The Odyssey Books 18-24 Vocabulary

Intervene

• come between to prevent or alter a result or course of events

• an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense

• an event causing great and often sudden damage or suffering; a disaster.

• be enough or adequate

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Parasite

• provide (a house or room) with furniture and fittings

• an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense

• an event causing great and often sudden damage or suffering; a disaster.

• be enough or adequate

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Catastrophe

• provide (a house or room) with furniture and fittings

• a hard fatty substance made from rendered animal fat, used in making candles and soap.

• an event causing great and often sudden damage or suffering; a disaster

• be enough or adequate

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Suffice

• provide (a house or room) with furniture and fittings

• a hard fatty substance made from rendered animal fat, used in making candles and soap.

• aggressively greedy or grasping

• be enough or adequate

Furnish

• provide (a house or room) with furniture and fittings

• a hard fatty substance made from rendered animal fat, used in making candles and soap.

• aggressively greedy or grasping

• extreme happiness or elation

Tallow

•  a woman with questionable morals 

• a hard fatty substance made from rendered animal fat, used in making candles and soap.

• aggressively greedy or grasping

• extreme happiness or elation

Rapacious

• disinfect or purify (an area) with the fumes of certain chemicals

• aggressively greedy or grasping

• extreme happiness or elation

• a woman with questionable morals

Exult

• come between to prevent or alter a result or course of events

• extreme happiness or elation

•  a woman with questionable morals

• disinfect or purify (an area) with the fumes of certain chemicals

Harlot

• a woman with questionable morals

• disinfect or purify (an area) with the fumes of certain chemicals

• disinfect or purify (an area) with the fumes of certain chemicals

• an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense

Fumigate

• an event causing great and often sudden damage or suffering; a disaster.

• disinfect or purify (an area) with the fumes of certain chemicals

• come between to prevent or alter a result or course of events

• an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense