God who does NOT want Odysseus to get home

Odysseus’s homeland

At the beginning of the story she is holding Odysseus hostage on an island

Odysseus’s son

Odysseus’s chief advocate on Mount Olympus

Odysseus’s wife

Brings the message to Calypso that she must part with Odysseus

Giant Cannibals

Place where Odysseus’ journey began

Most powerful of all the Cyclopes

People whose city was sacked by Odysseus and his men

People who eat mellow fruit

King of Phaeacia

This nymph saved Odysseus from drowning

A bold or daring feat

To spend or use extravagantly or wastefully

To recede

Shining

Not controlled or restrained

To make continual twisting and squirming movements of the body

A stock of money or valued objects

A scolding or a long or intense verbal attack

Causing harm or ruin

Based on the context below, determine if the vocabulary word has a Positive Connotation or a Negative Connotation

“But no, the gods thwart his passage. Yet I tell you the great Odysseus is not dead. He’s still alive, somewhere in this wide world, held captive, out at sea on a wave-washed island, and hard men, savages, somehow hold him back against his will.”

Based on the context below, determine if the vocabulary word has a Positive Connotation or a Negative Connotation

“Hearing you singing out, we were both keen to spring up and sally forth or give you a sudden answer from inside, but Odysseus damped our ardor, reined us back.”

Based on the context below, determine if the vocabulary word has a Positive Connotation or a Negative Connotation

“A radiance strong as the moon or rising sun came flooding through the high-roofed halls of illustrious Menelaus. Once they’d feasted their eyes with gazing at it all, into the burnished tubs they climbed and bathed.”

Based on the context below, determine if the vocabulary word has a Positive Connotation or a Negative Connotation

“Just because I am crippled, Zeus’s daughter Aphrodite will always spurn me and love that devastating Ares, just because of his striking looks and racer’s legs while I am a weakling, lame from birth...”

Based on the context below, determine if the vocabulary word has a Positive Connotation or a Negative Connotation

“Outside the courtyard, fronting the high gates, a magnificent orchard stretches four acres deep…Here luxuriant trees are always in their prime…And here is a teeming vineyard planted for the kings.”

Based on the context below, determine if the vocabulary word has a Positive Connotation or a Negative Connotation

“I fear she’ll lounge out again with all of her six heads and seize many men. No, row for your lives, invoke brute force…Scylla’s mother spawned her to scourge mankind, she can stop the monster’s next attack.”