Vocab

• Cantankerous – Bad-tempered
• Pong – Smelly
• Sacrosanct – Sacred
• Diffident – Shy
• Malevolent – Malicious or evil
• Voracious – Hungry
• Eradicate – Get rid of
• Ardour – Passion
• Austere – Strict
• Ruminate – Think about or contemplate

Outside the abandoned stadium lay miles of barren land, lacking entirely the busy daily bustle that once occupied the city. Upon the vacant table, torn up ground scattered its surface, the chairs not bothered to pushed in, as if the people that once sat there had left in a great rush or simply just disappeared. Beyond the table the desolate stadium lay, unused by life with the exception of dirty moss and weeds. In the air hung a haunting silence waiting to be disrupted by even the smallest whisper of noise.