Tolkien Reading Day: Tolkien Reading Day, List 1

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  1. expedition
    a journey organized for a particular purpose
  2. plunder
    goods or money obtained illegally
  3. defray
    bear the expenses of
  4. purloin
    make off with belongings of others
  5. venerable
    profoundly honored
  6. antiquity
    extreme oldness
  7. vengeance
    harming someone in retaliation for something they have done
  8. dismay
    fear resulting from the awareness of danger
  9. uncanny
    suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
  10. vagabond
    wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community
  11. desolation
    a bleak atmosphere
  12. maraud
    raid and rove in search of plunder
  13. smolder
    burn slowly and without a flame
  14. calamity
    an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
  15. rove
    move about aimlessly or without any destination
  16. impenetrable
    not admitting of passage into or through
  17. foreboding
    a feeling of evil to come
  18. carrion
    the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food
  19. sentinel
    a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
  20. prophecy
    a prediction uttered under divine inspiration
Created on Fri Mar 24 15:25:14 EDT 2023 (updated Thu Dec 14 13:37:28 EST 2023)

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