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