Percy Jackson - Vocab Weeks 1 & 2

Annotate

• main idea

• make notes

• unable to read or write

• taking a test

gist

• a story about ancient gods

• to take notes

• first impression when reading something new

• feeling like a winner

inference

• living forever, unable to die

• making notes as you read

• kicked out of some place

• educated guess we make as we read

prophecy

• a prediction of the future

• notes we take when we read

• inability to die, living forever

• urge to steal things, even when they aren't needed

myth

• someone who cannot die, who lives forever

• initial impression we get when we first read something

• a traditional story or early history, used to explain unknown phenomena

• someone or something being held captive

mythology

• the study of traditional stories that were used to explain unknown phenomena

• the study of immorality

• the study of reading and writing disabilities

Fill in the blank: It felt like ____________ when the two met, like they were meant to be together for the entire lives.

• mythology

• immortality

• dyslexia

• fate

Acrisios _____________ his daughter in a dungeon.

• imprisoned

• stunned

• prophesized

• expelled

Danae was so beautiful and ________________ that Zeus couldn't take his eyes off her.

• imprisoned

• stunning

• immortal

• triumphant

Percy struggled with ___________, which made reading and writing difficult for him.

• immortality

• dystopia

• mythology

• dyslexia