Odyssey Vocabulary Review
Across
- 4. a long poem, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation
- 6. companion who shares one's activities or is a fellow member of an organization
- 8. aggressively greedy or grasping
- 10. female divinities, minor goddesses; nature spirits
- 13. feel or show triumphant elation or jubilation
- 15. perfect happiness; great joy
- 17. an event causing great and often sudden damage or suffering; a disaster
- 19. deserving or causing feelings of sympathy or pity
- 20. a defect in the character of a good person that causes his or her destruction
- 21. a very small or inadequate amount of money
- 24. create difficulties for (someone or something), resulting in delay or obstruction
- 25. give reluctantly or resentfully
- 27. disinfect or purify an area
- 29. tie or fasten (something) tightly
- 30. punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong
Down
- 1. a languishing or a fruitless longing for what is impossible
- 2. pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely; hopeless
- 3. stand or wait around idly or without apparent purpose
- 5. a great public sacrifice, originally of a hundred oxen
- 7. a feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness
- 9. “in the middle of things”
- 11. a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events
- 12. worn out or ruined because of age or neglect; old
- 14. serious and immediate danger
- 16. call on (a deity or spirit) in prayer, as a witness, or for inspiration
- 18. be enough or adequate
- 22. prevent someone from accomplishing something
- 23. find (something) out for certain; make sure of
- 26. extremely distasteful; unacceptable
- 28. beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something