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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
The Greeks
The Trojans
100
Verb: To make filthy, to violate the honor of
What is defile?
100
Noun: widespread distruction
What is havoc?
100
Verb: to quiet, supress
What is quell?
100
He fights on their side, but fights only for himself.
Who is Achilles?
100
The face that launched 1,000 ships belongs to this beauty, Menelaus's wife. But perhaps this belongs with the Greeks.
Who is Helen?
200
Noun: a loud confused noise or outcry
What is clamor?
200
Verb: to feel great joy, especially in conquest or triumph
What is exult?
200
Verb: to avoid or escape.
What is elude?
200
King of the Greeks, hated by Achilles.
Who is Agamemnon?
200
He protects the Trojans, but is disrespected by Achilles, who chops off the head of his statue.
Who is Apollo?
300
Noun: a source of grreat suffering or destruction
What is a scourge?
300
Adjective: Sharpened
What is whetted?
300
Verb: to escape by cleverness or deception.
What is evade?
300
Because Agememnon took her and would not gve her back, Achilles stopped fighting for the Greeks.
Who is Briseis?
300
Although Achilles claims he "has no peer in war among Achean [Greek} captains, his closest peer in actually this Trojan.
Who is Hector?
400
Adjective: Open to attack; easily hurt
What is vulnerable?
400
Adjective: very heavy
What is ponderous?
400
Adjective: disregarding in a contemptuous way; scorning
What is flouting?
400
He wore Achilles's armor when Achilles refused to fight for Agememnon, and died at Hector's hand, though Hector thought he was someone else.
Who is Patrocles, Achilles's cousin?
400
How long are the funeral games (rituals) for Hector, Prince of Troy, and what does Achilles promise Priam about them?
What is 12 days?
500
Adjective: Lacking in resources; bereft
What is destitute?
500
Verb: To hold onself back deliberately
What is abstain?
500
Noun: a bringing to mind
What is evocation?
500
This expression refers to a person's greatest weakness.
What is an Achilles' heel?
500
I am the author of this poem. According to history, I am blind.
Who is Homer?