Odyssey Vocab 61-80

pensive

Musingly or dreamily thoughtful

pillage

Something taken as booty

pine

to yearn intensely and persistently by force

pommel

the knob on the hilt of a sword or saber

portent

something that foreshadows a coming event

slumber

to sleep lightly

peddling

to travel about with wares for sale

preferment

advancement or promotion in dignity, office, or station

prodigious

obsolete : being an omen

promontory

a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water

provender

dry food for domestic animals : FEED

prudence

the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason

pungent

marked by sharp incisive quality

quandary

a state of perplexity or doubt

inquisitive

given to examination or investigation

rapt

lifted up and carried away

ravished

to seize and take away by violence

regaled

to entertain sumptuously

requite

to make return for