Source Reveal Word POS Definition Contextual Sentence Word Level. enlighten verb teach If you mean something by this, enlighten me with your wisdom.

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1 Source Reveal Word POS Definition Contextual Sentence Word enlighten teach If you mean something by this, enlighten me with your wisdom. aptitude skill An aptitude for admiring our power, being puzzled by our riddles and amazed by our caprice. At Grade vaunting participle bragging For there is this in man too: a vaunting pride that needs little sustenance to make it swell to giant size. At Grade sear burn sustenance fuel spite desire to be hurtful And when the meat began to sear and sputter, filling the cave with its rich smells, the people felt themselves melting with hunger and flung themselves on the meat and devoured it greedily, burning their tongues. For there is this in man too: a vaunting pride that needs little sustenance to make it swell to giant size. It was so hot, so quick; it bit sharply when you touched it, and for pure spite, made the shadows dance. defy oppose until another hero was born brave enough to defy the gods. capacity ability He has another quality, said Zeus, the capacity for worship. At Grade At Grade 1

2 Source Reveal Word POS Definition Contextual Sentence Word abide obey by which gods also must abide. At Grade humility humbleness his sense of worship, his humility. infinitely ad endlessly More interesting, perhaps, but infinitely more dangerous. endow give a gift of "Of what use to make a separate race called man and endow him with little fur, some wit, and a curious charm of unpredictability? If he must live like this, why separate him from the beasts at all? At Grade wit intelligence Of what use to make a separate race called man and endow him with little fur, some wit, and a curious charm of unpredictability? If he must live like this, why separate him from the beasts at all? At Grade horizon the line where the earth and the sky meet Then he left his couch at dawn, and standing tiptoe on Olympus, stretched his arm to the eastern horizon where the first faint flames of the sun were flickering. At Grade hover hang in the air And when the friend of man was bound to the mountain, Zeus sent two vultures to hover about him forever, tearing at his belly and eating his liver. bind tie He called his giant guards and had them seize Prometheus, drag him off to the Caucasus, and there bind him to a mountain peak with great chains specially forged by Hephaestus native adjective home than a man's own native country. 2

3 Source Reveal Word POS Definition Contextual Sentence Word inflicted on phrase harmfully dealt Zeus inflicted on me, homeward bound from Troy At Grade sacked stole from and destroyed the Cicones' stronghold. There I sacked the city, At Grade plunder stolen treasure killed the men, but as for the wives and plunder, comrades friends and Zeus presented us with disaster, me and my comrades At Grade notion idea who had no notion of killing my companions, not at all, At Grade everlasting adjective unending lawless brutes, who trust so to the everlasting gods clustered participle grouped together to yield a big full-bodied wine from clustered grapes bleating participle crying their bleating sheep and goats cast throw to embark at once and cast off cables quickly. roving gerund wandering Out on a trading spree or roving the waves like pirates, At Grade sacred adjective holy strangers are sacred Zeus will avenge their rights!' At Grade crafty adjective skillfully sneaky I shot back in my crafty way, 'My ship? At Grade groped reached I groped for the fatal spot but a fresh thought held me back. ambrosia food of the gods this is nectar, ambrosia this flows from heaven!' At Grade 3

4 Source Reveal Word POS Definition Contextual Sentence Word toppled fell he toppled over, sprawled full-length, flat on his back grazing gerund lightly eating Used neither for grazing nor for ploughing crimson adjective red The Cyclopes have nothing like our ships with their crimson prows yield produce wheat and barley and vines with generous clusters that swell with rain from heaven to yield wine At Grade sacred adjective holy for when we took the sacred citadel of the Cicones suppliants beggars We find ourselves here as suppliants at your knees At Grade brute rough, violent being To this the cruel brute made no reply. bard poet it is indeed a lovely thing to hear a bard such as this At Grade gale strong wind now sent my fleet a terrible gale from the north bouquet taste and the bouquet that rose from the bowl was pure heaven At Grade embark board I then commanded the rest of my loyal band to embark with all speed on their fast ships prime best time grown to its full prime, the bole, like a column, thickset contemptuous adjective proudly disrespectful I am not being haughty or contemptuous of you, though I'm not surprised that you think I am. At Grade prodigy young person with extraordinary Was a prodigy At Grade 4

5 Source Reveal Word POS Definition Contextual Sentence Word stunned adjective surprised As butterflies to a garden, to flock stunned flock come as a group As butterflies to a garden, to flock stunned conjured created from nothing conjured her images into their places At Grade inborn adjective natural Her sole instructor, she claimed, was her inborn skill At Grade swooned fainted from emotion They swooned at all she did. reckless adjective careless For your reckless remarks At Grade merciful adjective kind and not harsh She will hear and she will be merciful. totters moves unsteadily As she spat at her: "Your brain totters decrepit adjective old and weak Like your decrepit body At Grade babble nonsensical talk Waste your babble on them prostrate adjective lying down All the nymphs fell prostrate At Grade brazenly ad shamelessly Only Arachne brazenly At Grade giddy adjective dizzy She plunged with all her giddy vanity At Grade gradation shade That glowed every gradation 5

6 Source Reveal Word POS Definition Contextual Sentence Word indignation anger Staggered away growning with indignation exasperation extreme annoyance Into exasperation, struck Arachne At Grade divine adjective heavenly Minerva portrayed the divine characterised described She characterised each one impudence disrespect Arachne could now expect for her impudence At Grade circumvents finds a way around Circumvents the modesty of Demeter At Grade assumed took on Before they assumed for themselves in vain idiom pointlessly Who had challenged Juno, cried in vain At Grade astride participle sitting atop of Astride the bull that had deceived her 6