| A | B |
|---|
| cunning | clever |
| slither | move around by gliding |
| ferocious | mean, aggressive |
| marauding | attacking |
| manace | a threat, danger |
| flanks | sides |
| hydra | serpent with many heads |
| wary | cautious |
| pyre | funeral pile for burning a corpse |
| humility | lack of pride, modest |
| aptitude | natural ability |
| capricious | acting without planning or thinking ahead |
| implore | to beg |
| vainly | uselessly; to no avail |
| contempt | disdain |
| pine | waste away from longing or grief |
| enchanted | under a spell; bewitched |
| flay | strip the skin off |
| hind | a female deer |
| glinting | glisten |
| chafe | chapped |
| immortal | undying; not subject to death |
| misfortune | piece of bad luck |
| scorfully | disdainfully |
| ironic | the opposite of what you expect |
| nemesis | enemy, rival |
| abode | a home |
| immortal | undying; not subject to death |
| misfortune | a piece of bad luck |
| acknowledge | to recognize the status of rights of |
| seared | burned, scorched |
| nymphs | beautiful young women |
| chaos | confused, unorganized state of primordial matter |
| remote | separated by an space greater than usual |
| anvil | heavy usually steel-faced iron block for shaping metal |
| scheme | plan or program of action |
| sickle | curved metal blade with short handle for agriculture |
| maimed | wounded seriously |
| mutilated | cut up or altered radically to make imperfect |
| monarch | person who reigns over a kingdom or empire |
| prophecy | prediction of something to come |
| vigilant | alertly watchful, especially to avoid danger |
| entrusted | to confer a trust |
| tyrannous | unjustly severe |
| strategy | careful plan or method |
| maneuvered | to cause to execute tactical movements |
| smite | to strike |
| strategem | skill in trickery |
| indignant | filled with indignation, angry at something unjust |
| treachery | willful betrayal of trust or confidence |
