by saying these  people were anxious and that's why it happened.
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And normally, we interpret these  physical changes as anxiety.
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Another example.
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And the the way that I interpret  what's going on is a couple of things.
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The way that I explain this, we have a  situation, I have ideas about why it's this way.
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And the the way that I interpret  what's going on is a couple of things.
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Let's go on to our next example.
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Now, there's many ways to interpret  this and I have to be careful here.
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There are many ways to interpret this. Many  different ways this can be explained. For example,  
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the baby is crying because he's  too tired, because he ate too much,  
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because he's hungry, because  he's hot, because he's too cold.  
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There are many different explanations, many  ways to interpret why the baby is crying.
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Now, there's many ways to interpret  this and I have to be careful here.
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Here's another example.
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But I’ll let you interpret that however you want.
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You interpret it, you decide what it means,  or how it came to be, you explain it.
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But I’ll let you interpret that however you want.
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Here's our last example.
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So that led us to an assessment so trying  to interpret, well, why did this happen?
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Trying to understand and  explain why this happened.
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So that led us to an assessment so trying  to interpret, well, why did this happen?
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Our last word today is DEFINE. It's a verb,  it means to explain the meaning of a word or  
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a phrase, or to show or describe clearly and  completely. I go to learnersdictionary.com to  
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define difficult terms. 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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Once we define the problem,  we can prevent that death.
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You have to define the problem  to really understand what it is,  
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to be able to describe it fully and clearly,  before you can start to solve the problem.
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Once we define the problem,  we can prevent that death.
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Another example.
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We use technology to define ourselves,  
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by sharing our thoughts and  feelings even as we're having them.
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We define ourselves. We explain  the meaning of ourselves,  
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we show who we are by what  we post on social media.
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We use technology to define ourselves,  
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by sharing our thoughts and  feelings even as we're having them.
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Here's another example.
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But I’m here to define a little  bit more about what Chemistry is.
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Define more about what Chemistry is. Describe  clearly and completely what is chemistry.
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But I’m here to define a little  bit more about what Chemistry is.
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Here's another example.
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How do you define yourself?
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How do you define yourself? Do  you define yourself by your work,  
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your relationships, your hobbies, your  passion. How do you describe yourself?
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How do you define yourself?
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Here's our last example.
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Patiently is being patient, and you know you can't  define a word by a word so I had to look it up.
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You can't define a word by a word. That means you  can't explain the meaning of a word by using that  
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same word in the explanation. For example,  you can't say an ant is a little brown ant.  
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You have to say something like an ant is a little  brown insect. You can't explain something using  
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that same thing to explain it. You have to  use other words, other things to define it.
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Patiently is being patient, and you know you can't  define a word by a word so I had to look it up.
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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, come  
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back to learn four more vocabulary words. In the  meantime, keep your studies going with this video,  
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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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