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  • Hey guys, welcome back to Let's Talk, my name is Meera. Well today I am going to ask you

  • guys to replace four extremely basic words from your own daily language and you know

  • what let's start using wiser, wittier and fun words, right? So which are these four

  • words that I've got for you? Wellgood”, “bad”, “sadandhappyand I

  • really think using these words all the time has made our language really boring, don't

  • you guys think so? So guys let us begin, “how was the food?” You would say, “it was

  • good.” How was your test? You would say again, “it was good.” Well is that it?

  • Is that the only word we know? Here is how you can use different words just for the same

  • word. For example if you want to say that someplace is a good looking place, you know

  • nice place, good looking place or some clothes are good looking clothes and want to pass

  • a compliment to someone, right? Then you can always use the word, “classy”, “hey,

  • that dress is looking classyoryou are looking classy in that dress”, well

  • here's another one, when anything surprises you to a point that it takes your breath away,

  • wow! And you're thinking to yourself, oh wow this is so good that I can't even speak properly,

  • well you can use the wordbreathtakingover here, for example, “this brownie is

  • breathtaking”, “this view is breathtaking”. Let us quickly compare and see howgood

  • looks versus other words, “this view is so goodand nowthis view is breathtaking”,

  • isn't this much more expressive? Well let's take a look at another wordmarvellous”.

  • Here whenever anything impresses you a lot, whether it is about sports, a speech, an idea

  • that has put a smile on your face and an impression in your mind, you can always say, “Jill

  • that is a marvellous idea”, “Samantha, how did you come up with such a marvellous

  • speech?” See how a simple sentence can turn into an impressive one. Well guys now let

  • us see what else fits in the wordgood”. Well when certain suggestions, piece of advice

  • probably, relationships or even jewelry are so good, you would want to take care of them

  • and preserve them properly, right? And express, to express this in a much better way you can

  • use the wordvaluableinstead of sayingso good”, “thank you for such a valuable

  • advice”, “my relationship with my daughter is valuable”. Guys doesn't this feel positive?

  • Getting to know interesting words to replace the old ones, superb! Let us move forward

  • with the next word and the next word is. “bad”. Now guys so many things happen or so many

  • things can be bad, isn't it? Experience, food, clothes, someone's behavior as well right,

  • don't you think so? Now for instance you want to say that someone's behavior was bad, bad

  • behavior, you can always say it in this way, “Ron, your behavior was badinstead now

  • we're going to replace it, “Ron your behavior was unacceptable”. Another word for bad

  • attitude, “your attitude towards life is lousywhich means poor attitude or annoying

  • attitude that doesn't help you go any further in life. Let us say that you want to talk

  • about food okay, “the pasta we ate yesterday was awful”, “the first time I baked a

  • cake it was awful”. Well sometimes you want to tell somebody or someone that you had a

  • bad experience, you can always use the wordroughor a rough day when nothing goes

  • right, right? “Our flight experience was rottenit's just another example. It's

  • an informal way of expressing bad experience. “The character in that movie was bad”,

  • now replace thisthe character in that movie was appalling”, “the cat was suffering

  • from appalling injuries”. Well this is another way of using bad. Now let us move on to something

  • happy and the wordhappyitself. So I think it is time for us to start using different

  • words to express happiness even, why? Because there are times when you feel happy when things

  • go the way you wanted them to be. So here's how you can say it, “I got lucky today

  • orit is your lucky day, enjoy the free burger”, that is one type of happiness,

  • don't you think so? Just being lucky and feeling happy about it. There's another type, when

  • you want to express happiness that gives you tears and excitement at the same time, so

  • you can say, “the book I recently read, was ecstatic”, “the pregnancy news made

  • me feel ecstatic”. Now when you're overjoyed after achieving something or anything and

  • you feelelated”, for exampleafter receiving the best actor award she was elated”,

  • “I'm simply elated to see my progress”. In the next word which isdelighted”,

  • you want to say or express how glad you are to meet someone, to be at some place or to

  • receive something… “We are delighted to serve you tonight”, “I am delighted to

  • meet you”. Now guys the next one is, whenever you feel sudden excitement or sudden happiness,

  • especially when you expected it the least you could always use the word, “thrilled”.

  • “I was thrilled to go on that ride”, “his surprise, thrilled her”. So we have yet

  • again managed to turn a simple wordhappy”, into a much expressive version of the same

  • word, don't you think so? Now with the same idea we're going to move to our last similar

  • word which is similarly overused by all of us and that is, “sad”. Come I'll make

  • this word much more happening for you guys today. Now usually there are times when the

  • weather becomes dark all of a sudden with the clouds so dark outside the window and

  • people are not, you know enjoying the way they usually do, right? Most importantly you

  • yourself start feeling less joyful, then you can always use the word, “gloomy”. “The

  • weather is so gloomy today”, “no matter what music I listen to it still feels gloomy”.

  • Now guys there are also times when there is a lot of tension without any actual reason

  • or proper reason, what can you do, what can you use? At that point you're actually feeling

  • melancholy”. “The music is so melancholy, let us change it”, “I could sense the

  • melancholy around him”. When something is very unpleasant, right? When you don't like

  • something, you can always saywoeful”. “The class expressed a woeful silence when

  • the results were announced”, “she was looking extremely woeful with tears in her

  • eyes”. Now this one I'm sure most of us know and probably used, “blue”. Especially

  • it is for, when your mood is off and not just because of weather this time you know, this

  • is because you're just simply feeling sad about anything it could be about work, it

  • could be about results, anything so you are basically feelingblue”. “I'm going

  • to eat a bar of chocolate because I'm feeling blue”. Now guys, at times using fashionable

  • words in place of boring words can actually help you just the way it helps me every day.

  • But that is all for the day guys, I will be back with another interesting topic that helps

  • you better your English, until then make sure you practice and use these words guys, alright?

  • Well this is Meera signing off for the day, ciao.

Hey guys, welcome back to Let's Talk, my name is Meera. Well today I am going to ask you

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