Karzai Is Planning To Be There For A Successor

With less than a year left in his final term, President Hamid Karzai insists that he is eager to leave the presidential palace and lead a quieter life. It turns out, though, he may just be moving next door, to a lavish new home yards from the complex that has been the seat of his power for more than a decade.

According to Afghan officials, Mr. Karzai’s new home will be an old, European-style mansion that, once renovations are done, will be roughly 13,000 square feet.

words	meanings	usage
lavish	luxurious; large in quantity and expensive	They lived a very lavish lifestyle.
complex	a group of buildings of a similar type	a sports complex
mansion	a large impressive house	an 18th century country mansion
renovation	repair; reconstruction	buildings in need of renovation

(The New York Times 5 October 2013)