LEARN 105 ENGLISH VOCABULARY WORDS | DAY 3

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Rachel's English


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Today is our third day in our 30-day vocabulary  challenge for 2021. One new video a day for the  
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next 30 days to help you learn and boost  your vocabulary. We're learning 105 words.  
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We're taking our words from the academic word  list so these are words you'll need to know if  
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you're preparing for the IELTS or TOEFL exam, but  also if you read or watch news in English, or have  
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conversations with native speakers. These are  intermediate words and they are useful, so grab  
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a friend have them join the challenge with you and  let's do this. As always, if you like this video,  
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or you learned something new, please like and  subscribe with notifications, it means a lot.
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We're on day three and we're learning four  words today. I do have a download for you a  
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list of all the words with definitions and sample  sentences, as well as quizzes to make sure you're  
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really getting and remembering these words. You  can get that download by following this link,  
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or the link in the video description. Today's  words are: significant, role, major, and period.  
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And we're looking at the different ways these  words are used in various situations. For each  
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word, you'll get the definition, we'll cover the  pronunciation, you'll get to see up close footage  
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of the mouth saying this word, and we'll also  have five examples from real life English.
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Our first word is SIGNIFICANT.  
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Significant. It's a four-syllable word  with second syllable stress. Make sure  
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those unstressed syllables are flatter, lower in  pitch. Sig-nificant. Ficant. Ficant. Significant.  
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As an adjective, it means large enough  to be noticed, or have an effect.  
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Very important, there's a significant  difference between prices in the two stores.  
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Let's again see 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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The site is a work in progress  but it's significant progress.
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Significant progress. Not just a little  bit of progress, also not a whole,  
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whole lot of progress but enough to be noticed  and have an effect. Significant progress.
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The site is a work in progress  but it's significant progress.
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Here's another example.
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And here there are significant, quantifiable  racial disparities that cannot be ignored.
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Significant. Noticeable enough  to matter and have an effect.
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And here there are significant quantifiable  racial disparities that cannot be ignored.
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Another example.
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The question is: will you find something  that is scientifically significant?
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Scientifically significant.  From a scientific perspective,  
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enough to be noticed or have an effect.
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The question is: will you find something  that is scientifically significant?
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Here's another example.
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It is a significant problem around the  world, there's about one billion people.
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A significant problem. Maybe not a huge problem,  
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but not a tiny problem either. Big enough  to have an effect to be important.
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It is a significant problem around the  world, there's about 1 billion people.
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Here's our last example.
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Shortly after I turned 30, I decided I wanted to  
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dedicate a significant amount of my  life to solving climate change.
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A significant amount of my time. Not all of  his time but a significant amount, enough  
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to make a difference in his schedule, enough  to feel like he's really doing something.
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Shortly after I turned 30, I decided I wanted to  
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dedicate a significant amount of my  life to solving climate change.
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Next. The word ROLE.
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We have the R  consonant, the OH diphthong, and the dark L.  
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Role. Uhl, uhl. uhl. The dark L does affect  that diphthong. It's not row, row, role,  
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but it's role, more like a single sound, a  little bit more lip rounding. The tongue pulls  
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back a little bit more. Role, uhl, uhl. And  then finally, the dark sound where the tongue  
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pushes down and back a bit more to make that dark  sound. The tongue tip can stay down. Role. Role.
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Noun, a character played by an actor  or a part that someone or something  
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has in a particular activity or situation. I  had a minor role in the play. You played a role  
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in my decision to move to New York. Let's look  at this up close and in slow motion again.
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And now we'll go to Youglish for five  examples of this word in real situations.
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I think everybody here recognizes  the importance of a role model.
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A role model. This is a common use of  role. A role model is someone you can  
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look to as a model person in that role.  An outstanding example, something that  
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you might strive to be yourself, to imitate. A  student who studies hard and gets good grades  
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could be a good role model for  another student who's struggling.
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I think everybody here recognizes  the importance of a role model.
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Here's another example.
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Haley, what role would you play in a movie?
