Odyssey Book XXlll Vocabulary

a savagely violent person or animal

• Brute

• Conceive

• Revel

• Qualm

(of a horse) having shoes with nailheads projecting to prevent slipping

• roughshod

• anguish

• fraud

• revel

extreme folly or eccentricity.

• lunacy

• callous

• scornful

• lustrous

handle (someone) roughly by dragging or pushing

• manhandle

• lustrous

• anguish

• callous

the area in front of a fireplace.often used as a symbol of one’s home

• hearth

• avenger

• tactic

• bard

reject with disdain or contempt

• spurn

• hearth

• revel

• avenger

a person who exacts punishment or inflicts harm in return for an injury or wrong

• avenger

• tactic

• brute

• roughshod

an action or strategy carefully planned to achieve a specific end

• tactic

• bard

• revel

• spurn

a poet, traditionally one reciting epics

• bard

• lunacy

• hearth

• brute

characterized by a rhythmical swing or cadence

• lilting

• bard

• conceive

• fraud