Odyssey Vocab
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- buffets
- to strike against forcefully, batter
- Engendering
- To bring into existence; to bread, generate, procreate.
- revel
- to take great pleasure or delight; to pluck, retract, pull back
- relent
- to mollify, to cause to be less harsh or severe; to give in, as in influence or pressure
- precedence
- claimed or received because of preeminence or superiority
- din
- A jumble of loud, usually discordant sounds.
- surfeit
- overindulgence in food or drink
- rite
- a ceremonial act or series of acts
- shroud
- a cloth used to wrap a body for burial
- illustrious
- well--known and very distinguished, eminent
- patrimony
- an inheritance from a father or other ancestor
- sage
- having or exhibiting wisdom or wise judgment
- Divining
- To know by inspiration, intuition or reflection; (n) An indication of what is future or secret, prediction.
- mulled
- to go over extensively in the mind, ponder
- dissemble
- to disguise or conceal behind a false appearance
- ordained
- predestined; fixed or established especially by order or command
- hekatomb
- a sacrifice to the ancient Greek and Roman gods consisting of 100 oxen or cattle
- baleful
- full of deadly or pernicious influence; deadly, sinsister
- insolence
- audaciously rude or disrespectful, impertinent
- malice
- desire to harm others or see others suffer, extreme ill will or spite
- lithe
- flexible, limber; capable of being easily bent
- retainers
- a servant or attendant, especially one in the household of a person of high rank
- cunning
- by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness
- strategem
- a military maneuver designed to deceive or surprise an enemy
- lament
- to express grief for or about; mourn
- clamor
- to exclaim insistently and noisily
- pacify
- to ease the anger or agitation of
- renown
- the state of being much known and talked of; exalted reputation derived from extensive praise of great achievements
- desolation
- devastation, ruin
- foreboding
- to indicate the likelihood of, portend; to prophecy or predict