The Odyssey - Part One-1 Vocabulary
Across
- 9. (adj-noun) repulsive scoundrel
- 12. island off the west coast of Greece
- 15. Titan sun god of Ancient Greece
- 17. goddess-nymph of the sea who has been exiled to Ogygia
- 20. (noun) loud, continuous noise; uproar
- 21. (noun) sudden thought or wish to do something
- 23. goddess of wisdom, skills, and warfare
- 24. god of music, poetry, prophecy, and medicine
- 25. (noun) area sheltered from the wind
- 26. titan who was ruler of the universe until he was overthrown by his son Zeus
- 29. (verb) made a hole in
- 30. (noun) drink of the gods
- 31. Greeks; sometimes used to refer to Odysseus' men
- 32. a sorceress who was the daughter of Helios and the ocean nymph Perse
- 37. (adj) wise
- 38. king of the gods and leader of the
- 39. god of the sea, earthquakes, horses, and storms at sea
- 43. (verb) took something by force
- 44. (noun) group of person who have run away from danger
- 46. (noun) craftiness; cunning
Down
- 1. king who led the Greek army during the Trojan War
- 2. (noun) plural form of cyclops; race of giants with one in the middle of the forehead
- 3. (noun) pair
- 4. (verb) finished something quickly
- 5. (noun) tree branches
- 6. (verb phrase) exposed to the weather to age wood
- 7. (adj) rebellious
- 8. (adj) located in or on the chest
- 10. (adj) enormous
- 11. (adj) made from tough, flexible twigs
- 13. (verb phrase) chopped down young tree branches and limbs
- 14. a Thracian tribe mentioned in book two of the Iliad as having joined the war on the side of the Trojans
- 16. (adj) several; various
- 18. (noun) food of the gods
- 19. (verb) to get revenge
- 22. (noun) military strategies and procedures
- 27. (verb phrase) close a case holding arrows
- 28. (noun) thin, watery part of milk separated from the thicker curds
- 33. city in northwest Asia Minor; also Ilium or Ilion; the city besieged in the Greek epic poem called The Iliad
- 34. (verb) tried something dangerous
- 35. (noun) fate or destiny
- 36. (noun) food or other provisions
- 40. (noun) young goats
- 41. (noun) any one of the nine goddesses of the arts
- 42. (noun) small sailing vessel
- 45. (noun) units of money in ancient Greece