Quizlet The Odyssey Vocabulary Books 1-4

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  1. baleful: deadly, dangerous
  2. beguiling: deluding, decieving
  3. buffets: to strike against forcefully, batter
  4. clamor: to exclaim insistently and noisily
  5. cunning: marked by deceptiveness and subletly
  6. desolation: devestation, ruin
  7. din: jumble of loud sounds
  8. dissemble: to disguise or conceal behind a false appearance
  9. divining/divination: divining-to know by inspiration, intuition or r seflection; divination- prediction
  10. engendering: to generate, procreate, bring to existence
  11. foreboding: to indicate the likelihood of; to predict or prophecy
  12. hekatomb: sacrifice to the gods consisting of 100 oxen or cattle
  13. illustrious: well-known and distinguished;eminent
  14. insolent: rude, disrespectful; impertinent
  15. lament: to express grief; mourn
  16. lithe: flexible, easily bent
  17. malice: desire to harm others or see others suffer; extreme ill, spite
  18. mulled: to think over a lot, ponder
  19. ordained: predestined; fixed or established by order or command
  20. pacify: to ease angir or agitation
  21. patrimony: inheritance from a father or other ancestor
  22. precedence: prioirty claimed or recieved
  23. relent: to cause to be less harsh or severe; to give in
  24. renown: state of being much known and talked of
  25. retainers: servant/attendant (esp. in the household of a highly ranked or celebrated person)
  26. revel: to take great pleasure or delight; to pull back, retract
  27. rite: ceremonial/religious act
  28. sage: harving or exhibiting wisdom
  29. stratagem: military maneuver designed to trick or surprise enemy
  30. surfeit: overindulgence in food or drink