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The city was restoring an old, run-down building. The deserted building had once been an
elegant hotel. Nothing in the grand hotel had been simple or dowdy. The once beautiful
building would no longer stand dilapidated and deserted.
A. Based on the passage write down what you think each word means.
1. elegant ____________________________________________________________
2. dowdy ____________________________________________________________
3. dilapidated ____________________________________________________________
inhabitable uninhabitable