| Term | Definition |
| monastery | a building where monks live and work |
| thaws | to melt |
| depths | how deep something is the depth of the river, 2) a very deep point, the depth fo the forest. |
| finance | to supply money for something. |
| province | a part of a country. |
| wheat | a cereal from which flour is made |
| fortress | a castle, citadel. |
| nutrition | giving or receiving of nourishment, i.e. healthy food. |
| scraps | a small piece of something. 2) a scrap of food (informal) a fight |
| swampy | marshy, boggy |
| brewing | to start or develop |
| discern | to see, to make out. |
| rivals | a person or thingthat competes with another or tries to do the same thing. |
| trainee | someone who is being taught or educated in something. |
| betray | to be disloyal to a person, cause etc>> 2) to reveal something that should have been kept secret. |
| detestable | horrible, disgusting, very unpleasant. |
| craved | to desire something strongly, to long for something. |
| havoc | great destruction and damage. |
| loot | stolen things. |
| hygiene | keeping clean and healthy. |
| sharpen | to make something sharper. |
| widespread | common existing in many places. |
| adopted | to take somebody into your family and treat him as your child. |
| brightened | to make or become bright. |
| owed | 1) to have a duty to pay or give something to someone especially money that you have borrowed. 2) to have something because of somebody else. They owed their lives to the pilot's skill. 3) owing to, because of. |