MOUNTSVOCAB
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- blanched
- grew pale
- plumb
- vertically
- oration
- formal speech in a ceremony
- Athena
- goddess of crafts, domestic arts, war
- Hermes
- messenger god, god of guidance
- oblation
- offer sacrifice
- libation
- offer wine/ oil to the gods
- malformation
- abnormal or deformity
- travail
- exhausting work
- irrepressible
- difficult to control or restrain
- ruminated
- turn something over and over again in your mind
- ferocity
- feirceness
- slatternly
- slovenly, untidy
- overweening
- excessively proud
- founder
- sink
- megaron
- great hall
- carrion rogue
- rotten scoundrel
- Demeter
- goddess of agriculture
- affirmation
- something declared to be true
- profusion
- large supply
- harpies
- monsters 1/2 bird 1/2 women
- adze
- ax like tool
- lob
- toss
- Poseidon
- god of the sea, earthquakes, horses
- Ares
- god of war
- wierd
- fate
- Hephaestus
- god of fire and crafts
- benefactor
- one who gives aid, especially money
- ravage
- destroy violently, ruin
- brandishing
- to wave menacingly like a weapon
- sage
- wise
- stealth
- sneaky behavior
- supplication
- humble requests, prayers
- vintage
- wine of high quality identified by a year
- quaint
- charming in an old fashioned way
- formidable
- strikingly impressive
- holograph
- a document written in the hand of the person who signed it
- protege
- one whose training is promoted by an influential person
- connoisseur
- person of informed discriminating taste
- adversary
- opponent
- quailed
- to shrink back in fear, cower
- incredulity
- disbelief
- flay
- strip the skin from
- ardor
- passion, enthisiasm
- Apollo
- god of prophesy music and healing
- a' propos
- at the appropriate time
- detestable
- extremely hateful
- obnoxious
- very annoying, objectionable
- hubris
- excessive pride
- promontary
- high area of land that juts out onto a body of water
- combers
- large waves
- Zeus
- god of the Olympians
- fortnight
- 14 days, or 2 weeks
- disinterred
- dig up or remove from a tomb
- tumult
- uproar, confusion
- elicited
- to arrive at by logic
- lee
- a place of shelter from the wind
- juggernaut
- overwhelming, advancing, crushing force
- lavished
- give genourously
- serried
- crowded together
- maelstrom
- large violent whirlpool
- ambrosial
- fit for the gods, divine
- insidious
- treachourous
- henceforth
- from now on
- accosted
- to approach boldly or aggresively
- vaunt
- boast
- Dionysus
- god of wine
- Hades
- god of the Underworld
- impacable
- unyeilding, merciless
- pall
- cover for a coffin
- Hera
- goddess of marraife
- hecatombs
- sacrifices of 100 cattle or more
- pedantic
- concern for book learning and formal rules
- Artemis
- goddess of virginity, hunting
- kine
- cattle
- hypocrisy
- falseness
- gorge
- jaws of an all devouring beast
- quiver
- case for arrows
- repulsion
- a feeling of violent disgust
- Aphrodite
- goddess of love beauty and fertility
- undemonstrative
- very reserved
- iniquity
- immorality, injustice, wickedness
- ply
- twisted strands
- nocked
- fitted to bowstring