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A role in a movie is a part. I am playing  the role of the mother. Or she has a lead  
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role. That means she's one  of the main characters.
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Haley, what role would you play in a movie?
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Another example.
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While the moon fulfills its  role of lighting the night,  
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it also serves key roles in the cycles of life.
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Its role in lighting the night. That's what it  does at night in that situation. When it's dark,  
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the moon provides some light.
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While the moon fulfills its  role of lighting the night,  
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it also serves key roles in the cycles of life.
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Here's another example.
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Our role as the foundation will be to help  facilitate an environmental education program.
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Our role. The part we play, what we need to do,  
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what is expected of us, how to  help facilitate this program.
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Our role as the foundation will be to help  facilitate an environmental education program.
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Here's our last example.
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And also importantly, what  role does government have?
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What role does government have? What  should it do in and for society?
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And also importantly, what  role does government have.
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Next the word MAJOR.   
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It's an adjective,  it means very important. A large number or amount
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or very serious. Researchers have announced  a major advance in the treatment of cancer.  
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As a noun, it means the main subject studied by a  college or university student. He chose History as  
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his major, and French as his minor. Let's  see this 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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I started out as a math major in  college with an education minor.
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A math major. What she chose  to study in college. Actually,  
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I was a Math major too. I majored in Applied  Math and Computer Science and also Music.
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I started out as a math major in  college with an Education minor.
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Here's another example.
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And we've learned that there are major  differences in the ways that women and men  
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experience disease.
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Major differences. That is big differences.
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And we've learned that there are major differences  
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in the ways that women and  men experience disease.
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Another example.
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The country lies along the delta  of three major European rivers.
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Three major European rivers. That is  not minor rivers, not small rivers, but  
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big rivers, important rivers.
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The country lies along the delta  of three major European rivers.
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Here's another example. This caused major  delays in the development of the Falcon Heavy.
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Major delays. Big delays. They  were way behind schedule.
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This caused major delays in the  development of the Falcon Heavy.
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Here's our last example.
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This is not the last major  outbreak we're ever gonna see.
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Major outbreak. A huge outbreak with  a lot of people getting sick.
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This is not the last major  outbreak we're ever gonna see.
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Our last word of this video is PERIOD.
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It's a three-syllable word with first-syllable  
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stress. The IH as in vowel is affected by schwa R.  It's not a pure IH but it's a little bit more like  
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EE with the tongue being a little closer to  the roof of the mouth. So it's not ih-- pih--  
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period, but it's pee-- ee-- per-- period.
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As a noun, it means a length of time  during which something happens. The  
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period between Christmas and  New Year's Eve is very busy.  
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As an adjective, it means about a particular  time in history. The actors wore period  
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costumes from the 1800s. Let's see this word  up close and in slow motion one more time.
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And now we'll go to Youglish for five  examples of this word in real situations.
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It's also a time period that I particularly  love. I love the music from the 40's.
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A time period. A set length of time. What's  your favorite time period in history and why?
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It's also a time period that I particularly  love. I love the music from the 40's.
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Here's another example.
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How long is the incubation period for Covid-9?
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Incubation period. The length of time, how many  minutes, days, years, or weeks, for example.
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How long is the incubation period for Covid-9?
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Another example.
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Five percent of Russia was occupied and  often for a very brief period of time.
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A brief period. Not very long.
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Five percent of Russia was occupied and  often for a very brief period of time.
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Here's another example.
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They brought Nathan in, kept him in the  warmer for about 30 days. It was a very  
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scary period for all of us, we weren't  sure if he was going to survive or not.
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A very scary period. Those 30  days, that length of time.
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They brought Nathan in. Kept him in the  warmer for about 30 days. It was a very  
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scary period for all of us we weren't  sure if he was going to survive or not.
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Here's another example.
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Well we've come to the end of our  time, and of course there is a lot  
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of information we couldn't cover in such  a relatively short period of time.
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A short period of time. Not enough to  cover everything they could have said.
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Well we've come to the end of our  time, and of course there is a lot  
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of information we couldn't cover in such  a relatively short period of time.
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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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