Odyssey vocab. 3
Terms
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- fettle
- state or condition of health, fitness, wholeness, spirit, or form – often used in the phrase in fine fettle
- humiliate
- to reduce to a lower position in one’s own eyes or others’ eyes
- interminable
- having or seeming to have no end <an interminable class or baseball game> <Odysseus’ interminable journey>
- reproach
- an expression of rebuke or disapproval
- ravenous
- very greedy or eager for food or satisfaction <a ravenous attitude>
- presumption
- attitude or belief based on probability (assumption)
- lacrimation
- the abnormal or excessive secretion of tears (crying excessively)
- consecrate
- to make or declare sacred
- illustrious
- notably or brilliantly outstanding because of achievements or actions
- requite
- to make return for; repay; to make retaliation for (avenge)
- indefatigable
- incapable of being fatigued; untiring
- insatiable
- incapable of being satisfied <had an insatiable desire for wealth>