Hello everyone and welcome to today's lesson. I'm Nysha and you're watching me on your favourite
channel to learn English, Let’s Talk. Look around you, we are all surrounded by different
types of people at home, at work, out on the street, and the one thing we all have in common
is that we each have a different personality, making no two people wholly same. And while
describing people, how many times have you found yourself using simple adjectives such
as clever, talkative, careless, reserved or cheerful to name a few? There are so many
personality adjectives out there, but what if today I taught you to replace these very
adjectives I mentioned, with better, advanced adjectives to mean the same thing? In your
quest to learn English as a second language or simply to expand your vocabulary, today
let's learn advanced words to describe someone personality so that you can uplift your vocabulary
game. Are you ready? Here we go... The first word is “Reticent”, reticent, used to
describe a person who is reserved and doesn’t like to speak much or reveal their feelings.
If you or someone you know prefers to keep their feelings to themselves and is usually
the quiet one in big and rowdy groups when everyone is talking over each other and having
a real banter, then this personality is described as a reticent person. So the next time you
wish to describe someone as rather quiet and reserved replace quiet and reserved with this
word reticent. He or she is a reticent person. Here’s an example sentence, He was extremely
reticent and said little when asked about his opinion on the topic. The second word
we have is “Loquacious”, loquacious, say it with me, loquacious. This is the total
opposite of quiet and reserved. A loquacious person has the habit of talking a lot. Someone
who is excessively talkative, sometimes so much that it can get on your nerves. So instead
of describing such a person as highly talkative, next time use the word Loquacious to describe
them. Here’s an example sentence of what one could have normally said using the first
word and the second word, “When we first met I found her to be quite reserved, but
over time as I got to know her, it surprised me to know how talkative she is. I have to
literally tell her politely to stop talking. Now let’s try something, let’s use the
word reticent and loquacious in this sentences and how would we use it? “When we first
met I found her to be quite reticent, but over time as I got to know her, it surprised
me to know how loquacious she is. I have to literally tell her politely to stop talking.
See doesn’t it sound so much better and makes you sound that much smarter using these
adjectives? We have an advanced word for someone smart too and the word is “Erudite”. If
someone calls you erudite, they are paying you a huge compliment, believe me. Since the
word erudite means intelligent, especially having great academic knowledge. So if you
feel someone is extremely, knowledgeable and academically intelligent, say a class topper,
you know who always comes 1st and passes all the exams with flying colours, the word to
use for them is Erudite. Take a look at some example sentences, “The erudite student
graduated at the top of her class.” “Our erudite tutor was able to answer every question
asked by our class, even the most complex of questions on the subject matter.” So
the word guys is erudite. Now, being an intelligent school or college topper and having a great
deal of academic knowledge is great but sometimes just being bookish intelligent isn't enough,
is it? It’s important that you also have to be street smart. There are times, when
people and situations test you and you need to be a person who is sharp and shrewd, and
at the same time, intelligent. For example in business, you will find that business tycoons
making billions, helming world famous empires, such as Bill Gates, Mukesh Ambani, Jeff Bezos
to name a few, are not only intelligent but also highly street-smart businessmen, having
good judgement of people and situations. So such intelligent and you could say shrewd
and street smart individuals can be called as “Argute”. The word is argute. Let's
have a look at an example sentence of you could use this word, “It was evident that
he was the most argute out of all delegates present at the Business Summit.” The most
smart, the most shrewd and the most street-smart. The next word on our list is the word I like,
“Sanguine”. Just almost flows as poetry, sanguine. If you or someone you know is confident,
cheerful and has an extremely optimistic approach to life, no matter how bad or difficult situations
get… then that person is described as sanguine. Let’s have a look at how this word can be
used in a sentence, “It amazes me how having cancer does not stop him from being sanguine.”
Means someone’s having cancer that would be killing, but the person is still positive,
then they are sanguine. “The coach insisted that he was sanguine about the teams win,
even though his star player was badly injured.” The coach is having that ‘I’m not gonna
give up’ spirit and he is remaining positive even though his star player is injured, so
what, the best of the team will win the match, we have to be optimistic. In all these example
sentence, it’s evident that the person remains positive despite failure or experiencing a
difficult situation in life. So the word to describe the guys, those are inspiring people
and you can call them, Sanguine. Next we have a personality type which is overly inquisitive
about everything and likes to pry into other people's lives, and you know the irritating
type who always ask too many questions... not only just out of interest but you know
almost out of habit. So such a person is referred to as a “Nosy parker” and if you want
to sound a little bit more advanced, then you can call them “officious”. And these
are the type of people you want to keep them at arm’s length, you know, you don’t want
to tell them your business all the time. Let's have a look at an example sentence, “I have
to be careful what I tell my aunt because you know she is such a nosy parker and will
bombard me with questions at any opportunity.” Even a nosy neighbour you might have, so you
could say, “Our next door neighbour is such a nosy parker, she has to know what is happening
in our lives and shows no shame in bluntly asking us.” Such people are so irritating,
aren’t they? Next we have, someone who is impulsive and quick to make decisions without
thinking things through and processing what is happening or possibly not even thinking
about the consequences of the decisions that they are making. In simple terms, we would
refer to as someone like that as careless, but then we're not gonna say careless, these
people are called “impetuous”. Let’s have a look at an example sentence, “Why
does she always have to be so impetuous? She made the wrong decision of marrying someone
she hardly knows and now look at her, she is regretting it.” She should have really
thought it through. And the last word we have for the day is “Gullible”, a gullible
person, what is a gullible person? A gullible person is someone who will believe anything
you say and they can easily be duped or cheated. They are the type of
You know, innocent souls who just believe anybody and think that the world is good,
everybody is good. Let’s have a look at an example sentence, and how you could use
this word, “He was too gullible to realise that it was all a joke. He actually believed
everything to be true.” And later we had to tell him that you know we were just joking,
stop being so gullible. You can also use this word this way, “He still seems to think
I'm so gullible that I'll believe anything he says.” I’m not that gullible. So there
you have it guys, eight advanced English words that you should start using immediately and
replace them with the simple adjective you’ve been using so far to describe someone’s
personality. So I hope you enjoyed today’s lesson, you’ve been watching me on Let’s
Talk and I will be back again very soon with another exciting new lesson until then keep
practicing your English guys because as they say, ‘practice makes perfect’, bye-bye.