Last Hobbit Flashcards
Willing to make a bold move
Audacious
Very bad or unpleasant
Abominable
Great age
Antiquity
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in a state of pitiful or contemptible intellectual or moral ignorance, typically owing to a lack of opportunity.
Benighted
surround (a place) with armed forces in order to capture it or force its surrender
Besiege
A main branch of a tree
Bough
a room or counter in a station, hotel, or other public building selling light meals or snacks.
Buffet
the transporting of something in a cart or other vehicle.
Cartage
Longer than the most direct way
Circuitous
To walk on all fours
Clamber
Elderly and infirm
Decrepit
Barren
Desolate
Hopelessness
Desperate
A piece of writing
Drought
Hesitating or doubting
Dubious
Perplex someone greatly
Flummox
Causing repulsion or horror. Grisly
Gruesome
A loud and boisterous laugh
Guffaw
Extremely large or great
Immense
Impossible to travel along or over
Impassable
Unable to enter or pass through
Impenetrable
Beg someone earnestly and desperately to do something
Implore
Enchantment or spell
Incantation
Certain to happen
Inevitable
Make someone extremely angry and impatient
Infuriate
Curious or inquiring
Inquisitive
Causing hatred or disgust
Loathsome
A raider
Marauder
Not discovered or known about
Obscure
A fierce or destructive attack
Onslaught
An unregulated heart beat
Palpitation
Miscellaneous articles
Paraphernalia
Never ending or changing
Perpetual
A high pointed piece of rock
Pinnacle
Steal goods from a place
Plunder
a strong, heavy grating sliding up and down in vertical grooves, lowered to block a gateway to a fortress or town.
Portcullis
successful in material terms; flourishing financially.
Prosperous
To steal
Purloin
Satisfies one thirst
Quench
Make amends to
recompense
1.
made necessary by particular circumstances or regulations.
Requisite
a metal container with a sloping hinged lid and a handle, used to fetch and store coal for a domestic fire.
Scuttle
Wrinkle and contract
Shrivel
1.
burn slowly with smoke but no flame.
Smolder
Formal and dignified
Solemn
Betrayal
Treacherous
punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong.
Vengeance
A risky or daring journey
Venture
Annoy frustrate
Vex
Evil character
Villain