Most Common Words in English - Part Six

Yield: to produce, to give, to grant

Zealous: enthusiastic

Abandon: give up

Achieve: get

Stability: continuity

Strength: power

Effort: attempt

Strike: hit

Escape: to go free

Abroad: in or to a foreign country

Prevention: safety

Excess: surplus, more than required

Efficiency: expertness

Unfortunately: unluckily

Expensive: costly

Additional: extra

Fundamental: basic

Priority: urgency

Illiterate: unable to read and write

Adopt: to take up and make one's own

Sacrifice: offering something precious

Wrap: to cover, put into

Cease: stop

Vindictive: revengeful

Lavishly: wastefully

Vocabulary-Building: Part Fourteen

Extravagant: lavish in spending money

Kneel: to go down on knees

Entagle: to twist together into a confusing mass, (opp. untangle)

Indicate: show the way

Onlookers: spectators

Resist: to remain firm against, stop firmly

Survive: to remain alive

Martyr: one who chooses death for a cause

Fed-up: unable to tolerate

Resolve: to decide firmly, to find a solution

Backward: behind in progress or development

Audience: a gathering of listeners

Keenly: eagerly

Deserted: left alone, abandoned

Pitiable: arousing pity

Interference: meddling

Irreparable: impossible to repair

Exertion: effort, trouble, tiredness

Basking: warming

Confront: to come face to face with

Console: comfort

Adamant: unbending, tough

Manifesto: a public declaration of political intentions

Inner desire: wish of the heart

Starve: appetite

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