The Song of Achilles Vocabulary Check - Chs 1-5 EK22JC

The runners are gathered before the ________ where my father and I sit, surrounded by prizes

we will give to the winners.

• dais

• taut

• dispersing

• obsidian

My father has given it to me ___________. He reassures himself: all I have to do is hold it.

• grudgingly

• taut

• dispersing

• spare

My eye catches on a light head among dozens of dark, ___________ crowns.

• tousled

• taut

• dispersing

• spare

They're in their first flush of growth, bones sharp and spindly, poking against __________ skin

• tousled

• taut

• dispersing

• spare

I am skipping stones for her, plink, plink, plink, across the skin of the sea.

She seems to like the way the ripples look, ______________ back to glass.

• tousled

• taut

• dispersing

• dais

I felt the unrest in the room. An oath? And over such ___ ______________ matter

as a woman choosing her husband. The men were suspicious.

• an unconventional

• a taut

• a dispersing

• a gnarled

Sometime later, they found me by the ___________ ankles of an olive tree.

• unconventional

• taut

• dispersing

• gnarled

But for the sea nymph Thetis nothing could ever eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal, ____________.

• warren

• mediocrity

• treble

• gnarled

The complex was built like a rabbit __________, full of twisting corridors and sudden inner rooms.

• warren

• skew

• treble

• gnarl

He did not ________ nor pout as other handsome children did.

• preen

• skew

• treble

• gnarl