Today is our third day in our 30-day vocabulary challenge for 2021. One new video a day for the next 30 days to help you learn and boost your vocabulary. We're learning 105 words.
We're taking our 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. These are intermediate words and they are useful, so grab a friend have them join the challenge with you and let's do this. As always, if you like this video, or you learned something new, please like and subscribe with notifications, it means a lot.
We're on day three and we're learning four words today. I do have a download for you a list of all 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's words are: significant, role, major, and period.
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 cover the pronunciation, you'll get to see up close footage of the mouth saying this word, and we'll also have five examples from real life English.
Our first word is SIGNIFICANT.
Significant. It's a four-syllable word with second syllable stress. Make sure those unstressed syllables are flatter, lower in pitch. Sig-nificant. Ficant. Ficant. Significant.
As an adjective, it means large enough to be noticed, or have an effect.
Very important, there's a significant difference between prices in the two stores.
Let's again see this word up close and in slow motion.
And now we'll go to Youglish for five examples of this word in real situations.
