2.The furies are fearsome monsters of vengeance who work for Hades, the god of the underworld. They punish those who have committed crimes against the gods.

3. It is mentioned in the book as one of the furies disguises themselves as Percy's pre-algebra teacher. Percy is shocked and Grover was familiar with the myth already and he lied to Percy that he didn't know about it.

4. The myth, the furies, are monsters with leathery bat-like wings, claws, and sharp yellow fangs. They hide their monstrous features and attack those who have committed great crimes against the gods. Hades believes Percy stole Hades helmet. Throughout the journey, the furies continue to hunt Percy showing their determination to carry out the task ordered by Hades.

2 She had a dad that sed that is him put he in side.

2 He wont to kill them and eat them.He kill percy mom and he saved his frend and he was nice to his frend.

3 The minotaur is a strong man that wont to kill them.His mom new what is was and he mom tolled them to run.His mom died and and percy was so sad he was crying but he saved his frende and he was so happy his frend was so huger.

2 to fall down.

3
: to fall or shrink together abruptly and completely : fall into a jumbled or flattened mass through the force of external pressure

a blood vessel that collapsed

2 when I wake up

3 : the quality or state of being aware especially of something within oneself

b

: the state or fact of being conscious of an external object, state, or fact

c

: awareness

2 He is all lot of father's . He has a lot of people in his famle.

2 He is the terach that is a great god that is nice.

2 I made my mom give me a nice friend.

3

a

: an act of demanding or asking especially with authority

a demand for obedience

b

: something claimed as due or owed

the demands of the workers' union

2

archaic : question

2 To not do somthing to skipped it and not do it.

3
a

: to move or proceed with leaps and bounds or with a skip

b

: to bound off one point after another : ricochet

: to leave hurriedly or secretly

skipped out without paying their bill

a

: to pass over or omit an interval, item, or step

b

: to omit a grade in school in advancing to the next

c

: misfire sense 1

2 Ares is the god of war and he is really strong and smart and he is nice.He is a big and really strong and he is a good at fiting and he is a strong prson and nice man.

3 He is a strong and he is good at a lot of things like war and a nice man.He is a hunsping and and he is nice. He is marked as a good war peosn and he is a srant man.

2 He is haf man haf horsn.

2 Will got in trodle so he got a punishment.

3 : the act of punishing

2

a

: suffering, pain, or loss that serves as retribution

b

: a penalty inflicted on an offender through judicial procedure

3

: severe, rough, or disastrous treatment

2 Zeus is the god of lighting and he is a strong god. He has a lot of family and he is mread to a lot of people.

3 He is a strong man the has the power to have a no not what people have a lot.He is a lot of family maembers so he is a dad to a lot of people.He is a really nice man that has a lot of people in his family.

2 She trend into a tree and she is a hafe boll

2 It is a thing that is a thing that you use to hier someing.

3 something (such as a club, knife, or gun) used to injure, defeat, or destroy

2

: a means of contending against another

weapon

2 of 2

verb

weaponed; weaponing; weapons

transitive verb

: arm

Examples of weapon in a Sentence

Nounassault with a deadly weaponThe pitcher's slider is his most effective weapon.a new weapon in the fight against cancerThe mayor's campaign unleashed its secret weapon.

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Noun

The weapon can also fly more than 45 miles to strike mobile targets, reducing the amount of time that aircrews spend in harm’s way.—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025After the Antioch School shooting in January 2025, Nashville's school district said that a new AI weapons detection system, called Omnilert, failed to detect the gun used by an assailant who shot and killed two students.—Tonya Simpson, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2025

Verb

Lobbing an anti-satellite, or counter-space, weapon into the same orbital plane as its potential target ties Russia's hands.—Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 11 July 2025Saleh said the organization refuses to stand by as Israel ships weapon components to the U.S. to be developed and then used on the people of Gaza.—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 June 2025

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English wepen, from Old English wǣpen; akin to Old High German wāffan weapon, Old Norse vāpn

First Known Use

Noun

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of weapon was before the 12th century

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Phrases Containing weapon

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• weapon of mass destruction

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weapon

noun

weap·​on

ˈwep-ən

1

: something (as a gun, knife, or club) used to injure, defeat, or destroy

2

: something with which one fights or struggles against another

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2 They are all gods and they are strong.They are strong.

3 They are strong.They are dogs.They are all hondes.

2 She is a nice ponse and she is a hafl blod

2 walk in a way in a strat way.

