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Mr. Bosch's Hobbit Words
1st Vocab Quiz of The Hobbit
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Literature
11th Grade
04/19/2010

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Audacious
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extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless: an audacious explorer.
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Remuneration
Definition
 reward or pay for services:  
He received little remuneration for his services.
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Incantation
Definition
the chanting or uttering of words purporting to have magical power.
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Venerable
Definition
commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of reverence, as because of high office or noble character: a venerable member of Congress.
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Guffawing
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a loud, unrestrained burst of laughter.
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Smote
Definition
to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon: She smote him on the back with her umbrella.
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Precipice
Definition
a cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face.
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Unimpeachable
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above suspicion; impossible to discredit; impeccable: unimpeachable motives.
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Bulbous
Definition
Resembling a round shape; rounded or swollen: a bulbous nose; a bulbous stem base.
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Lament
Definition
to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence.
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Hemorrhage
Definition
a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
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Requisite
Definition
required or necessary for a particular purpose, position, etc.; indispensable: the requisite skills of an engineer.
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Mutton
Definition
the flesh of sheep, esp. full-grown or more mature sheep, used as food.
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Martyr
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a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
a person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or cause: a martyr to the cause of social justice.
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Mantlepiece
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a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
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Formative
Definition
pertaining to formation or development: a child's most formative years.
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Botany
Definition
the science of plants; the branch of biology that deals with plant life.
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Devour
Definition
to swallow or eat up hungrily, voraciously, or ravenously.
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Devout
Definition
devoted to divine worship or service; pious; religious: a devout Catholic.
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Dwarf
Definition
a being in the form of a small, often misshapen and ugly, man, usually having magic powers.
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Genre
Definition
 class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like: the genre of epic poetry; the genre of symphonic music.
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Plunder
Definition
to take wrongfully, as by pillage, robbery, or fraud: to plunder a piece of property.
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Scuttle
Definition
to run with quick, hasty steps; scurry.
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Mince

 

Definition
to cut or chop into very small pieces.
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Rune
Definition
any of the characters of certain ancient alphabets, as of a script used for writing
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