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English IV Vocabulary Words

Beowulf Vocabulary Words
1. anathema – anything accursed or consigned to damnation

2. lair – wild animal’s resting place

3. wassail – festive occasion

4. parley – to discuss terms, approach a treaty

5. mail – armor made of rings, chains, or plates 

6. mead – an alcoholic liquor made by fermenting a mixture of honey and water 

7. baleful – gloomy, menacing, 

8. ignominious – shameful; disgraceful; humiliating 

9. heathen – a person who does not belong to a widely held religion as regarded by those that do 

10. hoard  - an accumulation or collection of anything valuable hidden away or laid by for preservation or future use; stock; store

11. depredations – making a prey of, plundering, pillaging, ravaging 

12. hart – a stag; male deer

13. alacrity – briskness or cheerful readiness  

14. dirges – laments for the dead

15. disconsolate – unhappy; comfortless

16. languishing – to lose vigor and vitality

17. suppurating – producing or discharging pus, as a wound

18. quelled – to suppress; put an end to; extinguish

19. virulent – actively poisonous

20. gloaming – twilight; dusk

21. beseeched – to implore urgently

22. accoutrement – apparel, outfit; equipment

23. ensconced – established or settled comfortably; protected; sheltered

24. hale – vigorous and healthy

25. whorled - spiraled

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