A Dance with Dragons: Chapter 60–Epilogue

by George R.R. Martin
In the fifth volume of A Song of Ice and Fire, the fate of the seven kingdoms of Westeros hangs in the balance after a devastating battle.

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  1. rebuke
    an act or expression of criticism and censure
    His father would speak no word of rebuke, Quentyn knew, but the disappointment would be there in his eyes.
  2. destiny
    a course of events that will inevitably happen in the future
    That, and my own destiny. I am a prince of Dorne, and the blood of dragons is in my veins.
  3. relish
    derive or receive pleasure from
    He did not relish the notion of celebrating his return by killing one of his own kin.
  4. contradictory
    in disagreement
    If the reports that reached King’s Landing were confused and contradictory, so much the better.
  5. sustenance
    a source of food or nourishment
    And there was no food, beyond their failing horses, fish taken from the lakes (fewer every day), and whatever meagre sustenance their foragers could find in these cold, dead woods.
  6. sear
    become superficially burned (also figurative)
    Let their vile flesh be seared and blackened, that their spirits might rise free and pure to ascend into the light.
  7. breach
    make an opening or gap in
    Your courage is admirable, Lord Karstark, but courage will not breach the walls of Winterfell.
  8. puissant
    powerful
    His black sorcerer was more puissant than all of Euron’s three, even if you threw them in a pot and boiled them down to one.
  9. proclaim
    state or announce
    “The dragon queen frees slaves and so do I,” he proclaimed.
  10. vanity
    feelings of excessive pride
    We do not kill to serve some lord, to fatten our purses, to stroke our vanity.
  11. artifice
    the use of deception or trickery
    Wise men can see through artifice, and glamors dissolve before sharp eyes, but the face you are about to don will be as true and solid as that face you were born with.
  12. frequent
    be a regular visitor to a certain place
    The city watch is looking for a certain ugly girl, known to frequent the Purple Harbor, so best you have a new face as well.
  13. atonement
    the act of making amends for sin or wrongdoing
    “So now this sinner comes before you with a humble heart, shorn of secrets and concealments, naked before the eyes of gods and men, to make her walk of atonement.”
  14. cringe
    show submission or fear
    I am a lioness. I will not cringe for them.
  15. jeer
    laugh at with contempt and derision
    The next thing she knew she was crawling, scrambling uphill on all fours like a dog as the good folks of King’s Landing made way for her, laughing and jeering and applauding her.
  16. parchment
    a superior paper resembling sheepskin
    I’ll go on buying steel swords with parchment dragons.
  17. bondage
    the state of being under the control of another person
    There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave, the dwarf reflected. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.
  18. pretext
    a fictitious reason that conceals the real reason
    This was to give Hizdahr a pretext to kill the dragons.
  19. rue
    feel sorry for; be contrite about
    Though we will rue your old man’s honor before this game is done, I think.
  20. ornate
    marked by complexity and richness of detail
    Besides, though the ornate dragon’s wings that adorned the helm were splendid to look upon, they could too easily catch a sword or axe.
  21. foe
    an armed adversary
    This is what I was made for, he thought. The dance, the sweet steel song, a sword in my hand and a foe before me.
  22. torpor
    inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of energy
    The plan had been to feed the beasts and chain them in their torpor, just as the queen had done.
  23. buffet
    strike against forcefully
    And then a hot wind buffeted him and he heard the sound of leathern wings and the air was full of ash and cinders and a monstrous roar went echoing off the scorched and blackened bricks and he could hear his friends shouting wildly.
  24. persist
    refuse to stop
    Let them die, I said, yet you will persist in this mad folly.
  25. compassion
    the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others
    The Night’s Watch needed leaders with the wisdom of Maester Aemon, the learning of Samwell Tarly, the courage of Qhorin Halfhand, the stubborn strength of the Old Bear, the compassion of Donal Noye.
  26. forswear
    formally reject or disavow
    This creature who makes cloaks from the skins of women has sworn to cut my heart out, and I mean to make him answer for those words... but I will not ask my brothers to forswear their vows.
  27. hideous
    so extremely ugly as to be terrifying
    Fire is a hideous way to die. Small wonder half the hells are made of flame.
  28. gibbet
    an instrument of public execution
    “Let them share a gibbet,” said Symon Stripeback. “They unleashed two dragons on the city.”
  29. vilify
    spread negative information about
    “You had best guard that tongue, ser.” Ser Barristan did not like this Gerris Drinkwater, nor would he allow him to vilify Daenerys.
  30. veer
    turn sharply; change direction abruptly
    When she laid the whip across Drogon’s right side he veered right, for a dragon’s first instinct is always to attack.
  31. char
    burn to charcoal
    Aside from that, and one fish that she had caught in the spring-fed pool outside of Drogon’s cave, she had survived as best she could on the dragon’s leavings, on burned bones and chunks of smoking meat, half-charred and half-raw.
  32. linger
    take one's time; proceed slowly
    Lost, because you lingered, in a place that you were never meant to be, murmured Ser Jorah, as softly as the wind.
  33. subdued
    quieted and brought under control
    His niece had been subdued and submissive since her walk of atonement, thank the gods.
  34. connivance
    agreement on a secret plot
    Your niece will think the Tyrells had you murdered, mayhaps with the connivance of the Imp.
  35. realm
    the domain ruled by a king or queen
    Doubt, division, and mistrust will eat the very ground beneath your boy king, whilst Aegon raises his banner above Storm’s End and the lords of the realm gather round him.
Created on Sat Apr 11 15:39:28 EDT 2015 (updated Tue Apr 09 12:23:31 EDT 2019)

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