English IV The Hobbit Vocabulary

Antiquity

• Roam in search of things to steal or people to attack

• Acting with or showing care and thought for the future

• The ancient past; very old

• A passionate expression of grief or sorrow

Benighted

• Great merriment

• Lacking enlightenment, knowledge, or culture

• Shake; tremble

• A soldier or guard whose job is to stand and keep watch

Carrion

• Forced to leave an office

• Beg or request earnestly and urgently

• Disorder; a loud, confusing nose, especially one caused by a large mass of people

• Decaying or dead animal

Depose

• Forced to leave an office

• An act of attacking or plundering

• Bold or disrespectful behavior

• Anger

Depredation

• Forced to leave an office

• Avery steep rock face or cliff

• A gradual decrease in magnitude or extent

• An act of attacking or plundering

Enmity

• The state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something

• Great merriment

• Make amends for loss or harm suffered; compensate

• Stop or interrupt and detain in conversation; trouble in some other way

Flummox

• Bold of disrespectful behavior

• Confuse greatly; bewilder

• A conference between opposing sides in a dispute, especially a discussion of terms for an agreement; negotiation

• Beyond doubt or reproach

Gall

• Bold or disrespectful behavior

• Shake; tremble

• Stop or interrupt and detain in conversation; trouble in some other way

• Great merriment

Implore

• A state of rest, sleep, or tranquility

• Disorder; a loud, confusing noise, especially one caused by a large mass of people

• Anger

• Beg or request earnestly and urgently

Ire

• A very steep rock face or cliff

• Anger

• An act of attacking or plundering

• The ancient past; very old