10 ADVANCED COLLOCATIONS YOU NEED TO KNOW! C1 & C2 level vocabulary

A great way to learn advanced English vocabulary is in the form of collocations because it's extremely important to know which words naturally go together - something which can be tricky for non-native English speakers.

👩‍🎓 Give yourself the best chance of passing your B2 First, C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency Cambridge English exam.

Expanding your vocabulary is an essential part of your Cambridge English exam preparation, whether your taking the B2 First (FCE), C1 Advanced (CAE) or C2 Proficiency (CPE), and these 10 advanced English collocations will really help you in both the Speaking and Writing papers in order to pass the exam with a high mark.

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Ben Gill
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*Advanced collocations*
1) "To Wholeheartedly agree"
(To completely and enthusiastically agree)
2) "To respectfully disagree"
3) "To forge relationships"
(To make an effort to create strong connection/bond with someone)
4) "To extol virtues"
(To praise positive qualities)
5) "To be extricably linked"
(things which cannot be separated, which have an essential connection)
6) "To render speechless"
(To surprise someone so that they can't speak anything)
7) "To scupper a plan"
(To cause a plan to fail)
8) "Scathing attack"
(Very critical or unkind verbal attack)
9) "Blissfully unaware"
(Not knowing something unpleasant)
10) "Rekindle the passion/love"
(To have strong, positive feelings for someone/something again)

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[alejandropunalfreire]

This content is very useful for all of us who want to improve our english level to become a polyglot

[Domenico]

I wholeheartidly with some people on the fact that we should avail ourselves of the historical events in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes that humanity made in the past.

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Thank you very much for this video, I really learned a lot. I was rendered speechless by the number of beautiful collocations we can form.

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Thank you Ben for your video. It is very useful and I will rewatch it to learn more. Straight to the point.

2:05 Wholeheartedly agree:
I am a passionate podcast listener and I have never come across that expression. But who knows. You know the following phenomena? When you are learning a word, all of a sudden you see it everywhere.

3:27 Vehemently disagree
Respectfully disagree

5:06 To extol virtues

6:0 Use search feature on Twitter (This is very useful, use other apps and websites as well. (For example Youglish)

6:30 To forge relationships

7:00 Inextricably linked.
8:07 To render speechless
I like that expression a lot.

Cheers, Daniel

[slowlearner]

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It's a good motivation, by the by. I would like to reach this bar somehow and someday. "Petit à petit l'oiseau fait son nid".

[alexandermustafin-wiszniew]

Charles Dickens and his extraordinary style of writing are inextricably linked together.