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. coup

Explain: An occasion when a group of people takes control of a country, usually by means of military force.

Example: This development in turn would almost certainly provoke another military coup to prevent it from happening.

7. cave

Explain: A large hole in the side of a hill or under the ground.

Example: The cave has two main chambers, with a series of galleries and chambers leading off them.

8. charitable

Explain: Intended to help people who are poor or sick, or who need advice and support.

Example: Making no noise about their charitable and humanitarian inclinations.

9. daring

Explain: Brave enough to do dangerous things.

Example: She is a daring director who is constantly pushing the limits.

10. entertain

Explain: To consider an idea or feeling and allow it to develop in your mind.

Example: The Duke loved to entertain when he was staying at Windsor.

11. transmit

Explain: To send out an electronic signal such as a radio or television signal.

Example: In that technique, an optical fiber is used to transmit light from a specially coated lens.

12. version

Explain: A form of something that is different from other forms or from the original.

Example: The software comes in several versions for different types of computers.

13. wool

Explain: The fine soft curly or wavy hair forming the coat of a sheep, goat, or similar animal, especially when shorn and prepared for use in making cloth or yarn.

Example: Farming provided food, and their sheep provided wool for cloth.

14. switch

Explain: To change from one thing to another, or make something do this.

Example: Reporters are switching their attention to other members of the royal family.

15. simultaneous

Explain: Happening or done at the same time.

Example: In simultaneous announcements, the two men resigned from their jobs.

16.channel

Explain: a system used for sending something from one place or person to another.

Example:E-mail is a channel of communication.

17.courtyard

Explain: an open space that is surrounded completely or partly by a building or group of buildings.

Example: The apartment overlooks a courtyard.

18.enterprising

Explain:good at thinking of and doing new and difficult things, especially things that will make money.

Example: The business was started by a couple of enterprising young women.

19.distorted

Explain: to change the natural, normal, or original shape, appearance.

Example: Her face was distorted by pain.

20.portrait

Explain:a painting, drawing, or photograph of a person that usually only includes the person's head and shoulders.

Example:The queen posed for her portrait.

21. sideways

Explain: to, toward, or from one side.

Example: If you stand sideways it's harder for people to hit you.

22. extinction

Explain: The situation when an animal, plant, or language no longer exists.

Example: The concentration was employed to transform the experimentally obtained absorption into extinction coefficient spectra.

23. despair

Explain: The feeling that a situation is so bad that nothing you can do will change it.

Example: To my utter despair, the car would not start.

24. growl

Explain: To say something in an unfriendly and angry way.

Example: A soft growl ripped through his throat and he wrapped his arm around her waist, pulling her back to him.

25. outlast

Explain: To last longer or continue to be successful for longer than someone or something else.

Example: This system has outlasted many of its rivals.