| awe-inspiring | respectful, giving an inspiring feeling |
| dormitory town | a place from which people travel to work to city |
| outer | outside, very far from the center |
| peripheral | at the edge of sth |
| high-rise | a tall modern building |
| oppressive | przygniatający |
| ooze | flow slowly out of sth through small opening/hole |
| thronged | crowded |
| gem | jewel |
| lime | calcium |
| unscathed | without injuries |
| haphazard | without previous plan |
| swamp | marsh; soft-ground area |
| vendor | seller |
| pavement | sidewalk |
| glut | redundancy, superabundance |
| be in for | doświadczyć czegoś |
| jostle | knock, push roughly to get more space in crowd |
| hawker | straganiarz |
| tacky | shitty; bad style; lepki |
| dub | to name (due to sth) |
| carry sth off | zdobywać coś |
| subconscious | podświadomość |
| exhilarating | making joy and happy |
| sheer | zwykły ([word] nonsense) |
| traversed | przemierzyć |
| overhead | over your head |
| prey | booty, victim (of an animal) |
| soaring | strzelisty |
| straw | słoma |
| broom | mietła |
| urgent | pilny |
| linger | remain |
| emphasize | podkreślać |
| willpower | siła woli |