Vocabulary

**The Odyssey- Book I** Definitions and parts of speech due Tuesday, April 18 **Harrison Bell - English 8**
 * Vocabulary**
 * 1)  plunder (p.77) - v. to rob of goods or valuables by open force
 * 2)  comrades - n. people who share in one’s activities
 * 3)  wheeling (p. 78) - n. a rotating or circular motion
 * 4)  harangued - n. a scolding or long intense verbal attack
 * 5)  colossal (p. 79) - v. extraordinarily great in size, extent, or degree
 * 6)  unappeased - v. the opposite of bringing to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm
 * 7)  rouse (p. 80) - v. to bring out a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity
 * 8)  craggy - adj. full of crags
 * 9)  swaggering (p. 81) - adj. pertaining to a person who swaggers
 * 10)  mortified - v. to have been humiliated or shamed
 * 11)  burnished - v. to make smooth or bright
 * 12)  staid (p.82) - adj. of settled or sedate character
 * 13)  lavish - adj. expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion
 * 14)  lyre - n. a musical instrument of ancient Greece, used to accompany singing and recitation
 * 15)  thwart (p.83) - v. to oppose successfully
 * 16)  uncanny - adj. having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis
 * 17)  carousing - v. to engage in a drunken revel
 * 18)  reproach (p.85) - v. to find fault with a person, group, etc.
 * 19)  indignation - n. strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base
 * 20)  brazen - adj. shameless or impudent
 * 21)  quest (p.86) - n. a search or pursuit made in order to find something
 * 22)  chafing (p. 87) - v. to wear or abrade by rubbing
 * 23)  distaff (p.89) - n. a staff with a cleft for holding wool, flax, etc.
 * 24)  overweening - adj. presumptuously conceited, overconfident, or proud
 * 25)  shrewdly - adj. astute or sharp in practical matters