Hobbit Vocab 2

Question 1

Abominable

Answer 1

Causing moral revulsion

Question 2

Acquaint

Answer 2

make someone aware of or familiar with

Question 3

Benighted

Answer 3

in a state of pitiful or contemptible intellectual or moral ignorance, typically owing to a lack of opportunity

Question 4

Bewitch

Answer 4

cast a spell on and gain control over (someone)

by magic

Question 5

Antiquity

Answer 5

the ancient past, especially the period for the Middle

Ages

Question 6

Bloodcurdling

Answer 6

causing terror or horror

Question 7

clamber

Answer 7

climb, move, or get in or out of something in an
awkward and laborious way, typically using both
hand and feet

Question 8

commotion

Answer 8

a state of confused and noisy disturbance

Question 9

desperate

Answer 9

feeling, showing or involving a hopeless sense that
a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal
with

Question 10

dumbfound

Answer 10

greatly astonished or amazed

Question 11

glimmer

Answer 11

shine faintly with a wavering light

Question 12

immense

Answer 12

extremely large or great, especially in scale or degree

Question 13

Menace

Answer 13

a person or thing that is likely to cause harm;

a threat or a danger

Question 14

onslaught

Answer 14

fierce or destructive attack

Question 15

plunder

Answer 15

steal goods from (a place or person) typically

using force and in a time of war or civil disorder

Question 16

scrumptious

Answer 16

extremely appetizing or delicious

Question 17

scuttle

Answer 17

a metal container with a sloping hinged lid and handle,

used to fetch and store coal for a domestic fire.

Question 18

slither

Answer 18

move smoothly over a surface with a twisting or

oscillating motion

Question 19

subterranean

Answer 19

existing, occurring, or done under the earths surface