 One of the challenges that students face in their creative writing stories is they don't use a range of words and a range of vocabularies that will enable them to access the higher marks. Often lots of teachers including myself find that when it comes to creative writing perhaps one of the biggest issues that we have with students' work is the not showing off the range of words, the range of vocabulary and the ambitious words that they know which will bring their stories to life. So what I want to do within this video is to present with you guys 10 ambitious words that you can use in any creative writing stories and if you use these words not only will you impress your teacher but also you're going to see the quality of your writing go up, your essays are going to sound really impressive and also the most important thing is these words are actually easy to understand. Just make sure you use them and spell them correctly consistently and after a while you're going to find that they come to you almost second nature. They're going to come to you and you're going to have these moments of inspiration and you'll be thinking wow I can't believe my ambitious words and my ambitious vocabulary has grown. So I'm going to go over with you guys 10 ambitious words beginning with their meanings but also presenting to you how you can use them and in what context and examples that you can use them okay. So let's begin with the first word which is a really beautiful way to describe the color white, alabaster and of course alabaster simply means white. Now you can use it for example to describe the color of a floor say a nice marble floor right. You can describe the smooth alabaster floor for example also if you have like say a character is very pale you can describe the alabaster skin. That's ambitious word number one. Number two is the word cleave which means cut and you can for example state the boat cleaved through the water okay really powerful ambitious word. Number three brazen which means bold and a good example of how you can use this in context is brazenly she stepped forward boldly she stepped forward right so replace the word bold with just brazen makes a world of difference. Number four wretched which means unhappy for example the wretched children if for those of you that studying Christmas Carol the wretched children ignorance and want. Number five cacophony one of my favorite ambitious words and it means a mix of noise for example when you're describing say a really busy street in say for example a quite large city metropolis like London you can talk about the cacophony of bee ping horns okay these loud clamorous noises. Third number six furtive which means secretive for example moving furtively the mouse snuck in okay you can move quite furtively right you can move and act quite furtively which just means secretly. Number seven duplicitous which simply means two faced okay and for example I'm going to use an example describing one of my favorite characters in one of Shakespeare's plays Macbeth so Macbeth duplicitously deceived Duncan and there's really nice alliteration used there as well okay so duplicitously word number seven or duplicitous number eight candle which means honesty okay for example the politician spoke with surprising candle said nobody ever okay but that's an example in which you can use the word candle number nine crest fallen which means disappointed for instance he stumbled away crest fallen right again a really really nice adjective that you can use to bring some of your characters and your stories to life and word number 10 ambitious word number 10 is pandemonium which means chaos for example you can talk about say a football match which descends into chaos the match descended into pandemonium and that's really it when it comes to the ambitious words you can use alabaster cleave brazen wretched cacophony furtive duplicitous candle crest fallen and pandemonium so of course go off try to include it in your stories the more you you include them and the more you repeat these words the more it's going to become second nature and intrinsic to you I hope you found this useful and thank you so much for your attention