Surround: be all around
Thrive: flourish, prosper
Abandon: leave
Plague: disease
Found: set up
Appoint: give a role
Consecrate: make sacred
Grant: give
Charter: organizational document
Timber: made of wood
Parliament: legislative body
Behead: decapitate
Issue: publish
Demolish: destroy
Riot: violent public disorder
Host: (event) hold
Unveil: reveal for the first time
Immigrant: foreign resident
Saltire: diagonal cross
Superimpose: overlay
