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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