Part 8 hercules is rescuing the city

1. If you can make it there, you can make it everywhere!

2. turmoil - a state of excitement or uncontrolled activity

People here are nuts (crazy)! That’s because they live in a city of turmoil.

3. earthquake - a sudden shaking movement of the ground

Were the fires before or after the earthquake?

4. flood - if water floods a place, it covers it

But before – the flood!

5. crime rate – an illegal activity

Don’t even get me started on the crime rate!

6. go downhill – get worse

Thebes has certainly gone downhill in a hurry!

7. amateur - someone who does not do something very well

We need a professional hero, not an amateur!

8. heights - the distance that something is from the ground or from the floor, or from a fixed level such as the sea

I have a terrible fear of heights!

9. to burst someone’s bubble - to end someone’s happiness by making them realize what is happening

I hate to burst you bubble

10. landslide - a heavy fall of earth and rocks down the side of a mountain

You won by a landslide!

PART 9 HADES’S PLAN

1. weakness - the state or condition of being weak

He’s got a weakness, because everyone’s got a weakness!

2. sworn off - to promise to stop doing or using something

I’ve sworn off manhandling!

3. crave – want

And I give you the thing you crave most in the entire cosmos!

PART 10 HERCULES AND ZEUS

PART 11 HERCULES AND MEG

1. whatsoever - used for emphasizing a negative statement

No weaknesses whatsoever?

2. rupture - an injury in which one of the organs in your body sticks out through the muscle surrounding it

Ruptured discs?

3. fit as a fiddle – very fit

I’m afraid I’m fit as a fiddle!

4. petty - not important and not worth worrying about

You wanted to be petty and dishonest?

5. get over - to start to feel happy or well again after something bad has happened to you

Don’t worry, he’ll get over it!

6. I’m through - having finished an activity

PART 12 PHIL’S TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT MEG

1. fraud – someone who pretends to be a person he or she is not

She’s a fraud

2. point – an idea, the thing you are trying to say

That’s not the point! The point is I love her!

3. chump – a stupid person who is easily tricked

I thought you were the all-time champ, not the all-time chump!

4. leverage - the power to make someone do what you want

I do have a little leverage you might wanna know about

5. trade-off - an agreement to do something if someone else does something

Here’s the trade-off

PART 13 HADES RELEASES THE TITANS

1. set someone free – release

I set you free!

2. capture - to catch someone so that they become your prisoner

Everyone’s been captured, I’ve been captured!

 

EXERCISES