Name:
Monarch High School
Freshman Language Arts
Ms. Grace
Period:
revised March 2009
Vocabulary: The Odyssey, Part 1
Directions: Define the words as they are used in The Odyssey. Some have been completed for you.
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Quiz
Term
Definition
1. contending (v. to contend.)
2. formidable (adj.)
3. Ilion (noun)
Troy
4. mustered (v. to muster)
5. withy baskets (adjective/noun)
baskets made from willow twigs
6. ravage (v.)
7. lugger (n.)
8. profusion (n.)
9. nectar and ambrosia (nouns)
10. smithy (n.)
blacksmith’s shop where iron tools are made
11. adze (n.)
12. divers (adj.)
diverse, various
13. pectoral fleece (adj./noun)
wool on a sheep’s chest
14. carrion rogue (adj./noun)
15. lob
(v.)
16. weird (n.)
fate
17. ambrosial (adj.)
18. stealth (adj.)
19. mast (n.)
various kinds of nuts used for food for hogs
20. Erebus (n.)
21. flay (v.)
22. implacable (adj.)
23. Thrinakia (n.)
Island where the sun god, Helios, kept his sacred cattle
24. kine / beeves (n.)
25. winnowing fan (adj. /n.)
old term for cattle / cows
tool used to remove the useless dry outer covering from grain
(people would never have seen an oar, so they compared it to what they knew.)
26. hecatombs (n.)
100 , a sacrifice of 100 cattle at a time to the gods
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Definition
Term
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27. rancor (n.)
28. Harpies (n.)
29. whelp (n.)
30. serried (adj.)
31. abominably (adj.)
32. promontory (n.)
33. Amphitrite (n.)
goddess of the sea and wife of Poseidon
34. maelstrom (n.)
35. plumb (adj.)
36. ardor (n.)
37. combers (n.)
38. smother
commotion, violent action or disorder
39. cuirass (n.)
armor for the chest and back
40. travail (n.)
41. gorge (n.)
42. blanched (v. to blanch)
43. dire grapple (adj./verb.)
throat and jaws of a greedy, all devouring being