Name: _______________________________ Advisory: _________________: Date: ___/___/___ 7 th Grade Vocabulary Dictionary # 81 Word: myth Part of Speech: noun Charge: Ø (Neutral ) Definition: An ancient story that explains how things came to be or why we do the things we do. Greek myths included gods and goddess, heroes, mortals and monsters. 1) What myths do you know of? (Greek myths, other cultural myths?) _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ __________________________ 2) Synonyms: ________________________________, ___________________________ 3) Antonyms: ________________________________, ___________________________
An ancient story that explains how things came to be or why we do the things we do. Greek myths included gods and goddess, heroes, mortals and monsters.
1) What myths do you know of? (Greek myths, other cultural myths?)
1) not important, minor (when describing a thing)2) unkind, caring too much about small, unimportant
Kathleen Milnamow, 04/01/12,
petty cash a small amount of money that is kept in an office for making small payments petty larceny the crime of stealing things that are worth only a small amount of money
Kathleen Milnamow, 04/01/12,
Ruling government should not be concerned about thepolitical tumult.
6) Complete one of the following activities: 1. Write a sentence with the word. (Bad example = The boy was malicious. Good example = The boy was malicious because he liked to spread rumors and make people cry. 2. Draw a picture and provide a caption that shows meaning of the word.3. Write words you associate with the vocab word and explain why you associate the words together.4. Write down examples or non-examples of the word and explain why it’s an example or non-example.
7th Grade Vocabulary Dictionary
#
85Word:
hubrisPart of Speech:
nounCharge:
-
Definition:
excessive pride or arrogance
1) Antonym (opposite) __________________________
2) Which Greek gods have hubris? ______________________________________________________
How do they act if they have hubris? __________________________________________________
4) Write a caption for the picture, using the word “hubris.”
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
Kathleen Milnamow, 04/01/12,
humbleness
7th Grade Vocabulary Dictionary
#
86Word:
domainPart of Speech:
nounCharge:
Ø
Definition:
An area that someone controls or rules
1. Hades was “very jealous of his brothers and scarcely ever left his domain.”
What is a synonym for domain? __________________________________________________
2. In the Athene myth it writes, “This was Athene, the gray-eyed, the wide-browed. The manner of her birth gave her domain over intellectual activities.”
What is a synonym for domain? __________________________________________________
3. Draw a picture inspired by the word “domain” and write a caption below:
very skilled 1. Demeter’s niece, Persephone, was adept at naming different types of flowers. What is a synonym for adept? ____________________________________
2. Antonym of adept: _______________________
3. Draw a picture inspired by the word “adept.” Write a caption and include “adept”!
obsessed by your appearance and abilities, spending too much time admiring them 1. Describe a person (from a book, TV show, reality TV, or movie) who is narcissistic:
3. Narcissus is a mortal. Why? What caused him to die? _____________________________________
Kathleen Milnamow, 04/17/12,
comes from the Latin mors & mortis meaning DEATH mortified = death to your pride
Kathleen Milnamow, 04/17/12,
After his mother (Hera) threw him off Mount Olympus, he broke his legs and then got thrown into the sea and sank. He lived underwater with Thetis and started making beautiful jewelry (pg 49- Hephaestus chapter)
2. Would it make sense to say “we were on an odyssey when we drove to Rhode Island”? Why or why not? __________________________________________________________________________________
