Odyssey Vocabulary 2
Terms
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- sojourn
- temporarily stay
- thrall
- slavery
- luminous
- enlightening; brilliant intellectually
- heed
- careful attention
- mandate
- authoritative command
- pillage
- plundering
- promontory
- bluff, part of plateau, overlooking a lowland
- remiss
- careless
- gentry
- upper ruling class
- uncouth
- strange
- comely
- attractive/suitable/welcoming
- ardor
- passion
- vicutals
- food provisions
- consort
- to agree
- abase
- humiliate/bring down
- languish
- to become weak
- affront
- insult/offend
- feign
- to conceal/disguise
- wanton
- hard to control/inhumane
- hapless
- unfortunate
- guile
- sly trickery
- profusion
- plentiful supply/great quantity
- annexed
- attached as an addition
- prodigious
- very big/huge
- peals
- loud sounds
- boon
- blessing
- desolation
- loneliness/devastation
- beguile
- to deceive cunningly
- foreboding
- have feeling of something bad going to happen/foretell
- disconsolate
- very sad/dejected
- somber
- gloomy
- atone
- to make amends for a sin
- bane
- killer/destroyer
- implacable
- not possible to change, satisfy, or please
- impalpable
- unable to be felt by touch
- maelstrom
- large, powerful whirlpool
- timorous
- fearful
- wantonness
- carelessness
- gallant
- brave/noble man
- eddied
- to move or whirl in currents
- assent
- to agree
- anoint
- dedicate to the service of god
- booty
- plunder/pillage
- crux
- essential point requiring resolution
- colloquy
- discussion/conversation
- stockade
- barrier made of stakes
- palisade
- fence for defense
- swill
- to drink greedily/grossly
- concubine
- second wife
- amenity
- features providing comfort or luxury
- chattel
- property other than land/slaves
- provision
- something provided
- clarion
- loud and clear
- dally
- to waste/delay
- minion
- follower/helper
- quandary
- state of uncertainty/dilemma
- impudence
- disrespectful
- cower
- to crouch in fear or shame
- oblation
- the act of offering something
- conjure
- to call forth by magical words
- dole
- distribute in charity/handout
- respite
- put off/delay
- mendicant
- beggar
- goad
- to provoke or prod
- niggard
- stingy/ungenerous
- pith
- essential part
- flout
- mock/treat with scorn
- galling
- irritating/shocking
- compunction
- guilt/remorse
- blithe
- joyous/carefree
- maudlin
- excessively emostional
- suppliant
- asking humbly/earnestly
- odium
- hatred
- impervious
- not letting anything pass through
- callow
- immature
- covey
- group
- hackles
- anger
- forlorn
- sad miserable
- rout
- defeat
- disconcerted
- throw into confusion
- contending
- struggling
- harried
- harassed/beset by problems
- plundered
- took by force/looted/stole
- valor
- personal bravery
- insolence
- quality of being overbearing/rude
- sage
- wise
- indignation
- anger aroused by something unjust
- lament
- to express sorrow/mourn
- audacity
- bold/arrogant
- tactacian
- clever maneuverer
- broach
- to mention or suggest for the first time
- insidious
- stealthily treacherous or deceitful
- brazen
- marked by boldness
- rebuffed
- rejected/criticized
- libation
- pouring a liquid as a sacrafice
- lithe
- characterized by flexibility and grace
- anguish
- extreme pain/distress
- abhorred
- detest/loathe
- quills
- feather used to weave a shroud
- rasping
- irritating/harsh
- quiver
- case for carrying arrows
- commandeer
- to take possession of by force
- coddle
- to treat with extreme care/pamper
- revelry
- boisterous festivity/merrymaking
- runnels
- narrow channel or course/brook
- tithe
- a tenth part (income)
- threshold
- entrance
- mettle
- ability to keep going/strength
- bordello
- house of prostitutes
- flog
- to beat severely with a stick
- brimestone
- sulfur
- tremulous
- fearful
- sally
- to rush or leap forth
- threnody
- song of mourning sorrow
- unguent
- ointment
- wily
- tricky
- baseness
- dishonorable/selfish/cowardly
- arbiter
- a judge