Monarch High School
Freshman Language Arts
Name:
Ms. Grace
Period:
revised April 2009
Vocabulary: The Odyssey, Part 2, “The Homecoming”
Directions: Define the words as they are used in The Odyssey and write the sentence/phrase in which the word appears
with the page number. The first two have been completed for you.
on
quiz
Word / Phrase
1. megaron (noun)
Definition / Meaning - Include sentence/phrase in which the word appears,
with page number
great hall or central room - Eumaeus crossed the court and went straight forward into the megaron
among the suitors.
2. vaunt (noun)
boast - Then came a rasping sound as those bright doors the key had sprung gave way- a bellow like a
bull’s vaunt in a meadow - followed by her light footfall entering.
3. ax-helve sockets (noun)
4. courier (noun)
5. adversities (noun)
6. disdainful (v. to disdain)
7. Cronus / Cronion (noun)
8. nocked (v. to nock)
9. adorn (verb)
10. Apollo (noun)
11. runnels (noun)
12. revelry (noun)
13. entrails (noun)
14. restitution (noun)
15. glowered (v. to glower)
16. Hephaestus (noun)
17. lavished
18. aloof
(v. to lavish)
(adj.)
19. pliant (adj.)
20. tremulous (adj.)