Vocabulary

• account of: A spoken or written description of an event.
• too heavy: Having excessive weight; difficult to lift or move.
• at least: As a minimum
• in the west: Located in or towards the west.
• at night: During the night; in the nighttime.
• pay off: To give money to get person to do something; bribe
• check out
• constant: Happening frequently or without pause
• debate: General public discussion of a topic
• ancient: Very old; having lived a very long time ago
• tricky: Difficult, so needing skill to do or deal with
• strike: To hit something
• philosophy: Study of ideas about the basic nature of life
• intellectual: connected with or using a person’s ability to think in a logical way and understand things
• navigate: To direct (car, plane etc.) in the right direction
• decline: To bend towards the ground
• epic: Going on for a long time; awe-inspiring
• obligation: Duty to be done because of a law, rule or promise
• advocate: A lawyer who protects a clients interests
• narrative: The telling of a story
• decade: Period of 10 years
• etiquette: Rules regarding manners or good behavior
• myth: Popular belief that is false, unsupported by fact
• criticism: Article or essay that judges quality
• brutal: Extremely violent or mean
• military: Army or armed forces
• escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• account: An advantage
• burst: To move (arrive, exit, etc.) suddenly or hurriedly
• expand: To make something larger in size, number, amount
• secure: To get or achieve something with certainty
• rhetoric: The study of public speaking or writing techniques
• loyalty: Complete and sustained support for person, thing
• adolescence: Developmental period typically in the teen years
• span: Distance between two supports of a bridge
• defeat: To beat an enemy, team, disease
• flee: To leave somewhere urgently, to avoid danger
• civil: Of citizens of a country; not military, criminal
• reign: To be present and felt or sensed by everyone there
• portray: To play a character in theater or on film
• treatment: Medicine or method to make someone healthier
• rescue: To save someone who is in danger or in trouble
• literature: Writing valued as art, e.g. fiction, drama, poetry
• throne: Special elaborate chair on which king/queen sits
• imperial: Of an empire or an emperor
• seize: To take a place with force, as by military action
• manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• relic: Valuable, ancient thing or work of art
• prefer: To like something better than something else
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• argue: To fight or disagree over something
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• carry: To have a child, be pregnant
• ascend: To rise, go up to a higher level
• disagree: To have a different opinion; to fail to agree
• scholarship: Work of learning, studying, acquiring knowledge
• fight: To argue or quarrel with someone about something
• begin: To do the first part of an action; to start
• belong: To be a welcomed as a new member of a group
• astronomy: Study of stars and other bodies in space
• tumultuous: Chaotic
• participation: Act of being involved in something
• favorable: When a good result or positive outcome is likely
• study: To focus on learning something usually at school
• slay: To kill violently
• greek: Concerning the culture and people of Greece
• write: To compose letters and words on paper or a screen
• daughter: A female child of someone
• husband: Married man
• eyewitness: Someone who sees and event with their own eyes