Vocabulary
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The Dreaded
Greek Verb
100

The positive aspect of 'work.'

What is ἔργον?

100

These three cases look the same for neuter nouns.

What are the nominative, accusative, and vocative?

100

This word, often misleadlingly translated "love," frequently had connotations of danger.

What is ἔρως?

100

Anything right after the article appears in this position.

What is the attributive position?

100
These two letters, when augmented, become -η.

What are epsilon and alpha?

200

The preposition we learned that can indicate motion to or from, or location, depending on the noun's case.

What is παρά?

200

This case can express the manner in which something is done.

What is the dative case?

200

The Hellenistic poet Callimachus' famous comment about book size, which begins μέγα βιβλίον, μέγα...., finishes with this word.

What is κακόν?

200

Verbs of speaking and thinking might introduce this construction.

What is indirect statement? [Or 'indirect discourse.']

200

This principle part means (by definition) 'I verbed' [once].

What is the third principle part?

300

Four postpositive words in Ancient Greek.

What are μέν, δέ, γάρ, τε? (οὖν, γε, and δή are also acceptable)

300

This case can be used with a preposition to identify the person(s) who perform the action of a passive verb.

What is the genitive case?

300

While ancient Greek priests did not much care what one believed about the gods, this group of people did.

Who were "the philosophers"?

300
The subject of an indirect statement appears in what grammatical case?

What is the accusative?

300

Three verbs we learned that have special meanings in the middle voice.

What are λύω, πείθω and παύω? (πράττω is also acceptable as one of the three)

400

Two words meaning 'I trust.'

What are πιστεύω and πείθομαι?

400

This case, as it appears in the dictionary, can reliably tell us the stem of a noun.

What is the genetive case?

400

This ancient Greek writer declared that ὁ νόμος πάντων βασιλεύς.

Who was Herodotus?

400

A relative pronoun gets its gender and number from this word.

What is the antecedent?

400

A present tense verb ending in -ει is most likely going to be 3rd p. sing. act. But it might be this instead.

What is the 2nd person singular middle/passive?

500

The most common meaning of the Ancient Greek word οὕ [not οὐ] (i.e., translated into English).

What is "of whom"? [Also acceptable: What is "whose"? Or "of which"?]

500

This technical term describes a language, like Ancient Greek or Latin, that relies more or cases (and other morphology) than on word order to communicate meaning.

What is inflection? OR What is an inflected language?

500

This philosophical school was important for the ancient readers of John 1.1.

Who were the Stoics?

500

The literal meaning (in English) of a future passive infinitive of any given verb.

What is "to be about to be verbed"?

500

The letters ασο, in a Greek verb ending, interact between themselves - with this result.

What is ω?

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