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Welcome to the A to Z English podcast.
My name is Jack, and today I have a solo episode for you.
And we are stepping into the vocabulary spotlight to talk about the adverb very.
And adverbs are words that modify adjectives or other adverbs and indicate the degree of intensity of the word they modify.
So, if someone is tall, we know that they're tall, but if they're very tall, then we know that there's a higher intensity of tallness.
Today, if I'm going to give a title for today's topic, it would be better than very.
Words that are better than very.
and i think very is an overused word um i could say very overused pun intended um but i think there we have other other choices that we can use to make our speech, our language more interesting, more accurate.
I think it's good to use other words that are a little more on the point, or to the point.
So let's jump into it and look at some of these other examples that we can use instead of using very.
The first one is extremely.
So let's try this. The weather was extremely hot, reaching over a hundred degrees Fahrenheit.
And it comes from the word extreme.
So extreme meaning intense and so extreme extremely is a better choice than just saying the weather was very hot reaching over 100 degrees fahrenheit okay the weather was extremely hot reaching over 100 degrees fahrenheit much more interesting uh it's a much more interesting choice of word um i think
it sounds better and it just makes your your speech more more interesting number two incredibly she was incredibly talented effortlessly playing complex pieces on the piano so an incredibly talented more than just talented incredibly talented okay number three is exceptionally the food at that restaurant
was exceptionally delicious it surpassed all our expectations so it comes from the word exceptional which means excellent amazing exceptionally delicious Number four, remarkably, his recovery after the surgery was remarkably quick.
He was back on his feet in just a few days.
And to be back on your feet means up and walking around.
So a lot of people, when they have surgery, they cannot walk around after that.
But in this case, the recovery was exceptionally, I'm sorry, remarkably quick.
And so the person was up on his feet in just a few days.
Okay, so remarkable, comes from the word remarkable.
And so remarkably quick, which means like noticeably.
like wow i really noticed how quickly you recovered from your surgery number five exceedingly which comes from the word to exceed right exceed is to go beyond expectations the workload at her new job was exceedingly demanding requiring her to work long hours.
So if something is exceedingly demanding, it's beyond the expectation of what you thought the work was going to be.
It's exceedingly demanding.
Much better choice than very demanding.
Utterly comes from the word utter.
The sight of the majestic mountains was utterly breathtaking.
She stood in awe of their beauty.
Wow, this is utterly breathtaking.
Much more interesting choice than very.
Terrible, which, sorry, terribly, which comes from the word terrible.
He felt terribly sorry for his mistake and apologized profusely to his colleague.
Profusely means lots and lots of something.
Okay, so apologized profusely.
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So it means he apologized again and again and again and again.
And terribly, everyone knows the word terrible, the meaning.
So terribly means like an intense degree, a high degree of sorry.
I'm really sorry. I'm very sorry.
I'm terribly sorry for my mistake.
Number eight. Profoundly comes from the word profound.
The novel's ending affected her profoundly.
She couldn't stop thinking about it for days.
So if something is profound, it's really, it penetrates your heart, your soul.
It makes you really, really think about life and life's meaning, something profound.
So, it affected her profoundly, okay?
It really affected her a lot.
So, profoundly. There's a great word for you.
Number nine. Absolutely.
Comes from the word absolute.
The view from the top of the hill was absolutely stunning.
Okay? Okay? Absolutely stunning.
It could be, you know, this one's same meaning as utterly stunning.
Absolutely stunning.
It took her breath away.
And the meaning of to take one's breath away means when you see something that is so beautiful, you feel like you can't breathe for a second.
you lose your breath.
And so we have an expression in English, to take my breath away.
It took my breath away.
And here's our last one for today's episode.
Intensely. And it comes from the word intense.
Their argument became intensely heated, with both parties refusing to back down.
And when we say parties, we just mean both groups of people or both people, okay?
Each person, each party, each person, okay?
We're not talking about a birthday party.
We're talking about parties, meaning each person or each group.
So their argument became intensely heated, okay?
So they got into a really, really high degree, very intense argument, an intensely heated argument.
And neither person would back down.
Back down means like give in to the other person's argument, you know, except what the other person is saying.
So, if I back down, I say, okay, you're right, I'm wrong.
Okay, that's to back down.
But if I don't back down, I continue saying, I'm right, you're wrong.
And then the other person says, no, you're wrong, and I'm right.
And you have this kind of very intense argument.
So, intensely. So, let's just review today's better examples than very.
extremely, incredibly, exceptionally, remarkably, exceedingly, utterly, terribly, profoundly, absolutely, and intensely.
And these sentences demonstrate how each word can be used to convey different degrees of intensity or emphasis in various contexts.
So, there you go. Hopefully, this is useful for you.
And you can look in the show notes to find the vocabulary with the examples.
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