The Odyssey Vocabulary: PreAP/IB

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The Odyssey Vocabulary PreAP/IB
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Abominably adverb

• Doing something in a way that is worthy of or
  causes disgust or hatred detestably, quite
  disagreeably or unpleasantly
• ltThe student felt that he was doing abominably
  on the vocabulary test since he did not study.gt

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Adversary noun

• One that contends with, opposes, or resists an
  enemy
• ltThe soldier shot at his adversary on the other
  side of enemy lines.gt

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Appall verb

• To overwhelm or be overwhelmed with
  consternation, shock, or dismay
• ltWe were appalled
• by his behavior, embarrassed and dismayed.gt

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Ardor noun

• An often restless or transitory warmth of
  feeling extreme vigor or intense energy
• ltThe American troops saluted the flag with
  ardor, their stances rigid with emotion.gt

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Assuage verb

• To lessen the intensity of something that pains
  or distresses to ease, pacify, and quiet
• ltIn order to assuage their fear of the dark, the
  child slept with their favorite nightlight.gt

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Desolation noun

• Lonely grief misery...
• ltThe landscape echoed a certain sense of
  desolation the horizon traced a lonely curve
  unbroken by another person.gt

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Disdain noun

• A feeling of contempt for someone or something
  regarded as unworthy or inferior scorn
• ltThe judgmental elderly lady looked at the
  teenagers with disdain.gt

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Entreat verb

• To make an earnest request to plead
• ltThe criminal entreated the jury for their
  mercy.gt

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Formidable adjective

• Causing fear, dread, or apprehension...
• ltThe research project proved a formidable task.gt

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Gall noun

• Scornful boldness guts nerve...
• ltKaelyn Sharpe had a lot of gall, brave enough
  to say whats on her mind to anyone who will
  listen.gt

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Guile noun

• Deceitful cunning duplicity
• ltThe poker player looked around the table with
  guile, hiding his three aces behind his poker
  face.gt

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Implacable adjective

• Impossible to soothe unforgiving
• ltThe implacable wife kept a written record of
  her husbands mistakes.gt

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Lurk verb

• To lie in wait in a place of concealment
  especially for an evil purpose to move furtively
  or inconspicuously
• ltThere are always suspicious students lurking
  in the hallways and stairwells.gt

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Omen noun

• A sign an event thought to foretell good or
  evil
• ltShe saw a rainbow in the sky and took it as a
  good omen today was going to be a great day.gt

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Ponderous adjective

• Of very great weight unwieldy or clumsy because
  of weight and size
• ltThe ponderous football player tripped and fell
  down the stairs, unable to control his oversized
  body.gt

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Profusion noun

• Great quantity lavish display or supply lavish
  expenditure
• ltThe tree flowered in profusion, producing a
  multitude of white tiny blooms.gt

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Revelry noun

• Noisy merrymaking festivity
• ltThe street was impossible to get through, the
  lane choked with the revelry of the partiers.gt

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Throng noun

• A large gathering a crowd
• ltThe room was filled with a throng of people,
  all ex-girlfriends of Zachery Dominguez.gt

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Travail noun

• Work especially of a painful or laborious
  nature, toil a physical or mental exertion or
  piece of work agony, torment
• ltAfter several months of travail, the BP workers
  successfully cleaned up the Gulf oil spill.gt

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Tremulous adjective

• Characterized by or affected with trembling or
  tremors affected with timidity exceedingly
  sensitive easily shaken or disordered ltThe
  nervous speaker spoke with a tremulous voice,
  each word shaky and unsure.gt