64 Pedestrian ambler, hiker, extraordinary, Up and down the main

perambulator, unusual, road there was an

A person walking rambler, walker uncommon, unending stream of cars,
rather than alpinist, different, buses, tongas and
travelling in a backpacker, exceptional, bicycles while the
vehicle. climber, interesting pavement thronged with
mountaineer
pedestrians.

65 Peninsula arm, cape, embark, The south-eastern plains

foreland, leave, of the peninsula,
A piece of land headland, disconnect, especially favoured by
almost ness, point, unfasten climate and soil,
surrounded by promontory, spit developed important
water or centres of rural and
projecting out
urban activity.
into a body of
water.
66 Perpetually always, eternally, never He speaks to all nations
ever, and is perpetually
In a way that everlastingly, modern, said Emerson.
never ends or evermore,
changes; forever,
constantly. forevermore,
indelibly,
permanently
67 Pomp solemnity, ritual, conservativeness, Before his marriage,
display moderation, Maulvi Abul Barkat,
Ceremony and spectacle, modesty, restraint, alias Abul, used to live
splendid display. ostentation, simplicity, in comfort, even pomp.
splendour understatement
grandeur, elegance,
grandness gracefulness,
magnificence, tastefulness
majesty

68 Preoccupied absorbed, alive, attentive, Young Grayson, in

daydreaming, aware, conscious, particular was careless
Engrossed in dreaming, dreamy, engaged, heads-up, and preoccupied.
thought; engrossed, heedful, mindful,
distracted. faraway, intent, observant,
pensive, heedless, observing, open-
inattentive, eyed, sharp,
insensible, vigilant
oblivious
69 Prevailed overcame, swept collapsed, failed, Political and personal
squeaked, squeezed flopped, folded, ambitions are starting to
Prove more contended, vied washed out, prevail over economic
powerful or succeeded floundered, interests.
superior. breezed, romped struggled