assembly hall; meeting place; venue; site; grounds
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
massing (of troops); gathering
hot (to the touch); passionate (feelings, etc.); ardent; hot (e.g. temper); zealous; enthusiastic; intense
middle of summer; height of summer; midsummer
to pile up; to heap up; to stir up; to enliven; to bring to a climax
white heat; incandescence; (emitting) white light; becoming excited; getting heated (e.g. of a discussion); reaching a climax
pattern; figure; state; condition; conjecture of the current situation; the way it seems; model