beowulf

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  1. surfeit
    indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
    The monster of evil
    Greedy and cruel tarried but little,
    He drags off thirty of them, and devours them
    Fell and frantic, and forced from their slumbers
    Thirty of thanemen; thence he departed
    10
    Leaping and laughing, his lair to return to,
    With surfeit<
  2. tarry
    leave slowly and hesitantly
    The monster of evil
    Greedy and cruel tarried but little,
    He drags off thirty of them, and devours them
    Fell and frantic, and forced from their slumbers
    Thirty of thanemen; thence he departed
    10
    Leaping and laughing, his lair to return to,
    With surf
  3. devour
    eat immoderately
    The monster of evil
    Greedy and cruel tarried but little,
    He drags off thirty of them, and devours them
    Fell and frantic, and forced from their slumbers
    Thirty of thanemen; thence he departed
    10
    Leaping and laughing, his lair to return to,
    With surf
  4. prowess
    a superior skill learned by study and practice
    In the dusk of the dawning, as the day was just breaking,
    Was Grendel’s prowess revealed to the warriors:
    A cry of agony goes up, when Grendel’s horrible deed is fully realized.
  5. frantic
    marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
    The monster of evil
    Greedy and cruel tarried but little,
    He drags off thirty of them, and devours them
    Fell and frantic, and forced from their slumbers
    Thirty of thanemen; thence he departed
    10
    Leaping and laughing, his lair to return to,
    With surf
  6. banquet
    a ceremonial dinner party for many people
    When the sun was sunken, he set out to visit
    The lofty hall-building, how the Ring-Danes had used it
    For beds and benches when the banquet was over.
  7. repletion
    the state of being full
Created on Mon Mar 05 14:24:42 EST 2012 (updated Mon Mar 05 14:27:42 EST 2012)

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