Pre-reading Vocabulary - Chapters 3 & 4
Pre-reading Vocabulary Worksheets – Mythology
Part One The Gods, The Creation, and the Earliest Heroes
Chapter 3 How the World and Mankind Were Created Chapter 4 The Earliest Heroes
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. Erebus is the unfathomable depth where death dwells.
2. Groans shall your speech be, lamentation your only words.
3. It looked like a heifer, but talked like a girl who seemed mad with misery.
4. You-he who succored the whole race of men?
5. Swells on a ship, and ever gently thus they wafted her.
6. He bade each man choose out three rams and bind them with strong, pliant strips of bark.
7. Her voice would ring in his ears calling him a laggard in love.
8. The contrast of this laughing, luxuriant beauty with the clear-cut, austere grandeur all around arrests the attention sharply.