1.abandon

Explain: To leave someone when you should stay with them and take care of them.

Example: George almost persuaded me to abandon my studies and join him.

2.abuse

Explain: To treat someone in a cruel or violent way.

Example: Those with access to private information must not abuse that trust.

3.harsh

Explain: Harsh conditions or places are unpleasant and difficult to live in.

Example: This was Tim's first experience of the harsh realities of life.

4.settlement

Explain: A place where people have come to live permanently, usually when there were very few people living there before.

Example: They discovered the remains of an early Anglo-Saxon settlement.

5.spray

Explain: If you spray a liquid, or it sprays, it is forced out of a container through an opening into the air.

Example: Farmers have to apply for permits to spray from the air.

6.barrel

Explain: A round wooden, metal, or plastic container with a flat top and bottom, used for storing liquids.

Example: Their customers drink a million barrels of beer a year.

7.quintuplet

Explain: A baby who is born at the same time as four other babies in its family.

Example: A story about the birth of quintuplets shouldn't send all expectant couples scurrying to buy 5 cribs.

8.breeze

Explain: a light wind

Example: The curtains fluttered gently in the breeze.

9.generate

Explain: To make a lot of people express feelings or opinions about something.

Example: More and more of the money in state budgets is generated by state and local lotteries.

10.orient

Explain: To have a particular emphasis or goal.

Example: The news programs are increasingly oriented to what we call “infotainment.”

11.outskirts

Explain: The areas of a town or city that is farthest away from the center.

Example: Camera crews spent two days filming in the red light district on the outskirts of Bolton town center.

12.dust

Explain: Very small pieces of dirt that cover surfaces inside buildings like a powder.

Example: The dictionaries were covered in dust.

13.resource

Explain: Something you can use to help you to achieve something, especially in your work or study.

Example: The company plans to exploit the plentiful resources of fish in the area.

14. retreat

Explain: To avoid a dangerous, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation.

Example: The later middle Ages were a period when royal feudal rights are usually considered to have been in retreat in England.

15. tame

Explain: A tame animal has been trained to stay calm when people are near it, because it is used to being with them.

Example: Children enjoy the farm setting and the tame farm animals.

16. gaze

Explain: Someone’s way of looking at someone or something.

Example: As he spoke, his gaze remained fixed on the letter in his hand. 

17. formidable

Explain: Very impressive in size, power, or skill and therefore deserving respect and often difficult to deal with.

Example: The company has built up a formidable reputation for quality.

18. prior

Explain: Happening, existing, or done before a particular time.

Example: The plane seemed to catch fire a few seconds prior to taking off.

19. practical

Explain: Involving or relating to real situations and events.

Example: We aren't very practical so we usually hire someone to do the major repairs.

20. movement

Explain: A group of people who share the same goal and work together to achieve it.

Example: The agreement governs the free movement of goods between countries.

21. layout

Explain: The way in which the different parts of something are arranged.

Example: You'll get accustomed to the layout of the keyboard.

22. maintenance

Explain: Work that is done to keep a building, machine, or piece of equipment repaired and in good condition.

Example: Performing maintenance under such trying conditions was also a challenge.

23. displace

Explain: To force someone to leave their own country and live somewhere else.

Example: Investment in the nationalized industries has simply displace private investment.

24. partition

Explain: A wall, screen, or piece of glass used to separate one area from another in a room or vehicle.

Example: Several computational algorithms have been proposed to partition the genome.

25. domestic

Explain: Relating to people's homes and family life

Example: You go to the same terminal for domestic and international flights.