500+ Academic & Everyday English Words with
Clear Definitions (2025 Edition)
Plenty - A lot
moral - ethical
prescribed - specified
flexitime - A system that permits employees to nominate their start and finish times within a
broad range of available hours.
premises - land and the buildings that are on it
consecutive - following in regular order; successive
Domestic - native to a country, not foreign; relating to the life or affairs of a household; a
household servant
Expenditure - An amount of money spent.
mainstay - a chief support
catering - providing food and services
retail - A business that sells goods or services directly to the public.
territory - land that belongs to a nation but is not a state and is not represented in the national
government
revenue - Income; wealth
fares - money paid for rides in a ship, bus, train, or airplane
expense - Money spent
, posture - the way one holds one's body; a pose or position
Executive - Carries out the laws
Attendant - someone who waits on or tends to the needs of another, especially as a job
immense - huge
Recruitment - actively looking for qualified people to fill a job
Assessment - Evaluation
recruit - to try to persuade someone to work for a company or to join an organization
civic - pertaining to a city or citizen
campus - grounds of a university
polytechnics - Provided higher education for more vocational students
vocational - a course or program that teaches job skills
senate - A council of representatives
discipline - To train to obedience.
postgraduate - a person who takes a college class after he or she has already graduated
socialise - Bring into society, train or guide to be part of a social group
outskirts - The parts far from the center, as of a town.
notably - especially
collegiate - Relating to a college or its students
dome - roof, marabout
hazy - Unclear