Collection 6: Black Ships Before Troy

As you read Rosemary Sutcliff's retelling of the story of "The Iliad" in "Black Ships Before Troy," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 6's Collection 6: Black Ships Before Troy, The Apple of Discord I, Yeh-Shen, The Prince and the Pauper (drama), The Role of Myths in Ancient Greece
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  1. discord
    lack of agreement or harmony
  2. strait
    a narrow channel joining two larger bodies of water
  3. soothsayer
    someone who makes predictions of the future
  4. firebrand
    someone who deliberately foments trouble
  5. weary
    physically and mentally fatigued
  6. distaff
    a stick on which wool or flax is wound before spinning
  7. frond
    compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad
  8. summons
    an order to appear in person at a given place and time
  9. conceal
    prevent from being seen or discovered
  10. skirmish
    engage in a minor short-term fight
  11. spoil
    valuables taken by violence
  12. despair
    a state in which all hope is lost or absent
  13. pestilence
    any epidemic disease with a high death rate
  14. herald
    a person who announces important news
  15. brood
    think moodily or anxiously about something
Created on Thu Jul 17 20:56:39 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:19:00 EDT 2014)

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