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Unit 3: Selection Vocabulary 4

This list covers The Odyssey (A Graphic Novel), The Odyssey (Book XII), and "Convocation Remarks at Harvard University."
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  1. clamor
    make loud demands
    But when we came in sight of that sunny island, with its green meadows and bubbling streams, my exhausted men clamored to land.
  2. mutinous
    characterized by a rebellion against authority
    They were mutinous, and I saw that fate had us by the leash.
  3. omen
    a sign of a thing about to happen
    I knew we were doomed, and soon fearful omens confirmed it.
  4. nymph
    a minor nature goddess depicted as a beautiful maiden
    I drifted for nine days before the gods cast me up on Ogygia, the island home of the nymph Calypso, Atlas's daughter.
  5. immortal
    not subject to death
    Calypso wanted to keep me there forever, make me immortal...
  6. counsel
    something that provides direction or advice
    Meanwhile Eurylochus had been giving evil counsel to the men. 'Listen to me,' said he, 'my poor comrades. All deaths are bad enough but there is none so bad as famine. Why should not we drive in the best of these cows and offer them in sacrifice to the immortal gods?...'
  7. vengeance
    harming someone in retaliation for something they have done
    Father Jove, and all you other gods who live in everlasting bliss, I must have vengeance on the crew of Ulysses' ship: they have had the insolence to kill my cows, which were the one thing I loved to look upon, whether I was going up heaven or down again.
  8. insolence
    the trait of being rude and impertinent
    Father Jove, and all you other gods who live in everlasting bliss, I must have vengeance on the crew of Ulysses' ship: they have had the insolence to kill my cows, which were the one thing I loved to look upon, whether I was going up heaven or down again.
  9. abate
    become less in amount or intensity
    For six days my men kept driving in the best cows and feasting upon them, but when Jove the son of Saturn had added a seventh day, the fury of the gale abated; we therefore went on board, raised our masts, spread sail, and put out to sea.
  10. hence
    from that fact or reason or as a result
    Hence I was carried along for nine days till on the tenth night the gods stranded me on the Ogygian island, where dwells the great and powerful goddess Calypso.
  11. compel
    force somebody to do something
    In deference to that I want to take a pause from the facts and figures that build the body of evidence that compels us forward—with which you are no doubt more familiar than I at this point—and step back from the complex policy issues that occupy our debate, to focus on the foundational values that support what we do and why we do it.
  12. devoted
    dedicated exclusively to a purpose or use
    A devoted three-sport athlete, when Raquel got to high school, when her mom would get up at 3 AM to go start her shift cleaning bathrooms, Raquel would get dropped off at school by 5 AM to get an extra round of training on the track before anyone else arrived.
  13. ensure
    make certain of
    We must build a profession that ensures stakeholders retain the power to decide and that means allowing parents and kids to decide what school is best for them.
  14. constraint
    a limitation or restriction
    In this world, clear standards and clear expectations are not constraints but invitations.
  15. ideology
    an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group
    I have yet to meet a practitioner or parent or policy maker who wants students to fail, no matter their ideology or approach.
Created on Mon Nov 30 12:34:32 EST 2020 (updated Wed Dec 02 10:29:31 EST 2020)

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