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Vocabulary
Count of Monte Cristo
Odyssey
Oedipus
Usage
100
ordinary or dull
What is pedestrian?
100
What is Edmond Dantes arrested for?
What is being accused of being an agent of the Bonapartist faction.
100
What us Zeus' command to calypso?
What is to let Odysseus go?
100
What does Odysseus do when he finds his dead wife?
What is he rips out his eyes and blinds himself?
100
I will not (accept, except) your apology
What is accept?
200
sad or mournful poem
What is elegy?
200
Why does Monsieur de Villefort burn the letter that was addressed to Monsieur Noirtier?
What is to protect his father and to remove all suspicion of him being affiliated with his father (Noirtier) in aiding the Bonapartists.
200
How did Odysseus' and his men escape Polyphemus' cave?
What is tying themselves to the bellies of Polyphemus' sheep?
200
What is Oedipus' adoptive dad's name?
What is Polybos?
200
Jake looks (bad, awful) in tight clothes?
What is bad?
300
worn out; barren
What is effete?
300
How is Edmond Dantes able to escape from the Chateau d'If?
What is he got in Abbe Faria's shroud and escaped after being thrown into the ocean.
300
Who is the first person Odysseus shoot at his house?
What is Antinous?
300
How was Oedipus able to take the throne of Thebes?
What is by solving the Sphinx's riddle.
300
There is (less, fewer) homework today than yesterday,
What is less?
400
rich, luxurious; wealthy
What is opulent?
400
How is Edmond Dantes able to get back at Monsieur Danglars?
What is he sent telegraphs with false information to make Danglars make foolish investments. In this way, Danglars lost much of his fortune.
400
What is the name of the creature that makes whirlpools?
What is Charybdis
400
What does the chorus state about fate?
What is they say it is inevitable?
400
The seagull (dove, dived) into the water for the fish.
What is dived?
500
comical; jocular; flippant
What is facetious?
500
Why is the Count of Monte Cristo willing to allow Albert de Morcerf to shoot him?
What is Mercedes begs him to spare her son.
500
What do Odysseus' men offer Helios before killing the cattle?
What is to build a temple when they get back home?
500
What is the significance and irony in Greek Mythology about blindness?
What is one is blind mentally when they can see with their eyes but can see the truth when they are physically blind.
500
My dog was so tired it wanted to (lie, lay) on the grass.
What is lie?