Beowulf Week 2 Vocabulary words

Illumination spiritual or intellectual enlightenment

Desolate Showing the effects of abandonment and neglect

Malevolent productive of harm or evil

Incantation A recited formula of words designed to produce a particular effect

Disconsolately cheerless, low spirits

Simplicity the state of being simple uncomplicated, or uncompounded

Ambitious having a desire to achieve a particular goal

Pestilence Something that is destructive or pernicious

Flabbergasted To overwhelm with shock, surprise, or wonder

Scythe an implement used for mowing (as grass) and composed of a long curving blade fastened at an angle to a long handle