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Black Ships Before Troy Vocab Test

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Earthly; human, capable of dying.

a)

mortal

b)

discord

c)

avenge

d)

cowardice

2.

Upset; lack of order; fighting.

a)

discord

b)

avenge

c)

rage

d)

grief

3.

Retaliate; take revenge.

a)

avenge

b)

pestilence

c)

brooding

d)

scorn

4.

Exceeded; went beyond all others

a)

surpassed

b)

rage

c)

prowling

d)

salve

5.

Intense anger, fury.

a)

rage

b)

grief

c)

scorn

d)

drowsy

6.

Sorrow; deep anguish; heartbreak.

a)

grief

b)

brooding

c)

folly

d)

cunning

7.

Revenge; a punishment in return for a wrong someone committed.

a)

vengeance

b)

summon

c)

scorn

d)

drowsy

8.

Holy, blessed, worthy of great respect.

a)

sacred

b)

nursed

c)

frenzy

d)

refuge

9.

United or joined in a common cause or effort.

a)

allied

b)

peril

c)

omen

d)

sanctuary

10.

A generally fatal disease.

a)

pestilence

b)

omen

c)

salve

d)

filth

11.

To be deep in thought and worry.

a)

brooding

b)

refuge

c)

custom

d)

piteous

12.

Call together; send for others.

a)

summon

b)

siege

c)

breach

d)

piteous

13.

The surrounding of a place, such as a town or a city, in an attempt to capture it.

a)

siege

b)

frenzy

c)

rigid

d)

hobbling

14.

Total contempt or disgust felt toward another person or an object.

a)

scorn

b)

breach

c)

allied

d)

rage

15.

A feeling of a lack of courage; feeling of fear when in danger.

a)

cowardice

b)

nursed

c)

breach

d)

folly

16.

Dirty and/or polluted.

a)

fouled

b)

spoils

c)

hideous

d)

custom

17.

To walk energetically with long steps.

a)

strode

b)

prowling

c)

refuge

d)

betray

18.

To hold on to and encourage previous negative feelings.

a)

nursed

b)

salve

c)

hideous

d)

hobbling

19.

Danger that is close at hand.

a)

peril

b)

omen

c)

betray

d)

make amends

20.

To roam about quietly and secretly.

a)

prowling

b)

hobbling

c)

avenge

d)

summon

21.

Sleepy.

a)

drowsy

b)

salve

c)

nursed

d)

grief

22.

Ointment used to heal a wound or reduce pain.

a)

salve

b)

charred

c)

sanctuary

d)

refuge

23.

A sign that is believed to predict the future.

a)

omen

b)

make amends

c)

refuge

d)

summon

24.

An opening or gap.

a)

breach

b)

frenzy

c)

desolate

d)

siege

25.

The property taken from the victims after a battle victory.

a)

spoils

b)

desolate

c)

hobbling

d)

discord

26.

A state of being in wild excitement.

a)

frenzy

b)

folly

c)

charred

d)

cunning

27.

Having a lack of good sense or understanding; foolishness.

a)

folly

b)

rigid

c)

piteous

d)

cowardice

28.

Horrible and highly offensive.

a)

hideous

b)

filth

c)

piteous

d)

scorn

29.

Foul, dirty.

a)

filth

b)

betray

c)

desolate

d)

sacred

30.

Creating a sense of feeling sorry for another.

a)

piteous

b)

betray

c)

rage

d)

vengeance

31.

Appearing burned or scorched.

a)

charred

b)

hobbling

c)

desolate

d)

breach

32.

Safe place or a sacred place such as a church, temple, or mosque.

a)

sanctuary

b)

spoils

c)

salve

d)

sacred

33.

To walk or move along unsteadily and with difficulty; limp.

a)

hobbling

b)

prowling

c)

surpassed

d)

brooding

34.

A practice that is accepted and followed regularly by a group of people.

a)

custom

b)

refuge

c)

omen

d)

drowsy

35.

Not moving; fixed in place.

a)

rigid

b)

hideous

c)

scorn

d)

strode

36.

To repair a damaged relationship; repay or restore to the original.

a)

make amends

b)

betray

c)

breach

d)

salve

37.

Skill at deceptiveness, shrewdness.

a)

cunning

b)

avenge

c)

vengeance

d)

brooding

38.

To make known against someone’s desire or will.

a)

betray

b)

cunning

c)

prowling

d)

pestilence

39.

Empty of life and activity; deserted.

a)

desolate

b)

sanctuary

c)

spoils

d)

hideous

40.

Shelter; safe place.

a)

refuge

b)

drowsy

c)

salve

d)

discord

41.

To compete for.

a)

contend

b)

lament

c)

cunning

d)

swaggered

42.

Soothsayer; fortune-teller.

a)

oracle

b)

stern

c)

tapestry

d)

omen

43.

An expression of great grief.

a)

lament

b)

wretch

c)

suitors

d)

charred

44.

A miserable person who is pitied by other.

a)

wretch

b)

paled

c)

outstripping

d)

suitors

45.

To lose color.

a)

paled

b)

realms

c)

despond

d)

grazed

46.

To crowd in and move together.

a)

thronged

b)

lurched

c)

quenched

d)

beseechingly

47.

To suddenly and unexpectedly move.

a)

lurched

b)

outstripping

c)

stern

d)

pyres

48.

To put out.

a)

quenched

b)

charred

c)

piteous

d)

breach

49.

To leave behind or run faster.

a)

outstripping

b)

siege

c)

fouled

d)

prowling

50.

The rear part of a ship.

a)

stern

b)

despond

c)

pyres

d)

citadel

51.

kingdom; empires

a)

realms

b)

citadel

c)

oracle

d)

refuge

52.

Man who desires to marry a particular woman.

a)

suitors

b)

spoils

c)

folly

d)

filth

53.

Walk in a way that is boastful and arrogant.

a)

swaggered

b)

lurched

c)

paled

d)

hobbling

54.

A fortress or other strong, fortified place of safety and shelter.

a)

citadel

b)

pyres

c)

breach

d)

siege

55.

A pile of material that will burn, and on which a dead body is placed for cremation in some cultures.

a)

pyres

b)

custom

c)

refuge

d)

sacred

56.

A dark and discouraged mood.

a)

despond

b)

lament

c)

cunning

d)

drowsy

57.

A heavy woven multi-colored cloth often showing designs or scenes , and which are hung on the wall for decoration.

a)

tapestry

b)

oracle

c)

salve

d)

spoils

58.

Pleadingly, imploringly. In a begging way.

a)

beseechingly

b)

lament

c)

desolate

d)

make amends

59.

Having been robbed and destroyed by an invading force.

a)

sacked

b)

siege

c)

scorn

d)

strode

60.

To barely touch.

a)

grazed

b)

thronged

c)

swaggered

d)

charred