3 The individual was found pinned beneath a walkway bridge near a vehicle that had been caught in nine feet of floodwaters the previous evening, CNN reports.

2 won of Chiron students that he told to train.He had more traing then percy

3 He is a strong man and he is a well trand.He is strong and nice man.He is a strong.

2 He is a nice man that is strong and nice

2 To be not sere about something.

3
a

: given to or characterized by insolent rudeness

an impertinent answer

b

: not restrained within due or proper bounds especially of propriety or good taste

impertinent curiosity

2 She is a old woman and she is strong.She a old girl frand of psiding

3 she is a strong and she is a nice.She tried to put perse into a sasoew. But she was trying to purrsadee and she alomowst got pawaded.

2 She is old and she where a hadd thing

2 You will go done the hill and it will be fun.

31

: toward the bottom of a hill

2

: toward a worsened or inferior state or level

—used especially in the phrase go downhill

downhill

2 of 3

noun

down·​hill ˈdau̇n-ˌhil 

1

: a descending slope

2

a

: the sport of skiing on downhill trails

—often used attributively

b

: a skiing race against time down a trail

finished second in the downhill

downhill

3 of 3

adjective

down·​hill ˈdau̇n-ˌhil 

1

: not difficult : easy

after that problem the rest was downhill

2

: sloping downhill

3

: closer to the bottom of an incline

your downhill ski

4

: progressively worse

5

American football : relating to, employing, or being a style of running in which a ballcarrier moves powerfully forward into the line of scrimmage and down the field toward the opponent's end zone without a lot of movement toward the sidelines to avoid tacklers

2 He is the god of the wild place.He is ether died or he is lost.

3 They are trying to find him because the don't think he is dead. They have looked for he for a long time.They have naver hand him.

2 He is a pink poodle and Percy does not what to talk to him.

2 It is a strong guesses.

3 the activity or process of asking questions

Illocutionary acts … such as stating, questioning, promising, or commanding.—Ronald Wardhaugh

2 He help andetbethe get down.The down the doorstep.

3 He help andubeth and he is nice. He is really a good guy.And he is nice.

2 It is really wet thing.

3b

: heavy or doughy because of imperfect cooking

soggy bread

2

: heavily dull : spiritless

soggy prose

2 He is the god of the Ocens.He is a really strong god.

3 He is the god of the oceans.He is on of the 3 bigger god.He is a strong god.He is alsow a really saramt god.

2 She is a thing sent for the uder would.

To stomp on sothing.

3: to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter

transitive verb

: to utter with involuntary stops or repetitions

2 He is a strong god and he is not that smart.He is a is good god.

3 He is a good god.He is not that smart.But he is strong.

2 He is one of the god and he is strong.

2 Hair on your head.

3 Robinson is one of several staffers who have exited the Sussexes’ team in recent years, raising eyebrows.—Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2025Billingslea included side-by-side photographs that would be sure to raise eyebrows.

2 She is really strong.She is also no nice.

3 She dose no like kids and she is not nice.She is strong.And she is really bad.

2 The Zebbre is a tolking anmle.

2 A thing a round my hand

3
: a circular band for holding, connecting, hanging, pulling, packing, or sealing

a key ring

a towel ring

2

: a circlet usually of precious metal worn especially on the finger

2 Crusty is really tall and strong.He is really skarely.

3 He is really tall.He is not nice.He was trying to kill percy.

2 To move in a way.

3 : to move jerkily : quiver

2

: to undergo a brief spasmodic muscular contraction

his hand twitched

3

: pull, pluck

twitched at my sleeve

2 He is form the under would.He is reall stong.

3 He is for the under would. He is stong he is diffrent. He is creaey.

2 He is form the ubnde woldel.

2 Like there a lot of rocks.

3 1

: abounding in or consisting of rocks

2

: difficult to impress or affect : insensitive

3

: firmly held : steadfast

rocky

2 of 2

adjective (2)

rockier; rockiest

1

: unstable, wobbly

2

: physically upset or mentally confused (as from drinking excessively)

3

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2 Hades is a strong god.He is one of the 3 gods.

3 Hades is a strong and smart god. He is one of the 3 gods.He is a nice god.

2 He is a strong and smart god

2 You have no sows on

3 The snapshot shows the pair holding hands while walking barefoot on a sandy beach.

2 It is like a flonting dog.It is made of gold.

3 It is like a dog.It is really strong.It looks like a gold thing.

2 He is one of the 3 of the big gods.