The Odyssey Part 1

Katey O.
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  1. odyssey
    a long wandering and eventful journey
  2. travail
    use of physical or mental energy; hard work
  3. foreboding
    a feeling of evil to come
  4. adversary
    someone who offers opposition
  5. harried
    troubled persistently, especially with petty annoyances
  6. abominably
    in an offensive and hateful manner
  7. appalled
    struck with dread, shock, or dismay
  8. assuage
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  9. ardor
    feelings of great warmth and intensity
  10. mediation
    the act of intervening to bring about a settlement
  11. profusion
    the property of being extremely abundant
  12. ponderous
    having great mass and weight and unwieldiness
  13. beguiling
    highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
  14. epithet
    descriptive word or phrase
  15. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
Created on Sun Nov 06 17:59:44 EST 2011

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