Wallowed
Girdled
Harrowed
Strove
Lofty
Beset: trouble or threaten persistently
Amidships: middle of a ship
Beset: torment
Skulked: keep out of sight
Steeds: a riding horse
Wound-slurry: oozing injury
Gangplank: A movable plank used as a ramp to board or disembark from a ship or boat
Steel-hulled: having a hull constructed primarily of steel
Seafarers: a man who serves as a sailor
Mead-benches: the seat or bench at a Germanic feast
Venturing: Venturing closer, his talon was raised to attack Beowulf where he lay on the bed; he was bearing in with open claw when the alert hero’s comeback and armlock forestalled him utterly.
- As I ventured closer to the animal, it continued to back away from me
Onslaught – the hall clattered and hammered, but somehow survived the onslaught and kept standing:
- Most Venezuelan’s would love to make an onslaught on Chavez
Quailed- every bone in his body quailed and recoiled, but he could not escape.
- I began to quail when I saw the snake in the house
Loathsome – the bloodshot water wallowed and surged, there were loathsome upthrows and overturnings of waves and gore and wound-slurry.
- The man showed a lot of loathsome after finding out he lost the bet
Ignominious – his fatal departure was regretted by no-one who witnessed his trail, the ignominious marks of his flight where he’d skulked away, exhausted in spirit and beaten in battle, bloodying the path, hauling his doom to the demons’ mere.
- She was ignominious since she admitted to being the real culprit
Grimly: in a grim implacable manner
Accursed: strong dislike towards something
Ravenous: extremely hungry
Sallied: make a military sortie
Heartsore: very sad
Weary: feeling or showing tiredness
Depredations: an act of attacking or plundering
Marauders: someone who attacks in search of gold
Moorland: an extensive area of moor
Plaited: formed into plaits
Hell-brute
Wallowing
Flank
Dismal
Hefted
Bestowed: the cup was carried to him, kind words spoken in welcome and a wealth of wrought gold graciously bestowed:
- I was bestowed for raising so much money for an organizaiton
Resplendent: two arm bangles, a mail-shit and rings, and the most resplendent torque of gold I ever heard tell of anywhere on earth or under heaven
- I have never seen such a resplendent lipstick on someone’s lips before
Comrade: here each comrade is true to the other, loyal to lord, loving in sprit.
- My best friend is my comrade
Sway: your sway is wide as the wind’s home, as the sea around cliff’s
- I tend to sway sometimes when I’m listening to good music
Looming: men were drinking wine at that rare feast; how could they know fate, the grim shape of things to come, the threat looming over many thanes as night approached and King Hrothgar prepared to retire to his quarters?
- The people were looming out of the back of the building
