Freshman Vocabulary Q3.3

This describes a book but not the ideas in it, a flower but not its smell,

a valentine but not the feeling it gives you.

• tangible

• quarry

• droll

• amenity

someone who refuses to accept established views, beliefs or attitudes

• Penury

• Martial

• Invocation

• Heretic

the basis on which something is developed

• foundation

• restrict

• aspiring

• promote

Marathon runners need a great deal of _____ to cover the many miles.

• Disinterested
• Billow
• Stamina
• Constrain

What is the definition of "revelry"?

• Sadness

• Merrymaking

• Silence

• Anger

Which of the following is the correct definition of an archetype?

• The repetition and prevalence of antagonistic characters.

• Schemes and formulas derived from the common orator.

• A pattern that appears in literature across cultures and time.

• A system of analysis used to determine cross-cultural characterization.

What is the definition of BEMUSING in The Odyssey, Part 2?

• Feeling confused

• Feeling amused

• Feeling of belonging

• Feeling of sadness

To disguise or conceal

• dissemble

• Epic Simile

• impudence

• incredulity

I opened the important letter with _____ fingers, nervous if I'd been accepted.

• Tremulous

• Disdainful

• Rasping

• Disdainful

In Book 12, Odysseus tells us “And all this time, in travail, sobbing, gaining on the current, we rowed into the strait—Scylla to port and on our starboard beam Charybdis, dire gorge of the salt sea tide. Which word means the same or nearly the same as ‘travail’?

• painful effort

• ease
• a form of anger

• effort