Last Hobbit Flashcards

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Willing to make a bold move

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Audacious

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Very bad or unpleasant

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Abominable

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3
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Great age

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Antiquity

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1.

in a state of pitiful or contemptible intellectual or moral ignorance, typically owing to a lack of opportunity.

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Benighted

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5
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surround (a place) with armed forces in order to capture it or force its surrender

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Besiege

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6
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A main branch of a tree

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Bough

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a room or counter in a station, hotel, or other public building selling light meals or snacks.

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Buffet

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the transporting of something in a cart or other vehicle.

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Cartage

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9
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Longer than the most direct way

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Circuitous

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10
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To walk on all fours

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Clamber

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11
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Elderly and infirm

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Decrepit

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12
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Barren

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Desolate

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13
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Hopelessness

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Desperate

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14
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A piece of writing

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Drought

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15
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Hesitating or doubting

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Dubious

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16
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Perplex someone greatly

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Flummox

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17
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Causing repulsion or horror. Grisly

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Gruesome

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18
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A loud and boisterous laugh

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Guffaw

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19
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Extremely large or great

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Immense

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20
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Impossible to travel along or over

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Impassable

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21
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Unable to enter or pass through

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Impenetrable

22
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Beg someone earnestly and desperately to do something

23
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Enchantment or spell

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Incantation

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Certain to happen

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Inevitable

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Make someone extremely angry and impatient
Infuriate
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Curious or inquiring
Inquisitive
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Causing hatred or disgust
Loathsome
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A raider
Marauder
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Not discovered or known about
Obscure
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A fierce or destructive attack
Onslaught
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An unregulated heart beat
Palpitation
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Miscellaneous articles
Paraphernalia
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Never ending or changing
Perpetual
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A high pointed piece of rock
Pinnacle
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Steal goods from a place
Plunder
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a strong, heavy grating sliding up and down in vertical grooves, lowered to block a gateway to a fortress or town.
Portcullis
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successful in material terms; flourishing financially.
Prosperous
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To steal
Purloin
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Satisfies one thirst
Quench
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Make amends to
recompense
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1. | made necessary by particular circumstances or regulations.
Requisite
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a metal container with a sloping hinged lid and a handle, used to fetch and store coal for a domestic fire.
Scuttle
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Wrinkle and contract
Shrivel
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1. | burn slowly with smoke but no flame.
Smolder
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Formal and dignified
Solemn
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Betrayal
Treacherous
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punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong.
Vengeance
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A risky or daring journey
Venture
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Annoy frustrate
Vex
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Evil character
Villain