It's day four of your 30-Day Vocabulary Challenge. One video, every day for 30 days to help you master 105 intermediate English words. We're taking words from the academic word list, so these are words you'll need to know if you're preparing for the IELTS or TOEFL exam, but also if you read or watch news in English or have conversations with native speakers.
In other words, these words are useful. So grab your friends have them join you in this challenge and let's do this. As always, if you like this video, or you learned something new, please like and subscribe with notifications. It really helps.
There's a download to go with this video. A list of all of the words with definitions and sample sentences, as well as quizzes to make sure you're really getting and remembering these words. You can get that download by following this link, or the link in the video description. Today, we're learning four words: ESTIMATE, PROCESS, RESEARCH, and METHOD. And we're looking at the different ways these words are used in various situations. For each word, you'll get the definition, we'll go over the pronunciation, you'll get to see the pronunciation up close and in slow motion, and we'll have five examples from real life English.
First the word ESTIMATE.
This word has two different pronunciations. Estimate or estimate. Both with first syllable stress. Estimate.
Estimate. As a verb, it has first syllable stress. Estimate. It means to roughly calculate, to judge, to give or form a general idea about the value, size, or cost of something. They estimated that the distance was about three miles. As a noun, it can be estimate or estimate. As a noun, this is a guess that you make based on the information you have about the size, amount, etc.
Of something. According to government estimates, current oil reserves are 10 percent lower than they were a year ago. Let's look again at this word up close and in slow motion.
And now we'll go to Youglish for five examples of this word in real situations.
And you can see we, estimate it with great precision.
Estimate. Guess at with great precision. Oh, they're very good at estimating apparently, they can get very close to the actual number. And you can see, we estimate it with great precision. Here's another example.
