Odyssey Book XXI Vocabulary

a stick or spindle onto which wool or flax is wound for spinning

• distaff

• poise

• aslant

• genteel

a drink poured out as an offering to a deity

• libation

• mortify

• appalled

• tamp

cause (someone) to feel embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated.

• mortify

• steward

• contender

• virtuoso

a person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit.

• virtuoso

• poise

• realm

• abroad

 polite, refined, or respectable, often in an affected or ostentatious way

• genteel

• grisly

• loath

• rein

causing horror or disgust.

• grisly

• aslant

• distaff

• virtuoso

at an angle or in a sloping direction

• aslant

• commandeer

• poise

• steward

a person or group competing with others to achieve something.

• contender

• rein

• mawkish

• embassy

greatly dismayed or horrified.

• appalled

• libation

• virtuoso

• gracious

reluctant; unwilling.

• loath

• abroad

• realm

• distaff