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Abided
Part of Speech: (v.)
Def: To accept or act in accordance with a rule or decision.
Syn: Obey, acknowledge.
Ant: Flout, disobey
Amidships
Part of Speech: (adv. & adj.)
Def: In the middle of a ship
Anathema
Part of Speech: (n.)
Def: A formal curse by a pope or council of the Church, excommunicating a person.
Syn: Hateful, offensive
Barbarous
Part of Speech (adj.)
Def: savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal
Syn: Inhuman, diabolical, cruel
Ant: Civilized, human
Beset
Part of Speech: (v.)
Def: Trouble or threaten persistently
Syn: Torment, harass
Bewailing
Part of Speech (v.)
Def: express bitterness by complaining about it to others.
Syn: lament, grieve, mourn
Ant: Rejoice, applaud
Doled
Part of Speech: (n.)
Def: Benefit paid by the government to the unemployed
Syn: distribute, handout
Fiend
Part of Speech: (n.)
Def: A wicked and cruel person
Syn: monster, ogre, barbarian
Girdled
Part of Speech: (n.)
Def: Something surrounding a belt
Syn: Enclose, circle
Harrowed
Part of Speech: (v.)
Def: To cause distress to
Syn: Bother, torment
Prowler
Part of Speech (n.)
Context: Then a powerful demon, a prowler through the dark, nursed a hard grievance.
Sentence: There have been several incidents in the local bank regarding a prowler and his minions.
Respite
Part of Speech (n.)
Context: He was numb with grief, but got no respite for one night later merciless Grendel struck again with more gruesome murders.
Sentence: After the death of a family, I tried to respite the situation by going to a friend.
Strove
Part of Speech (v.)
Context: For the killing of Abel the Eternal Lord had exacted a price: Cain got no good from committing that murder because the Almighty made him anathema and out of the curse of his exile there sprang ogres and elves and evil phantoms and the giants too who strove with God time and again until He gave them their reward.
Sentence: He stroved through the kingdom to reach the throne.
Torques
Part of Speech (n.)
Context: Nor did he renege, but doled out rings and torques at the table.
Sentence: At the banquet, the royal family wore torques on their hands, necks, and wrists.
Wassail
Part of Speech: (n.)
Context: Then as dawn brightened and the day broke Grendel’s powers of destruction were plain: their wassail was over, they wept to heaven and mourned under morning.
Sentence: There were wassails served at both the banquet and the wedding.
Heath
Lofty
Pagan
Prow
Prudent
Rampant
Reavers
Renege
Scourge
Steadfast
Tholed
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