Greek Literature Unit: Vocabulary

You can live without a brother but not without a friend.

- Arabic proverb

A trial between brothers has no winners or losers.

- Ekonda proverb


Directions: Look up meanings, be able to apply to the literature, learn the spelling, and be able to use the word in context. Prepare for a test on the vocabulary.

anarchist

 

-aster- (root)

 

asterisk

 

astrologist

 

augury

 

banish

 

betrothed

 

blasphemy

 

calamity

 

carrion

 

catastrophe

 

chorus

 

constellation

 

demoralization

 

destiny

 

dilemma

 

edict

 

epistle

 

exile

 

fate

 

garland

 

haste

 

horoscope

 

incest

 

infanticide

 

intolerable

 

investigation

 

malicious

 

meddling

 

misery

 

Oedipal complex

 

omen

 

oracle

 

parricide

 

petrified

 

piety

 

pious

 

plague

 

predestination

 

prediction

 

proclaim

 

proclamation

 

profit

 

prophecy

 

psychology

 

rash

 

recapitulation

 

regicide

 

reincarnation

 

remedy

 

rex

 

riddle

 

sacrifice

 

scavenger

 

seer

 

senile

 

sentry

 

signs of the Zodiac

 

slaughter

 

sphinx

 

submission

 

suffer

 

swagger

 

transgress

 

urn

 

 

 

Greek Literature Unit: Vocabulary