The Odyssey- Books 11-15 Vocabulary

a profoundly wise man, especially one who features in ancient history or legend

• Sage

• Ascertain

• Implore

• Bind

find (something) out for certain

• Ascertain

• Implore

• Bind

beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something

• Repugnant

• Swineherd

• Implore

• Bind

tie or fasten (something) tightly

• Swineherd

• Oracle

• Bind

• Repugnant

extremely distasteful; unacceptable.

• Swineherd

• Oracle

• Pittance

• Repugnant

a person who tends pigs.

• Blunt

• Swineherd

• Oracle

• Pittance

a priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods in classical antiquity

• Peril

• Blunt

• Oracle

• Pittance

a very small or inadequate amount of money paid to someone as an allowance or wage

• Pittance

• Blunt

• Peril

• Sage

uncompromisingly forthright

• Ascertain

• Sage

• Blunt

• Peril

serious and immediate danger.

• Peril

• Sage

• Ascertain

• Implore