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hello lovely students and welcome back

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to English with Lucy today we are going

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to talk about Advanced English our Focus

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today is on Advanced C1 C2 level verbs

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if you incorporate these verbs into your

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daily spoken English you will impress

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people especially if you say them in a

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very natural nonchalant way now some of

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you may be thinking what is C1 what is

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C2 which level should I be working

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towards I've designed a level test that

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questions we will give you it offers a

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free PDF for this lesson it contains all

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20 verbs that we're going to discuss

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today along with their definitions

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pronunciation and lots of examples and a

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and offers right let's get started with

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the advanced English verbs number one

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to advocate to Advocate this is to

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publicly support or recommend a

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particular policy or action an example

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the celebrity uses her social media

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platform to advocate for a more

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sustainable future or the politician

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advocated for greater economic equality

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for all citizens number two to amplify

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to amplify this is to make something

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louder or stronger to increase the

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effect or impact of something the

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megaphone amplifies the speaker's voice

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and makes it easier to hear or the

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digital marketing campaign Amplified the

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reach and impact of the Brand's message

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number three to articulate to articulate

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this is to express or explain something

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in a clear and effective way or to

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pronounce words clearly and distinctly

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for example the public speaker

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articulated her vision for the future

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with passion and conviction or the

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language learner is practicing

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articulating difficult sounds to improve

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her pronunciation number four to

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comprehend to comprehend this is to

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understand the meaning or significance

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of something the student struggles to

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comprehend the complex theories

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presented in the lecture or the reader

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will have to reread the passage multiple

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times to comprehend the author's message

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number five to convey to convey and this

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is to communicate or Express something

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to others this is often a message or

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information the artist uses her

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paintings to convey her emotions and

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experiences or the journalist conveyed

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the breaking news to the public with

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accuracy and timeliness number six to

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corroborate to corroborate a lot of

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errors in that one to corroborate this

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is to confirm or support a statement

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Theory or find with evidence or

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testimony the witness is able to

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corroborate the victim's account of the

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crime or the scientist corroborated her

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hypothesis with multiple experiments

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number seven

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to decipher to decipher this is to

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discover the meaning of something

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written in a bad or hidden way we can

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use it to talk about converting code or

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symbols or a foreign language into

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understandable language The Traveler

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struggled to decipher the foreign

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language on the menu or the detective

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will have to decipher the hidden meaning

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behind the suspect's cryptic message

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next we have to differentiate to

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differentiate this is to distinguish or

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to recognize the differences between

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things or people the sommelier is able

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to differentiate between the subtle

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flavors in the wine or the teacher

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developed lesson plans to help students

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differentiate between similar Concepts

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number nine to dissect to dissect this

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is to analyze or examine something in

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detail Often by breaking it down into

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its components or parts the scientists

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dissects the specimen to study its

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internal structure or the literary

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critic dissected the novel to explore

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its themes and symbols next we have to a

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face to a face and this is to remove or

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erase something intentionally so it's no

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longer visible or noticeable the

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politician tried to efface the scandal

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from his public record with a new

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campaign or the stormwinds are so strong

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that they are facing the markings on the

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road next number 11 we are over halfway

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there elaborate elaborate I love this

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word it means to add more detail or

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explanation to something often to expand

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or to clarify a concept idea or thought

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the designer elaborated on her original

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concept after receiving feedback from

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the client or I can see you didn't

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understand so I'm going to elaborate on

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my point next we have to exacerbate to

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exacerbate and this is to make a

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situation or problem problem worse the

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drought exacerbated the water shortage

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in the region or the medication side

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effects have exacerbated my existing

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health problems number 13 to extrapolate

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to extrapolate this is to guess or

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estimate or forecast something using

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what you already know for example The

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Economist extrapolates future Trends

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from current economic indicators or we

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tend to predict the future by

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extrapolating from the past next we have

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to facilitate this means to make

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something possible or easier or more

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convenient to do for example the new

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technology will facilitate communication

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among team members or the tutor

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facilitated the development of her

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students skills next we have to

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Galvanize to Galvanize and this is to

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shock or excite someone into taking

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action the tragic event galvanized the

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community to come together and support

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each other or the recent news has

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galvanized the public to demand change

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number 16 is to integrate to integrate

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and this is to combine or blend things

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together in harmonious or really

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functional way the new employee is

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integrating well with the team or the

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architect integrated the old new

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elements of the building design

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seamlessly number 17 is to mitigate to

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mitigate and this is to make something

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less harmful less unpleasant or less bad

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you reduce or you alleviate the severity

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or the impact of something something

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that's often a problem or a negative

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consequence the safety measures in place

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mitigate the risk of accidents or the

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environmental policies have mitigated

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the damage to the ecosystem number 18 is

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to perceive to perceive this is to think

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of something in a particular way or to

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become aware or conscious of something

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through your senses or intuition she

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perceives that her boss is unhappy with

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her work because of his constant

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criticism

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or the artist perceived the beauty of

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Nature and Incorporated it into her work

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number 19 we have reconcile reconcile

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careful with the pronunciation it's not

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reconcile this is normally used

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passively and it's to make people become

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friends again after a breakup or an

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argument it can also mean to find an

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acceptable way of dealing with two ideas

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or concepts that seem to be opposed to

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each other to make two conflicting

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things compatible or consistent with

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each other the mediator is trying to

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reconcile the differences between the

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two parties or the couple reconciled

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after a period of separation and finally

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to scrutinize to scrutinize this is to

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examine or inspect something very

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closely very thoroughly you're combing

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through for mistakes potentially his

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apology was carefully scrutinized by his

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PR team before it was released to the

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public or she scrutinized his essay but

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couldn't find a single error right those

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were your 20 incredibly Advanced English

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verbs as I mentioned they are C1 to C2

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level

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