Using precise adjectives in exams

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to day by reading

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and watching film series and just

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keeping your own

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vocabulary dictionary really but as many

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of you are preparing for the cambridge

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english exams

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you may need some help and i'm happy to

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help and these adjectives will really

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give you

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an advantage in the exams okay so let's

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do this

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so the first adjective we're looking at

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today is a synonym

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of important important is a good

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adjective but it's not very impressive

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so a good alternative is paramount

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so paramount basically means important

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or very important

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but as i said if you can use this in the

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exam it will really

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impress the examiner let's have a look

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at an example sentence

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reducing carbon emissions is paramount

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in order to combat climate change

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okay so that's one of the most uh

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popular subjects

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in the cambridge english exams it seems

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to be in almost

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every exam in some form or another

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environment and climate change

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so paramount paramount here is used

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instead of important

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another way we use