Odyssey vocab. Flashcards

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Harried

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Tormented; harassed

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Foreboding

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A sense of approaching evil

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Meditation

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The act of being in serious, reflective thought

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Ponderous

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Heavy in a clumsy way; bulky

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Profusion

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abundance

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Travail

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A painful effort

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Abominably

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In a hateful way; horribly

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Adversary

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An opponent; enemy

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Appalled

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Filled with dismay; horrified

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Ardor

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Passion

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Assuage

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To claim or to pacify

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Beguiling

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Charming; pleasing

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Epithet

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A word, character, object, image, metaphor, idea or phase that recurs in a work

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Allusion

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Reference to a famous person, place, thing, or idea in literate

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Epic

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A long narrative poem

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