The Odyssey Vocabulary: Unit Six

  1. Provisions (n) supplies, necessities, food/water rations
  2. Prowess (n)exceptional ability or bravery
  3. Pungent (adj) having a sharp or strong taste or smell/sarcastic or biting, as in remark
  4. Pyre (n) a pile of wood typically used to burn a body as part of a funeral rite
  5. Qualm (n) a sudden attack of uneasiness or regret
  6. Quarry (n) an object of pursuit or attack
  7. Rampart (n) a battlement, fortification, fortified wall
  8. Raucous (adj) rowdy or disorderly
  9. Ravenous (adj) very hungry
  10. Rebuke (v) to reprimand or scold; (n) a reproach or reprimand
  11. Regalia [n] royal powers or privileges or emblems of royalty
  12. Reparations (n) compensation, amends for wrongs/defeat in war
  13. Reproach (v) to find fault with someone
  14. Revile (v) to speak abusively
  15. Ruck [n] a large quantity or mass of something or a groove
  16. Ruddy (adj) reddish, rosy, flushed, healthy-looking
  17. Rummage (v) to search thoroughly while looking for something, often causing disorder
  18. Sardonic (adj) mocking or sneering in a remark
  19. Savor [v] to perceive by taste or odor with relish
  20. Scant [adj] limited in amount

Part One

Use the context to complete the blank.

  1. Once you have children, time alone is so xxx that you purposely lock yourself in the bathroom to read the news.
  2. Although brusque, her retort was so xxx that the whole class chorused “OOOOh!”
  3. I wouldn’t mind being cremated on (or in) a xxx instead of being buried in an overpriced box next to some person I don’t know.
  4. Bring learning xxx such as books, pencils, and paper to class or you will fail.
  5. The boy had a xxx complexion that seemed to glow after the soccer game.
  6. The class was so xxx when the substitute was present that the teacher next door came to see if there was a fight.
  7. Textbooks are xxx because they are not replaced when students lose them.
  8. Greece just asked Germany to pay xxx from destroying their economy during WWII.
  9. Being a woman can be hard; you are constant xxx of debauched men.
  10. I have to xxx through my house every morning for my keys. One day I will hang them on the key hook.
  11. If you do not complete your nightly homework and then fail the quiz, I have no xxx recording your demise.
  12. I love xxx cheese: the smellier, the better.
  13. My kid is so xxx by five pm that he throws himself on the kitchen floor, screams “more,” and makes signs for milk and food.
  14. Meth users usually have a xxx of pock marks on their face or body from digging imaginary bugs from their skin.
  15. The ballerina displayed her xxx when she lifted the car off of the woman’s body.
  16. Despite their best effort and use of cows as projectiles, the sorry knights could not overcome the castle’s xxx.
  17. The most annoying part of being a teenager is enduring the xxx of every adult in your life when you make a mistake.
  18. Olivia should xxx her success at embodying Poseidon in the project.
  19. Teachers should never xxx students.
  20. The prince’s xxx was posted on the side of his jet, which unfortunately made him a terrorist target.

Part Two

Create your own sentences.

Part Three

Match the synonym with the word.

  1. Provisions
  2. Prowess
  3. Pungent
  4. Pyre
  5. Qualm
  6. Quarry
  7. Rampart
  8. Raucous
  9. Ravenous
  10. Rebuke
  11. Regalia
  12. Reparations
  13. Reproach
  14. Revile
  15. Ruck
  16. Ruddy
  17. Rummage
  18. Sardonic
  19. Savor
  20. Scant
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  1. blushing, pinkish, blooming
  2. slander, revile, nag
  3. horde, assemblage, pack
  4. apprehension, remonstrance, demur
  5. barrier, barricade, obstruction
  6. insatiable, famished, voracious
  7. austere, insufficient, limited
  8. stock, fare, procurement
  9. effluvious, strong, tart
  10. atonement, adjustment, settlement
  11. delve, scour, hunt
  12. taste, partake, appreciate
  13. discordant, boisterous, clamorous
  14. bonfire, heap, blaze
  15. image, identification, adumbration
  16. adroitness, dexterity, bravery
  17. prey, aim, objective
  18. admonish, castigate, reproach
  19. acerbic, bitter, caustic
  20. admonishment, harangue, condemnation

Part Four

Create illustrations for your sentences.