2. Put the following words in the sentences below.

Caldarium – a room with a hot plunge bath, used in a Roman bath complex.

Frigidarium – large cold pool to drop into after enjoying a hot Roman bath.

Tepidarium – the warm bathroom of the Roman baths heated by a hypocaust or underfloor heating system.

Within the building of Roman bath there were three rooms:

• the ____________ is a room for taking hot baths.

• the ____________ is a room for taking warm baths.

• the ____________ is a room for taking cold baths.

• sometimes there were also steam baths: the sudatorium — a moist steam bath, and the laconicum — a dry steam bath much like a modern day sauna.

A large complex would also contain an exercise area (the palaestra), a swimming pool and a gymnasium.