Odyssey Vocab
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- a siren
- n. a seductively beautiful or charming woman, esp. one who beguiles men
- baleful
- adj. full of menacing or malign influences, wretched, miserable
- dissemble
- v. to give a false or misleading appearance, ignore, to put on the appearance of
- amazon
- n. a tall, powerful, aggressive women
- clamor
- n. a loud and confused noise, protest or demand. V. to make a large protest or demand
- iridescent
- adj. displaying a play of lustrou colors like those of the rainbow
- labyrinthine
- adj. complicated, toruous
- lithe
- adj. bending readiy, plient, supple, flexible
- odyssey
- n. an ectended adventurous voyage or trip
- insolent
- adj. boldy rude or disrespectful, n. an - person
- renown
- n. the condition of being known or talked about, widespread and high repute
- din
- n. a noisy clamor, a loud, confused noise. V. to sound or utter with or persistent repetition
- ordained
- v. make someone a priest or miniter, order or decree
- foreboding
- n. a prediction a strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune
- surfeit
- n. excess, an ecessive amount. V. to bring to a state of excess
- martial
- adj. inclined or disposed to war, warlike, of or sutable for, or associated with war of the armed forces
- tantalize
- v. to torment withm or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach, tease by arousing ecpectatios that are repeatedly disappointed
- rite
- n. a formal or ceremonial acto r procedure prescribed or customay in religious user
- cunning
- n. skilled employed in a shrewd or sly manner
- patrimony
- n. estate that is inherited fromparents, characterists that are inherited
- engendering
- v. to bring into existence
- Trojan horse
- n. a person or thing attended to destroy from within
- buffets
- n. large sidebars with dreawers and cupboard
- malice
- n. desire to inflict injury harm or sufferin on another
- to muse
- v. to thiink or mediate in silence on some subject
- Spartan
- adj. sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere
- mentor
- n. a wise and trusted counselor or teacher, an influential senior sponsor or supporter, v. to act as a mentor
- harp on
- v. to dwell on persistently or tediously in speaking or writing
- desolation
- n. an act of or instance or fuining, ruin, barrenness, sorrow, grief, a desolate place
- revel
- v. to take great pleasure or delight, to make merry. N. boisterous merrymaking or festivity
- retainers
- n. frame or groove that restrains or guides
- Herculean
- adj. very hard to perform
- aphrodisiac
- n. something that heightens desire
- sage
- n. a profoundly wise person.
- narcissist
- n. someone in love with him or herself
- hekatomb
- to give sacrifice
- shroud
- n. a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial, v. to wrap or cloth for burial
- precedence
- n. the right to precede in order of rank or iportance
- titanic
- adj. of enormous size, strenth, power
- stratagem
- n. a plan, scheme or trick for surprising or decieving an enemy
- an adonis
- n. a very handsome young man
- mercurial
- adj. changeable, volatile
- pacify
- v. to bring or restore toa state of peace or tranquility, quite, calm, to appease
- psyche
- n. the human soul, spirt, or mind
- lament
- v. to feel or express regret for. N. an expression of greif or sorrow
- achilles heel
- n. a seemingly small but actually crucial weakness
- divining
- adj. pertaining to a god, or heavenly thing. V to discover or declare prophesy
- relent
- to soften in feeling, temper or determination, forgiving, compassionate
- bacchanalia
- n. a riotous, boisterous festivity, a revel
- eureka
- int. i have found it
- mulled
- v. to heat and spice
- the midas touch
- n. the ability to turn any business venture one is associated with into an exctemely profitable one
- illustrious
- adj. highly distinguished, renowned, famous, glorius, luminous or brightqlithe