Quizlet English vocab the Odyssey book

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  1. baleful: deadly, sinister
  2. buffets: to strike against forcefully
  3. clamor: to exclaim insistently and noisily
  4. cunning: given ability to deceive
  5. desolation: ruin, devestation
  6. din: a jumble of loud and harsh sounds
  7. dissemble: to disguise or conceal behind a false appearance
  8. divining and divination: to know by inspiration, prediction
  9. engendering: to bring into existence
  10. foreboding: to indicate the likelihood of, portend; to prophecy or predict
  11. hekatomb: a sacrifice of 100 oxen/cattle
  12. illustrious: well-known, distinguished
  13. insolent: extremely disrespectful
  14. lament: mourn
  15. lithe: flexible, limber
  16. malice: extreme ill will or spite
  17. mulled: to ponder extensively
  18. ordained: predestined
  19. pacify: to ease anger or agitation of
  20. patrimony: an inheritance from a father or other ancestor
  21. precedence: claimed or received because of superiority
  22. relent: to give in
  23. renown: the state of being famous
  24. retainers: a servant or attendant
  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 wisdom
  28. shroud: a cloth used to wrap a body for burial
  29. stratagem: military maneuver designed to deceive or surprise an enemy
  30. surfeit: overindulgence in food or drink