Odyssey Vocab
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| Plunder (If you plunge a toilet you use alot of force so plundered..) | show 🗑
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| Guile (what is odessuys) | show 🗑
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“My men were mutinous, fools, on stores of wine,” (493).
Rebellious, against the rules
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“We...unshipped the oars, and pulled for the nearest lee,” (493).
Area sheltered from the wind
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| Victuals (kind of like ambrosia just not from gods) | show 🗑
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| Kids (yk this one) | show 🗑
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“A prodigious man
slept in this cave alone,” (494)
Enormous (494)
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| Talents ( you get paid for your talent) | show 🗑
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| Whey (No WHEY you would drink that part of the milk) | show 🗑
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| Boughs (think B= Branches) | show 🗑
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| Withy (sounds naturey) | show 🗑
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“he caught
another brace of men to make his breakfast,” (498)
Pair (498)
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“There was a din of whistling as the Cyclops rounded his flock to higher ground…” (498).
Loud continuous noise, uproar
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| Ambrosia ( sounds like drink, drink is food) from who? | show 🗑
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“To this rough shout, they made a sage reply” (501)
Wise (501)
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| Pinioned (pinned) | show 🗑
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| Libations (Liberals sacrifice for common god so libations are ) | show 🗑
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“I spaded up the votive pit…” (507).
Done to fulfill a vow or express thanks
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“Avoid those kine, hold fast to your intent”(509)
Cattle (509)
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“...Carry out pure hecatombs at home to all wide heaven’s lords, the undying gods, to each in order,” (509)
large-scale sacrifices to the
gods in ancient Greece; often,
the slaughter of 100 cattle at
one time.
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“And all this time,
in travail, sobbings, gaining on the current,”(514)
Very hard work (514)
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| Maelstrom (strom- storm scylla and charybdis which is a) | show 🗑
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| show | Armor Upper body
“...So I tied on my cuirass and took up two heavy spears…” (514)
Amor for the upper body.
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| show | “but fire my corpse, and all the gear I had,
and build a cairn” (508)
Heap of stones built as a monument (508)
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