The Sirens were magical beings. What are beings?

The music cast a spell of enchantment. What is enchantment?

Fortunately, a sorceress had given Odysseus advice, and now he told his sailors the plan to follow. What is a sorceress?

No matter what I do, or how I command or plead, do not untie me. What does plead mean?

The words to the song reached Odysseus and made him strain at the ropes. What does strain mean?

The young narrator of the novel is accompanying his professor uncle and a guide named Hans as they try to find the center of the Earth.What does accompanying mean?

This sea is vast. It must be as wide as the Mediterranean or even the Atlantic. What does vast mean?

My uncle tied a heavy pickax to the end of a rope, which he let down two hundred fathoms. There was no bottom. What are fathoms ?

I was puzzled by what caused them until Hans demonstrated snapping his jaws to convey meaning. What does convey mean?

The jaws that held such teeth must have had amazing strength. Was a prehistoric monster living in the depths below? What does prehistoric mean?

My eyes looked fearfully at the sea. I dreaded to see a monster rising from its deep cavern. What is a cavern?

The raft was heaved up on a watery mountain and pitched down again at a great distance. What does heaved mean?

Hans pointed at a dark mass six hundred yards away, rising and falling with heavy plunges. What does "plunges" mean?

Only two monsters were creating the commotion - two reptiles of the prehistoric world. What does commotion mean?

They heaved mountains of water, which rocked our raft perilously, and we were near capsizing again and again. What does perilously mean?

They heaved mountains of water, which rocked our raft perilously, and we were near capsizing again and again. What does capsizing mean?

One hour, two hours passed as the ferocious struggle continued. What does ferocious mean?