Part One Vocabulary

1. Homer’s Odyssey Part One Vocabulary

2. LeBron James is a FORMIDABLE basketball player Definition of formidable: awe-inspiring in excellence; strikingly impressive

3. Formidable (adjective) Definition of formidable: awe-inspiring in excellence; strikingly impressive Sentence from the Odyssey: “I am Laertes’ son, Odysseus. Men hold me formidable for guile in peace and war: this fame has gone abroad to the sky’s rim.”

4. What else is formidable? Cirque du Soleil Extreme athletes

5. What is happening in this picture? Definition of ravage: destroy violently; ruin

6. Ravage (verb) Definition of ravage: destroy violently; ruin Sentence from the Odyssey: “What brings you here by seaways—a fair traffic? Or are you wandering rogues, who cast your lives like dice, and ravage other folk by sea?”

7. War RAVAGES homes and lives.

8. How many kids do Jon and Kate have? Definition of profusion: a large supply; abundance

9. Profusion (noun) Definition of profusion: a large supply; abundance Sentence from the Odyssey: “I held this in the fire’s heart and turned it, toughening it, then hid it, well back in the cavern, under one of the dung piles in profusion there.”

11. He ain’t no Einstein… Sage means WISE.

12. Sage (adjective) Definition of sage: wise Sentence from the Odyssey: “To this rough shout they made a sage reply: ‘Ah well, if nobody has played you foul there in your lonely bed, we are no use in pain given by great Zeus.”

13. Who is sage? Teiresias!

14. Friends or Adversaries? Definition of adversary: enemy; opponent

15. Adversary (noun) Definition of adversary: enemy; opponent Sentence from the Odyssey: “Far out, as far offshore as shouted words would carry, I sent a few back to the adversary: ‘O Cyclops! Would you feast on my companions?”

16. Adversaries

17. Poseidon is Odysseus’ main adversary in Homer’s Odyssey

18. What kind of bomber is this? Definition of stealth: secret or sneaky action or behavior

19. Stealth (noun) Definition of stealth: secret or sneaky action or behavior Sentence from the Odyssey: “No one would speak until Polites—most faithful and likable of my officers—said: ‘Dear friends, no need for stealth: here’s a young weaver singing a pretty song to set the air atingle on these lawns and paven courts.”

20. Who must use STEALTH?

21. What emotions does this picture hold? Definition of rancor: bitter hate; ill will

22. Rancor (noun) Definition of rancor: bitter hate; ill will Sentence from the Odyssey: “But anguish lies ahead; the god who thunders on the land prepares it not to be shaken from your track, implacable in rancor for the son whose eye you blinded.”

24. What in the world is this?? Definition of abominably: in an extremely unpleasant or disgusting manner

25. Abominably (adverb) Definition of abominably: in an extremely unpleasant or disgusting manner Sentence from the Odyssey: “That is the den of Scylla, where she yaps abominably, a newborn whelp’s cry, though she is huge and monstrous.”

26. Who does things abominably? An elephant does!

27. What is this kid showing? Definition of ardor: passion; enthusiasm

28. What is passion? ARDOR! (that’s what she said)

29. Ardor (noun) Definition of ardor: passion; enthusiasm Sentence from the Odyssey: “The lovely voices in ardor appealing over the water made me crave to listen, and I tried to say ‘Untie me!’ to the crew, jerking my brows; but they bent steady to the oars.”

31. Who causes the most tumult? Definition of tumult: commotion; uproar; confusion

32. Tumult (noun) Definition of tumult: commotion; uproar; confusion Sentence from the Odyssey: “But scarcely had that island faded in blue air when I saw smoke and white water; with sound of waves in tumult—a sound the men heard, and it terrified them.”