Pre-reading Vocabulary - Chapters 7 & 8
Pre-reading Vocabulary Worksheets - Mythology
Part Two Stories of Love and Adventure
Chapter 7 The Quest of the Golden Fleece Chapter 8 Four Great Adventures
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. However, they were all heroes of renown, and they were quite equal to their adventures.
2&3. The usurper Pelias had been told by an oracle that he would die at the hands of a kinsman.
4. And now both were fixing their eyes on the ground abashed.
5. If I can make your baseness manifest.
6. She was a most singular portent, a lion in front, a serpent behind, a goat in between.
7. He is a very pedestrian writer.
8. The torrent of Medea’s wrongs burst forth.