Odyssey Vocabulary
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- Revel
- (v) to take great pleasure or delight; to pluck retract, pull back
- Stratagem
- (n) a military maneuver designed to decieve or surprise an enemy
- Lament
- (v) to express grief for or about; mourn
- Malice
- (n) a desire to harm others or see others suffer, extreme ill will or spite
- Relent
- (v) To mollify, to cause to be less harsh or severe; to give in, as in influence or pressure
- Dissemble
- (v) to disguise or conceal behind a false appearance
- Patrimony
- (n) An inheritance from a father or other ancestor
- Foreboding
- (v) to indicate the likelihood of, portend; to prophecy or predict
- Pacify
- (v) to ease the anger or agitation of
- Mulled
- (v) to go over extensively in the mind, ponder
- Sage
- (adj) having or exhibiting wisdom or wise judgement
- Insolent
- (adj) audaciously rude or disrespectiful, impertinent
- Cunning
- (adj) marked by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness
- Hekatomb
- (n) a sacrifice to the anceint Greek and Roman gods consisting of 100 oxen or cattle
- Ordained
- (v) predestined: fixed or established esp. by order or command
- Desolation
- (n) devastation, ruin
- Retainers
- (n) A servant or attendant, esp. one in the household of a person of high rank
- Illustrious
- (adj) well-known and very distinguished, eminent
- Baleful
- (adj) full of deadly or pernicious influence; deadly, sinister
- Precedence
- (n) Priority claimed or received becuase of preeminence or superiority
- Surfeit
- (n) overindulgence in food or drink
- Shroud
- (n) a cloth used to wrap a body for burial
- Renown
- (n) The state of being much knowna dn talked of; exalted reputation derived from extensive praise of great achievements
- Buffets
- (v) to strike against forcefully, batter
- Engendering
- (v) To bring into existence; to bread, generate, procreate
- Din
- (n) a jumble of loud, usually discordant sounds
- Rite
- (n) a ceremonial act or series of acts
- Lithe
- (adj) flexible, limber; capable of being easily bent
- Clamor
- (v) to exclaim insistently and noisily
- Divining and Divination
- (v) To know by inspiration, inutition or reflection; (n) An indication of what is future or secret, prediction