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"The Blood of Olympus," Vocabulary from Chapters 1-8

Mon Jan 08 18:40:35 EST 2018
By ninjatk (TX)
"Seven half-bloods shall answer the call,To storm or fire the world must fall.An oath to keep with a final breath,And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death."Spoken by the Oracle of Delphi in "The Last Olympian" (the last book in the prequel pentalogy by Rick Riordan), this prophecy is developed in the tenth book about the sons and daughters of Greek and Roman gods. No longer on separate quests to retrieve magical objects or rescue gods, the demigods must now unite to defeat the giants and prevent Gaia from rising and destroying the earth.Here are links to our lists for Book 5 of "The Heroes of Olympus" series: Chapters 1-8, Chapters 9-20, Chapters 21-32, Chapters 33-44, Chapters 45-58Here is a link to our lists for Book 1 of t
gnarled
He couldn’t see his face, thank goodness, but his fingers were gnarled and bony.
feral
Dating a girl whose mom was the goddess of love ... well, Jason was always afraid he’d do something unromantic and Piper’s mom would frown down from Mount Olympus and change him into a feral hog.
cornucopia
From her waist cord hung her cornucopia - the magic horn of plenty.
horde
Piper’s blade, Hazel’s magical senses and Annabeth’s instincts all agreed - the answer lay here in Ithaca, at the ancient palace of Odysseus, where a horde of evil spirits had gathered to await Gaia’s orders.
superimpose
But superimposed over the ruins was another layer of reality - a spectral mirage of the palace as it must have appeared in its heyday.
spectral
Jason had expected about a hundred spirits, but twice that many were milling about, chasing spectral serving girls, smashing plates and cups, and basically making a nuisance of themselves.
wraith
Most looked like Lares from Camp Jupiter - transparent purple wraiths in tunics and sandals.
leer
He sat across from Antinous while more ghosts crowded around, leering as if they expected to see a particularly vicious arm-wrestling contest.
mediate
He mediated between demigods, listened to all sides of an argument, found compromises.
discreet
She discreetly put her finger to her mouth in a gag me gesture, then went back to flirting with dead guys.
grievance
All of them are suitors for Gaia’s favour. All have claims and grievances against the gods or their pet heroes.
meddlesome
And, to get there, those meddlesome demigods will have to travel by sea, eh?
summon
He’d never seen anything like the shell of earth that Antinous had summoned to destroy Eurymachus.
foreboding
But something else bothered him - a cold sense of foreboding, as if he hadn’t heard the worst news yet.
repertoire
Jason silently ran through his repertoire of Latin cuss words.
languish
Did you think Gaia would let such an important spirit languish in the Underworld?
feign
Don’t feign ignorance, my dearest.
epitome
Odysseus and Penelope - the epitome of a perfect marriage!
rift
Unless you can subdue her, the rift between Greek and Roman can never be healed.
amends
They are desperate enough to try anything to make amends.
loll
Pain rolled through him. His head lolled back.
caldera
A thousand feet below her, a half-mile-wide caldera yawned at the top of a mountain, white steam pluming from the centre.
cacophony
The sound of the wind was replaced by a cacophony of voices whispering in a thousand languages.
vertigo
Sometimes they’d walk right through her, leaving her with vertigo.
chide
She mentally chided herself. He was a comrade, not her little brother.
loam
Then she realized a tidal wave of dark loam was rolling across the hills, turning the skin of the earth inside out, leaving nothing behind.
obliterate
The earth swallowed the Field of Mars, obliterating every trace of forts and trenches from the war games.
augur
Along with his senatorial purple-lined toga, his centurion badge and his augur’s knife, he had adopted a new honour: a white cloth mantle over his head, which marked him as Pontifex Maximus, high priest to the gods.
descendant
‘I see here you are a legacy, a descendant of Orcus.’
circumstantial
But because the evidence was circumstantial, and because Bryce’s family was rich and powerful with lots of influence in New Rome, he’d got away with the lighter sentence of banishment.
gaunt
Octavian’s face looked almost ghoulish under his white mantle - his eyes too piercing, his cheeks too gaunt, his lips too thin and colourless.
manifestation
We eliminate the division. We wipe out the Greeks. We return the gods to their proper manifestation as Roman.
slumber
Once the gods are restored to their full power, Gaia will not dare rise. She will sink back into her slumber.
auspicious
Besides, the first day of August is most auspicious - the month named after my ancestor Augustus.
minion
We will crush the Greeks. We will stop Gaia and her minions.
harbor
Then we’ll take that harpy the Greeks have been harbouring - the one who memorized our Sibylline Books - and we’ll force her to give us the knowledge of our ancestors.
consternation
Sure enough, every so often, out of the corner of her eye, Reyna would spot glowing white spirits in Roman clothes flitting among the ruins, frowning at the statue in consternation.
impending
She couldn’t decide which was more terrifying - the impending destruction of New Rome, or the way Octavian was poisoning the legion from the inside.
throes
Behind the glass lay a row of plaster figures, all frozen in the throes of death.
skulk
Ghosts skulked around the edges of the courtyard, apparently intimidated by the Athena Parthenos.

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