Pre-reading Vocabulary - Chapters 13 & 14
Pre-reading Vocabulary Worksheets - Mythology
Part Four The Heroes of the Trojan War
Chapter 13 The Trojan War Chapter 14 The Fall of Troy
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. Her reputed father, King Tyndareus, her mother’s husband, was afraid to select one.
2. Her thoughts were busy as to how she might help the Greeks and circumvent Zeus.
3. But Diomedes raged on, working havoc in the Trojan ranks.
4. A brother of Hector’s, wise in discerning the will of the gods, urged Hector to go with all speed to the city.
5. “Try to find some way of appeasing him,” he said, “instead of going home disgraced.”
6. Patroclus, Achilles’ beloved friend, saw the rout with horror.
7. She was to tell him that violent as Achilles was, he was not really evil, but one who could treat properly a suppliant.
8. His name was Sinon, and he was a most plausible speaker.
9. He was a pious youth with the most admirable filial sentiments.
10. The wooden horse had been made, as he said, as a votive offering to Athena.