10 Beautiful ADVANCED LEVEL words🌹| Improve your Speaking! 🌟 | British English 🇬🇧

Hello there everyone, welcome back to English with Catherine. My name's Catherine and this is my YouTube channel where I teach daily English, pronunciation, culture, natural English for daily use. Today we've got some beautiful words. If someone else uses a really beautiful word when they're speaking, I often stop them and say, wow, beautiful word, because I just can't help it. And often people have done that to me. They'll say, great word, wow, I need to use that. Sorry, I've just had to stop a second because I can hear a rustling and we've had mice recently. It's just another day in this barn, another creature, another animal trying to make entry. Back to the video. Number one, demure, demure. She was so demure. He was so demure. It means elegant, classy, modest, considerate. It can also mean calm and reserved. Our landlady who lives just across the garden from us is very demure. She always wears pearls and she always wears the same diamond rings. She just has this demure energy, a vibe that she gives off. And often when she's speaking, I'm not actually listening to what she's saying. I'm just looking at how she's talking and her body language. And often I have to tell her to repeat something. And she's like, why? Because she's demure. She's so demure. Now for your pronunciation, I want you to practice this sentence. Okay? She had a demure smile that made her very approachable. She had a demure smile that made her very approachable. She had a demure smile that made her very approachable. Number two, quench, quench. I love this word. It means to satisfy thirst. Sometimes tea can be quite thirst quenching. Anyway, the word is quench. It's got a very weh sound in the middle. Qua. We have this sound in question and quest. Here's a sentence for you to practice with that I happen to agree with. Elderflower cordial in the summertime is very thirst quenching. Elderflower cordial in the summertime is very thirst quenching. Number three, melancholy. Melancholy, beautiful word, is a feeling of pensive sadness. It can almost be beautiful. I know that sounds really strange, but melancholy can almost be still and ethereal and beautiful. So here we have a CH that is not a CH. It's not melancholy. It's a silent H. So take away that H so that it sounds like melancholy. I want you to practice this word in this sentence coming up. An air of melancholy surrounded him. An air of melancholy surrounded him. Number four, plethora. Plethora. I hear this being pronounced incorrectly when people say plethora, which actually is very lovely. It does sound like a cleaning product. But the actual word should be pronounced as plethora. It means an abundance of something. So lots of something. In our local library, there is a plethora of classic literature. Thank goodness. So shadow me when I say that again. In our local library, there is a plethora of classic literature, a plethora of books, a plethora of romantic possibilities. Add that word into your vocabulary and you will sound wonderful. Number five, dainty. Dainty. It means delicate, almost fragile, pretty. When I look outside, my landlady has a bird feeder hanging from her window. And very often when I look out, I can see dainty little birds. They're really small ones, like sparrows, robins, my favourite, runs, chaffinches, sparrows. They're very dainty because they're very small. They have a tiny little beak, very little wings. A seagull, for example, is not dainty. A pigeon is not dainty. Other things that could be described as dainty are ballet dancers, china cups and teapots. Shadow me now for this sentence. She took out her dainty lace handkerchief. She took out her dainty lace handkerchief. Number six, cherish. Cherish. To cherish something is to keep it close to your heart and to look after it forever. I will cherish this forever. This was my granny's. This is her locket that she used to wear all the time. Maybe someone's given something to you and you will cherish it forever because it means a lot to you. It has a lot of sentimental value. In this word we have the short i. It's really important to make that sound and not a schwa or anything else. So cherish. That second syllable has got the i sound, that short i. So cherish. Try this sentence now. Shadow me. I will cherish my bridesmaid's wedding gift forever. I will cherish my bridesmaid's wedding gift forever. Here's that sentence a little bit faster. I will cherish my bridesmaid's wedding gift forever. I will cherish my bridesmaid's wedding gift forever. Number seven, amble. Amble. It sounds like what it means. To amble is to walk slowly. There's no hurry to get anywhere. There's no fixed destination that you need to be at in an hour. No, you're just walking for pleasure. So it literally means to walk or move at a very slow pace. A slow relaxed pace. Shadow me now. Every Sunday I like to amble along the riverbank. In British English there's always an opportunity to not just use the word walk. You can give more information about how you walked. It makes it more interesting for the listener because you're making it easier for them to imagine how you were walking. So when you amble, it's different to marching or rushing, okay? It's just really nice to give a little bit more description to your stories when you're speaking. Number eight, buttercup. Buttercup. I had to choose a flower, of course. This word is wonderful for practicing your T's. The T sound is very important for having a British accent, especially the modern RP accent which can be found in the south. A buttercup is a small yellow flower and they often cover whole fields in the springtime. They're absolutely beautiful. I know that they're probably technically a weed, which is an invasive flower or an invasive plant, but I don't care. My favourite flowers are often weeds. When we were young we used to put a buttercup under our friend's chin and ask them, do you like butter? Let me know in the comments if you also did this when you were a child. Here's a sentence for you to practice with. The fields were blooming with buttercups. The fields were blooming with buttercups. Number nine, cascade. Cascade. Oh, what a beautiful word. This word is about movement. Very different to the word amble though. This one is quicker and more chaotic. So this word relates to falling. Often used with water. The way a waterfall falls. We can use this verb. The water cascaded down the cliffside. The stress is on the second syllable, so cascade. Here's a sentence so that you can shadow me. In Scotland, the rivers cascade down the mountains. In Scotland, the rivers cascade down the mountains. Number ten, linger. Linger. This word sounds like what it means, I think. Because if something lingers, it remains. It stays for a long time. For example, I love the way that Chanel number five perfume lingers. And that means the way that it stays on your clothes. It develops when you spray it on your skin. I think it's a sign of good quality if the scent lingers for a while. If you find that it just disappears really quickly. Maybe it's not very good quality. You can use that word in other contexts, but today I'm using it for smell. Here's a sentence for you to shadow me. The smell of her hair lingered in the air. The smell of her hair lingered in the air. Let's try that a bit quicker. The smell of her hair lingered in the air. The smell of her hair lingered in the air. The smell of her hair lingered in the air. Everyone, that's the end. I hope you enjoyed those words. I love it when you put in the comments below some words that you like. I love reading those comments and I always try to reply. Thank you as ever for all your support of my channel. I'm so excited for this year, as I keep saying. I'm wishing you a wonderful day, a wonderful weekend, and I'll see you next Friday for another video. Bye!