Pre-reading Vocabulary - Chapters 5 & 6
Pre-reading Vocabulary Worksheets - Mythology
Part Two Stories of Love and Adventure
Chapter 5 Cupid and Psyche Chapter 6 Eight Brief Tales of Lovers
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 seemed a very goddess consorting with mere mortals.
2. ...to do her homage as though she were in truth one of the immortals.
3. “But really,” she said, “you are so plain and ill-favored a girl that you will never be able to get you a lover except by the most diligent and painful service.”
4. No; he was a horrible serpent and she loathed him.
5. She offered ardent prayers to them perpetually, but not one of them would do anything.
6. The conclusion was inevitable.
7. She ventured to go back to the tree of the tryst, the mulberry with the shining white fruit.
8. She determined to help a young man who could be enamored and yet original.
9. The alliance had become eminently suitable.
10. Such was the wondrous power of this disdainful young man.