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Hotel chapters 31-34
Vocabulary from chapters 31 - 34
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| pavilions | a very large building with big open areas used for sports and other public events |
| provisioned | to provide someone or something with a lot of food and supplies, especially for a journey |
| collegiate | relating to college or a college |
| dignified | behaving in a calm and serious way, even in a difficult situation, which makes people respect you |
| reluctantly | slow and unwilling |
| abruptly | suddenly and unexpectedly |
| bleak | without anything to make you feel happy or hopeful |
| conspirators | someone who is involved in a secret plan to do something illegal |
| vandalism | the crime of deliberately damaging things, especially public property |
| looting | stealing things, especially from shops or homes that have been damaged in a war or riot |
| ravaged | damaged very badly |
| frail | weak and thin due to being old or ill |
| tarnished | describes something that is dull and has lost its colour |
| delicately | easily damaged or broken, fragile |
| trample | to behave in a way that shows that you do not care about someone’s rights or feelings |
| tidy | clean and neatly arranged with everything in the right place |
| genial | friendly and happy |
| plush | very comfortable, expensive, and of good quality |
| gauge | to judge how people feel about something or what they are likely to do |
| seldom | very rarely or almost never |
| gleaned | to find out information slowly and with difficulty |
| evidently | used to say that something is true because you can see that it is true |