(Godfrey) Blended Mythology

Pre-reading Vocabulary Worksheets - Mythology

Part Four The Heroes of the Trojan War

Chapter 15 The Adventures of Odysseus   Chapter 16 The Adventures of Aeneas

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. She enticed into her house the party Odysseus dispatched to spy out the land.

2. She treated them with kindness, feasting them sumptuously in her house.

3. So rang their song in lovely cadences.

4. He succeeded in reaching the Phaeacian land, a helpless destitute man.

5. An angry clamor broke out at the words.

6. Virgil is responsible for the change from the human Aeneas of the first books to the unhuman prodigy of the last.

7. ...and reaching Italy far to the north of the whirlpool of implacable Charybdis.

8. ...his face squalid in the extreme with a thick growth of hair.

9. She was known to be not susceptible. All the kings of the country had tried to persuade her to marry them with no success.

10. The king went forth with two great dogs following him, his sole retinue and bodyguard.