Pre-Reading Vocabulary - Introduction
Pre-reading Vocabulary Worksheets - Mythology
SPECIAL MYTHOLOGICAL TERMS
Introduction Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Context Clues
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean.
1. Greek and Roman mythology is quite generally supposed to show us the way the human race thought and felt untold years ago.
2 & 3. Anyone in the woods might see through the trees a fleeing nymph, or bending over a clear pool to drink, behold in the depths a naiad’s face.
4. In Egypt, a towering colossus, immobile, beyond the power of the imagination to endow with movement.
5. Nevertheless he was not omnipotent or omniscient either. He could be opposed and deceived.
6. ...a humanized world, men freed from the paralyzing fear of an omnipotent Unknown.
7. The fauns were Roman satyrs.
8 & 9. Dwelling in Olympus, they are happy all their days, feasting upon nectar and ambrosia.
10. The dryad who would have perished with it told him to ask anything he desired and she would give it to him.