Odyssey Vocab
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- Pacify
- to ease the anger or agitaion of
- Illustrious
- well-known and very distinguished, eminent
- Hekatomb
- a sacrifice to the ancient Greek and roman gods consisting of 100 oxen and cattle
- Ripened
- to approah or come to perfection
- Regaled
- To provide with great enjoyment; entertain; to entertain sumptuously with food or drink
- Shroud
- a cloth used to wrap a body for burial
- Baleful
- Full of deadly or pernicious influence; deadly, sinister
- Brazen
- resembling brass, as in color ot strength
- Unshorn
- Not sheared or shaven
- Equerries
- an officer charged with supervision of the horses belonging to a royal or noble household
- Anvil
- A heavy block of iron or steel with a smooth, falt top on which metals are shaped by hammering
- Haunches
- The hip, buttock, and upper thigh in animals and humans
- Lament
- to express grief for or about; mourn
- Engendering
- To bring into existence; to bread, generate, procreate
- Din
- A jumble of loud, usually discordant sounds
- Malice
- a desire to harm others or see others suffer, extreme ill will or spite
- Herald
- A person who carries or proclaims important new, a messenger
- Chine
- a cut of meat containing part of the backbone
- Clamor
- to exclaim insistently and noisly
- Ordained
- Presdestined; fixed or established especially by order or command
- Patrimony
- An inheritance from a father or other ancestor
- Parley
- A discussion or conference, especially one between enemies
- Prelude
- An introductory performance, event, or action leading up to
- Furled
- to roll up a secure, as in a flag or sail
- Beguiling
- Deluding, misleading, deceiving
- Cunning
- Marked by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness
- Retainers
- A servent or attendent, especially one in the household of a person
- Mulled
- to go over extensively in the mind, ponder
- Relent
- to mollify, to cause to be less harsh or severe; to give in, as in influence or pressure
- Canny
- careful and shrewd, especially where ones own interests are concerned
- Clarion
- loud and clear
- Strategem
- a military maneuver designed to deceive or surprise an enemy
- Omen
- a phenomenon supposed to portend good or evil; a prophetic sign
- Insolent
- audaciously rude or disrespectful, impertinent
- Dissemble
- to disguise or conceal behind a flase appearance
- Divining
- To know by inspiration, intuition or reflection
- Sage
- having ot exhibiting wisdom or wise judgement
- Renown
- The state of being much known and talked of; exalted reputation derived from extensive praise of great achievments
- Divination
- An idication of what is future or secret, prediction
- Desolation
- devastation, ruin
- Revel
- to take great pleasure or delight; to pluck, retract, pull back
- Muster
- to cause to come together, gather
- Foreboding
- to indicate the likelihood of , portend; to prophecy or predict
- Surfeit
- overindulgence in food or drink
- Precedence
- Priority claimed or recieved because of preeminence or superiority
- Rite
- a ceremonial act or series of acts
- Mound
- a large pile of stone to mark a burial site
- Lithe
- Flexible, limber; capable of being easily bent
- Buffets
- To strike against forcefully, batter
- Requite
- to make repayment or return to; to avenge