Word                                                              Meaning

• Extensive –          large, huge
• Mansion –           a large house
• Emigrate –          move abroad to settle permanently
• Amateur –          taking part in an activity for pleasure, not as a job
• Excursion –         a short journey or trip as a leisure activity
• Realism      –       a way of thinking and acting based on facts rather than on hopes
• Evaluate –           assess
• Portraiture –      the act or art of making portraits (drawing)
• Lumber –           move in a slow, heavy, awkward way
• Wilderness –      an uncultivated, uninhabited  region
• Culmination –    the highest point of something
• Reinvention-      the action through which something is changed  that it appears to be entirely new.
• Squander –        waste something (money, time, supplies)
• Relentless –        unceasingly intense, harsh
• Contemporary –   living or occurring at the same time
• Sophisticate –      (of machines) advanced or complex
• Ventilation –         the provision of fresh air in a room or building
• Contend –             assert something as a position in an argument
• Ingenuity –           the quality of being clever
• Lethal –                 sufficient to cause death
• Dementia-           a chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease
• Lamenting –         a passionate expression of grief or sorrow
• Clamour –            a loud and confused noise (shouting noise)
• Rhetoric –             the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing
• Demographic-     relating to the structure of population