Myths and Legends: Metamorphoses

by Ovid

Ovid's Metamorphoses features myths and stories of change, mutation, and transformation. Learn these words from the translation by John Dryden here.

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VOCABULARY LISTS IN THIS COLLECTION:

Book 1

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- perpetual
- terrestrial
- contiguous
- unwieldy
- ample
- zephyr
- dregs
- metamorphose
- brazen
- beleaguer
- inviolable
- pious
- dire
- cleave
- deluge
- impetuous
- exhortation
- visage
- sepulcher
- rudiment
- promiscuous
- lascivious
- refulgent
- espouse
- homage
- imperial
- obscure
- progeny
- gaudy
- vindicate
Book 2

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- illustrious
- exalt
- hoary
- repent
- precipice
- celestial
- moderate
- disperse
- prodigious
- conflagration
- epitaph
- verdant
- limpid
- abhor
- quiver
- baseness
- usurp
- venerable
- hasten
- insidious
- heifer
- lofty
- pompous
- woo
- smitten
- sedentary
- allay
- sublime
- languish
- wanton
Book 3

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- tempest
- stern
- suppliant
- servitude
- brandish
- pestilential
- infernal
- grotto
- eminent
- supplicate
- aggravate
- decrepit
- beguile
- abate
- quench
- quaff
- solicitous
- prattle
- bereft
- bulwark
- disdain
- presumptuous
- audacious
- zealous
- seditious
- avarice
- hospitable
- officious
- brindled
- ghastly
Book 4

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- propitious
- impertinent
- dexterous
- perplexed
- lewd
- encumbered
- supine
- haughty
- bellows
- niggardly
- ambrosia
- frankincense
- peevish
- ruddy
- feign
- vesper
- consort
- baleful
- noisome
- implacable
- efface
- boon
- gird
- lavish
- rueful
- amicable
- atone
- dowry
- execrable
- prolific
Book 5

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- nuptial
- boisterous
- vile
- succor
- aloof
- sage
- sever
- transfix
- scoff
- obliquely
- doleful
- insensate
- affront
- credulous
- folly
- rapture
- licentious
- portend
- complaisant
- indignation
- thespian
- insolence
- pliant
- diminutive
- quondam
- ravish
- irrevocable
- adverse
- gambol
- prevail
Book 6

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- hamlet
- deprecate
- admonition
- reprove
- hallowed
- vagrant
- spurious
- timorous
- repine
- sinewy
- obdurate
- churlish
- saunter
- expostulate
- debar
- genial
- reproach
- clamorous
- foment
- importune
- perfidious
- writhe
- dissemble
- tumultuous
- bacchanalian
- expiate
- conjugal
- imprecation
- sylvan
- callow
Book 7

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- odious
- fickle
- cozen
- assuage
- scepter
- ambient
- surmount
- mirth
- filial
- nocturnal
- malefactor
- presage
- cull
- plunder
- mystic
- stupefy
- lustrate
- sundry
- inveigle
- putrid
- consternation
- paramour
- prudent
- dispatch
- treacherous
- impregnable
- respite
- eloquence
- frugal
- blandishment
Book 8

Jump to activity:
- vanquish
- veer
- gale
- descry
- burnish
- sanguine
- emboldened
- perdition
- proffer
- pinion
- intricate
- glut
- tedious
- azure
- subsist
- ingenious
- invidious
- coeval
- wary
- prostrate
- satiate
- cataract
- gall
- relentless
- accretion
- attribute
- inure
- strife
- blaspheme
- keen
Book 9

Jump to activity:
- maim
- defy
- extol
- augmented
- quell
- precarious
- fortitude
- livid
- rancor
- valiant
- incessant
- vex
- encroach
- hapless
- prescient
- dismal
- depraved
- prerogative
- afflicted
- sprightly
- divulge
- irksome
- vouchsafe
- pule
- persist
- repose
- defraud
- recourse
- latent
- votive
Book 10

Jump to activity:
- inauspicious
- omnipotence
- transient
- voracious
- forfeit
- inexorable
- destitute
- torrent
- nefarious
- implore
- impudent
- salacious
- kindred
- sanction
- ruminate
- adjure
- perverse
- sanctify
- discordant
- penitence
- distend
- extravagance
- recompense
- upbraid
- rove
- consecrated
- sportive
- levity
- baffle
- parched
Book 11

Jump to activity:
- devout
- missive
- fallow
- throng
- jovial
- sumptuous
- earnestly
- arbiter
- deportment
- judicious
- esteem
- copious
- appease
- libation
- felicity
- luminary
- revel
- citadel
- falter
- forsake
- obstinate
- breach
- covetous
- abyss
- despoil
- billow
- manifest
- surmise
- lamentable
- pallid
Book 12

Jump to activity:
- cenotaph
- unfledged
- undulate
- diffuse
- encompassing
- prowess
- unerring
- buffet
- discourse
- bestial
- resound
- chalice
- ply
- dissuade
- fray
- sunder
- ashen
- brawny
- stifle
- forbear
- intersperse
- impassive
- intolerable
- oblivion
- endue
- weariness
- penetrable
- recreant
- foremost
- sustain
Book 13

Jump to activity:
- kindle
- abject
- elocution
- opprobrious
- sleight
- parricide
- circumvent
- aspersion
- mollify
- tutelary
- dauntless
- deplore
- specious
- invective
- mitigate
- ruffian
- munificence
- noxious
- aversion
- scythe
- burly
- fallacious
- stature
- lineage
- adorn
Book 14

Jump to activity:
- baneful
- indulgent
- avail
- pang
- coy
- compliance
- surge
- repair
- spite
- tread
- recess
- infuse
- nether
- vain
- strive