This document provides definitions and examples for the vocabulary word "abandon". It defines abandon as to leave a person or thing. Examples show abandonment used when passengers left a sinking ship and when someone felt a sense of abandonment after being left out. An abandoned cat is described as looking sad. Related words and a discussion question are also included to help illustrate how and when abandon is used.

1. Vocabulary Evaluation

2.  Definition: to leave a person or thing
 The passengers had to abandon their ship
because it was sinking.

3.  Abandonment (noun) – the action or fact of
feeling or being abandoned.
 Sentence: I felt a sense of abandonment
after my friends went out without me.

4.  Abandoned- adjective- desserted
 The recently abandoned cat looks very sad.

5.  1. keep
 2. continue; begin, start.
 3. retain.

6.  I want to abandon / retain my English after I
leave ELS.
 Discuss: have you ever been to an abandoned
amusement park? What was it like?