Unit 2: Novel Study: The Hobbit, Chapters 1–5

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  1. apparently
    seemingly; as far as one can tell
  2. cross
    fold so as to resemble lines that intersect each other
  3. throng
    a large gathering of people
  4. audacious
    disposed to venture or take risks
  5. policy
    a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group
  6. curious
    beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
  7. grim
    filled with melancholy and despondency
  8. precise
    sharply exact or accurate or delimited
  9. purloin
    make off with belongings of others
  10. incantation
    a ritual reciting of words believed to have a magical effect
  11. vast
    unusually great in size or amount or extent or scope
  12. gruff
    blunt and unfriendly or stern
  13. unoccupied
    not held or filled or in use
  14. passage
    the act of moving from one state or place to the next
  15. direction
    a course along which something has a tendency to develop
  16. fund
    a supply of something available for future use
  17. anxious
    causing or fraught with or showing nervousness
  18. relieved
    made easier to bear
  19. antiquity
    extreme oldness
  20. brood
    think moodily or anxiously about something
Created on Mon Nov 30 12:12:23 EST 2020 (updated Wed Dec 02 13:27:16 EST 2020)

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