The Odyssey Vocabulary: Unit Six
- Provisions (n) supplies, necessities, food/water rations
- Prowess (n)exceptional ability or bravery
- Pungent (adj) having a sharp or strong taste or smell/sarcastic or biting, as in remark
- Pyre (n) a pile of wood typically used to burn a body as part of a funeral rite
- Qualm (n) a sudden attack of uneasiness or regret
- Quarry (n) an object of pursuit or attack
- Rampart (n) a battlement, fortification, fortified wall
- Raucous (adj) rowdy or disorderly
- Ravenous (adj) very hungry
- Rebuke (v) to reprimand or scold; (n) a reproach or reprimand
- Regalia [n] royal powers or privileges or emblems of royalty
- Reparations (n) compensation, amends for wrongs/defeat in war
- Reproach (v) to find fault with someone
- Revile (v) to speak abusively
- Ruck [n] a large quantity or mass of something or a groove
- Ruddy (adj) reddish, rosy, flushed, healthy-looking
- Rummage (v) to search thoroughly while looking for something, often causing disorder
- Sardonic (adj) mocking or sneering in a remark
- Savor [v] to perceive by taste or odor with relish
- Scant [adj] limited in amount
Part One
Use the context to complete the blank.
- Once you have children, time alone is so xxx that you purposely lock yourself in the bathroom to read the news.
- Although brusque, her retort was so xxx that the whole class chorused “OOOOh!”
- 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.
- Bring learning xxx such as books, pencils, and paper to class or you will fail.
- The boy had a xxx complexion that seemed to glow after the soccer game.
- The class was so xxx when the substitute was present that the teacher next door came to see if there was a fight.
- Textbooks are xxx because they are not replaced when students lose them.
- Greece just asked Germany to pay xxx from destroying their economy during WWII.
- Being a woman can be hard; you are constant xxx of debauched men.
- I have to xxx through my house every morning for my keys. One day I will hang them on the key hook.
- If you do not complete your nightly homework and then fail the quiz, I have no xxx recording your demise.
- I love xxx cheese: the smellier, the better.
- 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.
- Meth users usually have a xxx of pock marks on their face or body from digging imaginary bugs from their skin.
- The ballerina displayed her xxx when she lifted the car off of the woman’s body.
- Despite their best effort and use of cows as projectiles, the sorry knights could not overcome the castle’s xxx.
- The most annoying part of being a teenager is enduring the xxx of every adult in your life when you make a mistake.
- Olivia should xxx her success at embodying Poseidon in the project.
- Teachers should never xxx students.
- 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.
- Provisions
- Prowess
- Pungent
- Pyre
- Qualm
- Quarry
- Rampart
- Raucous
- Ravenous
- Rebuke
- Regalia
- Reparations
- Reproach
- Revile
- Ruck
- Ruddy
- Rummage
- Sardonic
- Savor
- Scant
- blushing, pinkish, blooming
- slander, revile, nag
- horde, assemblage, pack
- apprehension, remonstrance, demur
- barrier, barricade, obstruction
- insatiable, famished, voracious
- austere, insufficient, limited
- stock, fare, procurement
- effluvious, strong, tart
- atonement, adjustment, settlement
- delve, scour, hunt
- taste, partake, appreciate
- discordant, boisterous, clamorous
- bonfire, heap, blaze
- image, identification, adumbration
- adroitness, dexterity, bravery
- prey, aim, objective
- admonish, castigate, reproach
- acerbic, bitter, caustic
- admonishment, harangue, condemnation
Part Four
Create illustrations for your sentences.