Vocabulary

gimmick - attention grabber, a scheme designed to attract attention or increase appeal

page 13 Jared couldn't help thinking about their tiny apartment in New York and their family before the divorce. He wished this was some kind of gimmicky vacation and not real life.

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dumbwaiter - a small elevator consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.

page 25 "Look." Simon bent down to touch a small sliding door set into the wall.
"It's a dumbwaiter," Mallory said. "Servants used it to send trays of breakfast and stuff upstairs. there must be another door like this in one of the bedrooms."

page 29 picture

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gaping - a wide opening; gap

page 48 The attic level was a vast room with a slanted ceiling and a gaping hole in the floor on one end.

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compartment - a separate room, section, cubicle, booth, screened-off area

page 54 Jared got down on his knees and began to push all over the floor of the trunk, threading his fingers through the dust to look for seams that might allow his to pull an unseen compartment open.