Today we're gonna learn some advanced vocabulary.

So let's get started today.

We're looking at this word scrutiny.

Pronunciation.

Don't say scrutiny, say scrutiny.

What happens to the Tin?

We pronounce it like this s like when you say kitten or button, you make a stop T and then connect to the N link it to the N sound S mm Scrutiny.

And what does it mean?

It means critical examination like criticism.

If someone is under scrutiny, that means someone is critically examining them like they're facing criticism.

Let's hear some examples of the word scrutiny.

They are impervious to the scrutiny of the feds there.

I did not make that call without careful consideration, scrutiny of the facts and tremendous angst over what the ramifications of that call might be.

I don't think I was ever really cut out for public life such scrutiny.

So I'm used to being held under scrutiny.

However, I'm under the careful scrutiny of a group of young upstarts who call themselves the alarm clock.

Will any of them stand close scrutiny?

No example, Joe Biden, the president, Joe Biden is under scrutiny.

That means people are criticizing him.

People are examining what he's doing in a critical way.

He's under scrutiny.

And if it's a lot, we say heavy, he's under heavy scrutiny.

The idea he's facing a lot of criticism, he's under heavy scrutiny.

Remember, pronunciation, not scrutiny but scrutiny.

He's under heavy scrutiny because he's the president because he's the president, he's under scrutiny.

He's under heavy scrutiny.

Let's practice.

Is he under heavy scrutiny?

That's right.

He's under heavy scrutiny.

Why, why is he under heavy scrutiny?

That's right.

He's under heavy scrutiny because he's the president.

People always look at, observe and examine what the president does in a critical way.

That's scrutiny.

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