LEARN 105 ENGLISH VOCABULARY WORDS | DAY 16

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Rachel's English


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It's day 16 of your 30 Day English Vocabulary  Challenge to start 2021 right. We're learning 105  
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words from the academic word list, words that will  help you have sophisticated English conversations,  
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words you need to know if you're preparing for  the IELTS or TOEFL exams. I've been watching the  
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posts you've been making about this challenge,  it's incredible, inspiring. Make up a sentence  
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to a word you learned, and post it on social.  Don't forget to like and subscribe, and don't  
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forget to download the study guide that goes with  this 30-day challenge. You can do that by clicking  
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here or the link in the video description. Learn  the words, ace the quizzes, you've got this!  
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Our first word today is SIMILAR.  
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Similar. A three syllable word with first syllable  stress. Sim— ih-- lar. Similar. It's an adjective,  
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meaning almost the same as someone or  something else. Our cats are similar in color.  
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Pretty straightforward. But let's go to Youglish  for five real life examples after you watch up  
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close and in slow motion.
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Here's our first example. 
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So it's really interesting  to see how similar these are. 
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How similar they are. How  close to the same they are. 
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So it's really interesting  to see how similar these are. 
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Here's another example. But you might end up being drawn to each other  
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or do you become more similar as you are together? Are you drawn to someone because you're similar,  
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you're almost the same, or do you become  more similar because you're together? 
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But you might end up being drawn to each other or  do you become more similar as you are together? 
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Here's another example. So I think we share a little bit of similar DNA. 
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Similar DNA. DNA that's close to being the same. So I think we share a little bit of similar DNA. 
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Another example. Remarkably, all over the world,  
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cultures have really similar stories,  similar mythologies about butterflies. 
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Around the world, the stories of butterflies  from different cultures are close to the same. 
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Remarkably, all over the world,  cultures have really similar stories,  
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similar mythologies about butterflies. Our last example. 
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But working along similar lines. Along similar lines. This is an idiom that means  
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almost the same, comparable. Your vacation  sounds great, I’m interested in one along  
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similar lines for my family trip this summer.  In other words, I’d like to do a vacation like  
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the one you did with your family. But working along similar lines. 
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Our next word is VARIABLE. Variable. In the first  syllable, the stressed syllable, we have the  
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EH as in bed followed by schwa R. So those  sounds will change the EH vowel, it's not pure.  
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Veh-- variable. It's not veh--  but veh-- eh-- vare, vare--  
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a little bit more closed down. Variable.  Variable. It's an adjective, it means able or  
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likely to change. It has a variable climate.  As a noun, it means something that changes or  
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that can be changed. Unemployment is an economic  variable. Let's watch up close and in slow motion. 
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And now we'll go to Youglish for five examples. I think that's the critical variable. 
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The critical variable. The thing that changes  that matters the most in this situation. 
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I think that's the critical variable. Here's another example. 
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It is your physical activity  which is the most variable  
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between people and the hardest to measure. The most variable, the most likely to change  
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or be different. When looking at people, this  is a lot harder to measure than something like  
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age, education, income level, and so on. It is your physical activity which is the  
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most variable between people  and the hardest to measure. 
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Here's another example. While, you know, primary  
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education is now free in the US, it's  a tremendously variable quality right. 
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Tremendously variable quality. The quality can be  very different, very changed from one situation to  
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another. In one school, the educational quality  might be top notch, while in another school,  
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in the same city, the quality is poor. While, you know, primary education is now free  
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in the US, it's a tremendously  variable quality right. 
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Another example. What's variable is when and how  
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long a student actually has to work on something. What's variable, what changes, is when a student  
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works on something and for  how long in this situation. 
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What's variable is when and how long a  student actually has to work on something. 
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Our last example. Think about, okay, fixed versus variable. 
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Fixed versus variable. Comparing two  opposites here. Something that's fixed  
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doesn't change, something that's  variable is able and likely to change. 
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Think about, okay, fixed versus variable. Our last word today is SECTION.
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A two syllable word with first syllable  stress. This one does have the pure  
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EH vowel in the first syllable. Eh—section. It's  a noun, one of the parts that forms something.  
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The section of this road is closed. But it can  also be a verb, to divide something into parts.  
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Section the chicken and marinate the parts.  Let's see this up close and in slow motion. 
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And now we'll go to Youglish for five examples. And there's a pretty big section of that  
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pie chart, about 40 percent. A pretty big section of that  
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pie chart. A big part. A pie chart is a way of  showing amounts of things, comparing percentages,  
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how big a part is a section compared to  the other parts, and compared to the whole. 
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And there's a pretty big section of  that pie chart, about 40 percent. 
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Here's another example. I've also found in Italy, there's a lot of,  
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you know, expensive fancy grocery  stores that have a deli section. 
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A deli section. That is the part  of the store with a deli counter,  
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where you can buy prepared foods or  slices of meat and cheese for sandwiches,  
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for example, this would be different  than say the frozen foods section. 
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I've also found in Italy, there's  a lot of, you know, expensive fancy  
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grocery stores that have a deli section. Another example. 
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Last section I’ll move to um, the, the questions. The last section, the last part of this talk.  
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His talk was divided into sections or  categories, what he was talking about,  
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different topics. After the last section,  he'll be done and he'll take questions. 
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Last section I’ll move to um, the, the questions. Another example. 
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Totally changing the health  section of the magazine. 
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The health section. The part of the magazine  that covers issues related to health. Newspapers  
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also have sections. When we get our paper  every Sunday, David and I divide out the  
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sections. We each take a few to read and then  we trade them when we're done. Business Sunday,  
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the book review, and so on. Totally changing the health section  
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of the magazine. Our last example. 
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The way that I’m going to section this  hair is I’m going to take my comb. 
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Section this hair. There, it's the verb.  Divide the hair into different parts. 
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The way that I’m going to section this  hair is I’m going to take my comb.
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Seeing their real-life examples can really help  you understand how to use these words, can't it?  
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I have a challenge for you now. Make  up a sentence with one of these words,  
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make a short video of your sentence,
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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  
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Philadelphia time, come back to learn four  more vocabulary words. In the meantime,  
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keep your studies going with this video, and check  out my online courses at Rachel's English Academy,
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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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