Odyssey Vocabulary List

Odyssey Vocabulary List 1

1. Talon - The claw of a bird of prey 2. Suitor – A man who is proposing marriage 3. Ardor – Fiery intensity of feeling 4. Tumult – Noise, uproar, commotion 5. Travail – Labor, Hardship 6. Adversary – An opponent, enemy 7. Contend – To fight, compete 8. Libation – The pouring of a liquid offering as a religious ritual 9. Revelry – Boisterous merrymaking 10. Valor – Courage and boldness, as in battle; bravery 11. Rogue – An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; rascal 12. Squall – A brief, sudden, violent windstorm 13. Victuals – Food; Supplies 14. Maelstrom – Great whirlpool, violent emotions 15. Maudlin – Effusively or tearfully sentimental often due to drunkenness 16. Guile – Trickery, dishonesty, craftiness 17. Titanic – Having great stature or enormous strength; huge or colossal 18. Formidable – Arousing fear, dread, or alarm 19. Prodigious – Impressively great in size, force, or extent; enormous 20. Insidious – Intended to trap; treacherous

Odyssey Vocabulary List 2

1. Contentious – Quarrelsome, argumentative 2. Embark – To go aboard a craft or vessel; to set out on a venture 3. Smote – To inflict a heavy blow on, with or as if with the hand 4. Conjure – To summon by magic or supernatural power 5. Spar – To box, especially to make boxing motions without hitting 6. Sustain – To keep in existence; maintain 7. Muster – To call troops together, as for inspection, assemble, gather 8. Shroud – To wrap or cover (a corpse) in burial clothing 9. Cower – To tremble in fear 10. Wane – To decrease gradually in size, amount, intensity, or degree 11. Plundered – Took goods by force; looted 12. Dispatched – Finished quickly 13. Assuage – Calm; pacify 14. Bereft – Deprived 15. Dissemble – Conceal under a false appearance; disguise 16. Incredulity – Unwillingness of inability to believe 17. Bemusing – Stupefying or muddling 18. Equity – Fairness; justice 19. Contempt – Disdain or scorn 20. Atone – To make amends for; to repent and ask for forgiveness