Real Odyssey Vocab
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- illustrious
- (adj) well-known and very distinguished, eminent
- cunning
- (adj) marked by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness
- desolation
- (n) devastation, ruin
- hekatomb
- (n) a sacrifice to the ancient Greek and Roman gods consisting of 100 oxen or cattle
- retainers
- (n) a servant or attendant, especially one in the household of a person of high rank
- lament
- (v) to express grief for or about; mourn
- relent
- (v) to mollify; to cause to be less harsh or severe; to give in, as in influence or pressure
- revel
- (to take great pleasure or delight; to pluck, retract, pull back
- insolent
- (adj) audaciously rude or disrespectful, impertinent
- patrimony
- (n) an inheritance from a father or other ancestor
- strategem
- (n) a military maneuver designed to decieve or surprise an enemy
- foreboding
- (v) to indicate the likelihood of, portend; to prophecy or predict
- surfeit
- (n) overindulgence in food or drink
- precedence
- (n) priority claimed or recieved because of preeminence or superiority
- lithe
- (adj) flexible, limber, capable of being easily bent
- engendering
- (v) to bring into existance; to breed, procreate, generate
- ordained
- (v) predestined; fixed or established especially by order or command
- din
- (n) a jumble of loud, usually discordant sounds
- divining, divination
- (v) to know by inspiration, intuition, or reflection; (n) an indication of what is future or secret, prediction
- buffets
- (v) to strike against forcefully, batter
- renown
- (n) the state of being much known and talked of; exhalted reputation derived from extensive praise of great achievements
- baleful
- (adj) full of deadly or pernicious influence; deadly, sinister
- shroud
- (n) a cloth used to wrap a body for burial
- malice
- (n) a desire to harm others or see others suffer, extreme ill will or spite
- clamor
- (v) to exclaim insistently and noisily
- sage
- (adj) having or exhibiting wisdom or wise judgment
- rite
- (n) a ceremonial act or series of acts
- pacify
- (v) to ease the anger or agitation of
- mulled
- (v) to go over extensively in the mind, ponder
- dissemble
- (v) to disguise or conceal behind a false appearance