1. The Odyssey
Homer

3. Part One Supplemental Vocabulary
The Odyssey by Homer
Part One
Supplemental Vocabulary

4. Epithet A word or phrase used to describe someone
Zeus the lord of the cloud

5. Epic Simile
An epic simile is an extended simile developed over several lines.
Example:

6. Example
Having a snow day is like a day at the beach. I can lounge on my sofa as if it were my multicolored stripped beach chair. I can close my eyes and listen to my favorite television shows as if it were the waves crashing upon the shore. It is total peace and relaxation as I drift to sleep to all of the sounds around me.

7. Invocation A serious request. A prayer asking for help.
The Odyssey begins with an invocation on page 595 (blue) the poet asks for inspiration in telling the story of his hero…it also gives a brief summary of the hero’s adventures

8. Muse
One of the goddesses who preside over the arts.

9. Vocabulary Seventeen words! Know them!
Part One
Vocabulary Seventeen words! Know them!

10. Formidable
Adjective
Very impressive
Men hold me formidable.

11. Guile Noun Cunning Slyness
Men hold me formidable for guile in peace and war.

12. Muster (ed) Verb To gather
All ships’ companies mustered alongside for the midday meal.

13. Indifferent
Adjective
Without interest in

14. Victual (vital) Noun Food
A wineskin full I brought along and victuals in a bag.

15. Civility
Noun
Politeness
…a wild man, ignorant of civility.

16. Appall (ed) Adjective Horrified
We cried aloud, lifting our hands to Zeus, powerless, looking at this, appalled…

17. Ponderous Adjective Extremely heavy thoughts
…we could never move his ponderous doorway slab inside.

18. Lugger (lagger)
Noun
A small sailing vessel

19. Profusion
Noun
An abundance

20. Shipwright Noun Carpenter who builds or repairs ships
I leaned on it turning it as a shipwright turns a drill.

21. Smithy Noun A workshop where metal is heated and worked
In a smithy one sees a white-hot axhead or an adz.

22. Adz
Noun
An ax-like tool

23. Hale
Adjective
Strong
… the way they make soft iron hale.

24. Mammoth Adjective Gigantic
Out of the cave the mammoth Polyphemus roared in answer:

25. Breach
Noun
An opening or gap (in a wall)

26. Titanic
Adjective
Huge

27. Part One Vocabulary
“The Sirens”, “Scylla and Charybdis”, “The Cattle of the Sun God”

28. Nymph
Noun
A nature goddess

29. Brace (s)
Noun
Rope used to swing or secure the sails of a ship

30. Plumb
Adverb
Exactly

31. Ardor
Noun
Great passion; emotional warmth

32. Founder (ing)
Verb
To sink

33. Comber (s)
Noun
Large ocean wave

34. Travail
Noun
Agony

35. Spume
Noun
Foam or froth

36. Blanch (ed)
Verb
To pale

37. Grapple
Noun
A grip

38. Appease
Verb
To satisfy

39. Supplication
Noun
A humble prayer or request

40. Insidious
Adjective
Treacherous

41. Entrails
Noun
Internal organs of humans or animals

42. Tripe
Noun
The stomach lining of cattle used as food

43. Overweening
Adjective
Overbearing

44. Restitution
Noun
The making good or paying for damage or loss

45. Forestay(s)
Noun
A rope supporting the front mast of a ship

46. Bilge
Noun
The water around the lower part of a ship

47. Contentious
Adjective
Quarrelsome; ready to argue