Quizlet The Odyssey

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  1. baleful: deadly, sinister
  2. buffets: to strike against forcefully
  3. clamor: to exclaim insistently and noisily
  4. cunning: crafty, sly
  5. desolation: ruin
  6. din: A jumble of loud, usually discordant sounds
  7. dissemble: to disguise or conceal behind a false appearance
  8. divining and divination: To know by inspiration, intuition or reflection; (n) An indication of what is future or secret, prediction
  9. engendering: to bring into existence
  10. foreboading: to prophecy or predict
  11. hekatomb: sacrificing of 100 cattle
  12. illustrios: well-known and very distinguished
  13. insolent: audaciously rude or disrespectful
  14. lament: mourn
  15. lithe: limber; capable of being easily bent
  16. malice: a desire to harm others or see others suffer
  17. mulled: to go over extensively in the mind, ponder
  18. ordained: fixed or established
  19. pacify: to ease the anger or agitation
  20. patrimony: An inheritance from a father or other ancestor
  21. precedence: superiority
  22. relent: to give in, as in influence or pressure
  23. renown: state of being much known and talked of
  24. retainer: A servant or attendant, especially one in the household of a person of high rank
  25. revel: to take great pleasure or delight; to pluck, retract, pull back
  26. rite: a ceremonial act or series of acts
  27. sage: having or exhibiting wisdom or wise judgment
  28. shroud: a cloth used to wrap a body for burial
  29. stratagem: a military maneuver designed to deceive or surprise an enemy
  30. surfeit: overindulgence in food or drink