Hobbit Vocab Flashcards by Olivia Buell | Brainscape

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Ominous

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a bad or unpleasant feeling

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Promontory

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A rock projecting into the sea

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Gammer

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an old country woman

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Vagabond

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A person who wanders

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Enmity

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To feel hostile towards someone or something

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Disembark

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To leave a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle

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Waning

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Appearing to decrease in size

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Lintel

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A wooden or metal support across the top of a door or window

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Smouldering

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to burn slowly with smoke but no flame

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Grievous

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very severe or serious

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Cartage

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the transporting of something

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Impenetrable

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impossible to pass through or enter

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Waistcoat

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a vest

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Foreboding

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fearful apprehension

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Stealth

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cautious action or movement

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Pallid

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pale, typically because of poor health

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Figured

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think, consider, or expect to be the case

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Dominion

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sovereignty or control

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Perpetually

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A way that never ends or changes; constantly

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Drear(y)

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Dark, desolate, uncheerful

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Foiled

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To prevent

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Quench

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satisfy one’s thirst

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Laden

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heavily loaded or weighed down

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Prophesying

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to foretell the future

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Gledes

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a type of bird

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Eminent

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Above others in rank; distinguished

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Carrion

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The rotting flesh of an animal

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Covented

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greatly desired or envied

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Decrepit

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weakened by old age

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Amends

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an action taken to show how sorry you are

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Fells

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cut down (a tree)