Pre-Reading Vocabulary - Chapters 1 & 2
Pre-reading Vocabulary Worksheets - Mythology
Part One The Gods, The Creation, and the Earliest Heroes
Chapter 1 The Gods Chapter 2 The Two Great Gods of Earth
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 on the lines provided.
1. He was unpitying, inexorable, but just; a terrible, not an evil god.
2. Even more than of these good and lovely endowments, he is the God of Light.
3. They clad her in raiment immortal.
4. Homer calls him murderous, bloodstained, the incarnate curse of mortals.
5. He never was to them the mean whining deity of the Iliad, but magnificent in shining armor, redoubtable, invincible.
6. Quirinus was the name of the deified Romulus, the founder of Rome.
7. ...Zeus a dangerous lover for mortal maidens and completely incalculable in his use of the terrible thunderbolt.
8. When they were not positively harmful they were capricious and undependable.
9. In her desolate wanderings she came to Eleusis and sat by the wayside near a well.
10. He was accompanied, as was his custom, by a train of women dancing and singing exultant songs.