Odyssey Vocabulary Review

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