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English 2 Honors
Vocabualry
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| sinecure | requires little work |
| indoctrinate | to teach; to accept a set of beliefs |
| garble | reproduce in confused ways |
| vapid | offering nothing |
| alterable | can be changed |
| esoteric | understood by a small number of people with special knowledge |
| rite | a cermonial, solemn act as in religious use |
| adversity | misfortune;wretched or trouble state a calmity disater |
| aethetic | of beauty; sensitive to art and beauty |
| amicable | friendly;peaceful |
| deviant | devainting esp. from what is considered normal, one whose behavior is deviant |
| feral | untamined; wild, savage, fierce |
| what eytmology is rite what part of speech is it used as | latin noun |
| what eytomology is adversity what POS is it used as | latin noun |
| what eytomology is aethetic what POS is it used as | greek adjective |
| what eytomology is amicable what POS is it used as | latin adjective |
| what eytomology is deviant what POS is it used as | latin adjective |
| what eytomogly is feral what POS is it used as | latin adjective |
| aegis | armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass |
| aegis | His breastplate was the ___ awful to behold; his bird was the eagle,his tree the oak |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| beneficent | Apollo at Delphi was purely ____ power, a direct link between gods and men, guiding men to know the divine will, showing them how to make peace with all the gods, the purifier, too able to cleanse even those stained with the blood of their kindred. |
| crude | belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and crudeness |
| crude | Two ideas were fighting in him as in all the gods: a primitive,___ idea and one that was beautiful and poetic |
| treacherous | dangerously unstable and unpredictable |
| treacherous | In later poems she is usually shown as____ and malicious, exerting a deadly and destructive power over men |
| Shrewdest | marked by practical hardheaded intelligence |
| Shrewdest | Of all the gods he was the ____ and most cunning in fact he was the Master thief, who started upon his career before he was a day old |
| retaliation | The god of fire, sometimes said to be the son of Zeus and Hera, sometimes said Hera alone, who bore him in ____ for Zeus's having brought forth Athena |
| Loftier | As the idea of Zeus became ____,two august forms sat beside him in Olympus. |
| August | As the idea of Zeus became loftier ,two ____ forms sat beside him in Olympus. |
| Pallid | Around it are wide waste, wan and cold and meadows of asphodel, presumably strange,____, ghostly flowers |
| inexorable | He was unpitying, ______, but just a terrible not an evil god. |
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