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odyssey
odyssey vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| usurp | to sieze and hold by force and without legal authority |
| suitors | one who courts a woman or wishes to marry her |
| assert | to state or declare positively, and often forcefully or aggressively |
| handmaiden | a woman attendant or servant |
| discourteousness | exhibiting no courtesy; rude |
| ploy | action done to frustrate an opponent or to gain advantage deviously |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from persecution also a trying experience |
| norther | a strong north wind |
| unscathed | wholly, unharmed, not injured |
| teeming | to become filled, overflowing |
| reconnaissance | a preliminary survey to gain information especially of an enemy territory |
| fathom | unit of length equal to six feet used especially for measuring the depth of water |
| prophesied | to predict with assurance on the basis of mystic knowledge |
| resound | to be filled with sound; reverberate |
| folly | thoughtlessness or reckless behavior |
| lavished | giving or spending generously or to excess |
| malicious | motivated by a desire to cause harm or pain to others |
| lofty | highest rank or status |
| libation | the pouring of a liquid such as wine or oil as a sacrifice to a god or in honor of a dead person |
| shrouded | covered for protection; to cut off from view |
| mar | to spoil something |
| placate | to make someone less angry or hostile; usually by doing or saying things to please him or her |
| preeminence | having a large amount of dignity, rank, or importance |
| atonement | to make amends for a wrong |
| fabricate | to make up something as in a story |
| metis | cunning, guile, way with words |
| swineherd | one who tends pigs |
| skeptical | to doubt or question |
| insolent | rude or disrespectful |
| woo | to seek affection of |
| sowing | to strew or cover with something; spread thickly |
| perpetuity | time without end |
| woebegone | affected by deep sorrow, grief, or wretchedness |
| auspicious | marked by success |
| vagrant | someone who wanders from place to place and has no permanent home |
| gluten | someone who eats or drinks to excess |
| goaded | to provoke someone to do something |
| circumspect | showing unwillingness to act without first weighing the risks fo the consequences |
| recompense | gift used for compensation |
| revered | to regard with awe and devotion |
| odious | arousing strong dislike or intense displeasure |
| lamenation | the act of mourning, wailing, or moaning |
| illustrious | very well known |
| inquity | gross immortality or injustice; wickedness |
| portico | a covered walkway leading to the entrance of a building |
| dowry | money or property given by a bride's family to her bridegroom or his family when she marries |
| entrails | internal organs of the body, especially the intestines |
| wrath | the vengance, punishment, or destruction wreaked by somebody in anger |
| lust | strong sexual desire |
| inciting | to spur to action |
| soothsayer | someone claiming supernatural guidance in predicting the future |
| portents | signs of something to happen in the future |
| retribution | something done or given as punishment |
| restitution | the act of restoring to the rightful owner something that has been taken away, lost, or surrendered |
| throes | a severe pang or spasm of pain |
| throng | large group of people gathered or crowded closely together |
| supplicate | to ask for humbly or earnestly, as by praying |
| begrudged | to resent the fact that someone has something |
| rendezvous | a meeting arranged for a specified time and place |
| unguents | salve or ointment |
| pyre | a pile of wood for burning a dead body |
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