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| 6029418196 | Achilles' heel | today, one spot that is most vulnerable; one weakness a person may have | 0 | |
| 6029422388 | Adonis | handsome young man; Aphrodite loved him | 1 | |
| 6029424778 | Aeolian | anything pertaining to wind; god who was Keeper of Wind | 2 | |
| 6029428223 | Apollo | a physically perfect male; the God of music and light; known for his physical beauty | 3 | |
| 6029431499 | Argus-eyed | omniscient, all-seeing; from Argus, the 100-eyed monster that Hera had guarding Io | 4 | |
| 6029435533 | Athena/Minerva | goddess of wisdom, the city, and arts; patron goddess of the city of Athens | 5 | |
| 6029440498 | Atlantean | strong like Atlas - who carried the globe on his shoulders | 6 | |
| 6029442991 | Aurora | early morning or sunrise; from the Roman personification of Dawn or Eos | 7 | |
| 6029445924 | Bacchanal | wild, drunken party or rowdy celebration; from god of wine Bacchus | 8 | |
| 6029449597 | Bacchanalian | pertaining to a wild, drunken party or celebration from god of wine | 9 | |
| 6029456724 | Calliope | series of whistles --circus organ; from the Muse of eloquence or beautiful voice | 10 | |
| 6029465315 | Cassandra | a person who continually predicts misfortune but often is not believed; from (Greek legends) a daughter of Priam cursed by Apollo for not returning his love; he left her with the gift of prophecy but made it so no one would believe her | 11 | |
| 6029468346 | Centaur | a monster that had the head, arms, and chest of a man, and the body and legs of a horse | 12 | |
| 6029471980 | Chimera | a horrible creature of the imagination, an absurd or impossible idea; wild fancy; a monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail, supposed to breathe out fire | 13 | |
| 6029471981 | Cupidity | eager "desire" to possess something; greed or avarice; Roman god of love | 14 | |
| 6029471982 | Erotic | of or having to do with sexual passion or love; Greek god of love | 15 | |
| 6029474552 | Furor | wild enthusiasm or excitement, rage | 16 | |
| 6029474553 | Gorgon | a very ugly or terrible person, especially a repulsive woman.; Medusa, any one or three sisters have snakes for hair and faces so horrible that anyone who looked at them turned to stone | 17 | |
| 6029474554 | Halcyon | clam, peaceful, tranquil --Archaic bird supposed to breed in a nest on the sea and calm the water, identified with the kingfisher | 18 | |
| 6029474555 | Harpy | a predatory person or nagging woman | 19 | |
| 6029476224 | Hector | to bully | 20 | |
| 6029476225 | Helen | of or relating to Greece, or a Specialist of language or culture in Greece; symbol of a beautiful woman | 21 | |
| 6029476226 | Herculean | very strong or of extraordinary power | 22 | |
| 6029476227 | Hydra-Headed | having many centers or branches, hard to bring under control; something bad you cannot eradicate | 23 | |
| 6029478407 | Iridescent | a play of colors producing rainbow effects | 24 | |
| 6029478408 | Jovial | good humored | 25 | |
| 6029480402 | Junoesque | marked by stately beauty | 26 | |
| 6029480403 | Lethargy | abnormal drowsiness or inertia | 27 | |
| 6029480404 | Martial | suited for war or a warrior | 28 | |
| 6029482462 | Medea | sorceress or enchantress | 29 | |
| 6029482463 | Mentor | a trusted counselor or guide | 30 | |
| 6029482464 | Mercurial | suddenly cranky or changeable | 31 | |
| 6029484395 | Mercury/Hermes | a carrier or tidings, a newsboy, a messenger; messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence; the fabled inventor, wore winged hat and sandals | 32 | |
| 6029484396 | Mnemonics | a device used to aid memory; the personification of memory | 33 | |
| 6029484397 | Morphine | a bitter white, crystalline alkaloid used to relieve pain and induce sleep | 34 | |
| 6029484398 | Muse | some creature of inspiration ; the daughters of Mnemosyne and Zeus, divine singers that presided over thought in all its forms | 35 | |
| 6029486074 | Narcissism | being in love with our own self-image | 36 | |
| 6029486075 | Nemesis | just punishment, one who inflicts due punishment; goddess who punishes crime; but more often she is the power charged with curbing all excess, such as excessive good fortune or arrogant pride | 37 | |
| 6029486076 | Neptune | the sea personified; the Roman god associated with Poseidon, god of the water and oceans | 38 | |
| 6029486077 | Niobe | mournful woman | 39 | |
| 6029487693 | Odyssey | a long journey | 40 | |
| 6029487694 | Olympian | majestic in manner, superior to mundane affairs | 41 | |
| 6029487695 | Paean | a song of joy; a ritual epithet of Apollo the healer | 42 | |
| 6029487696 | Pandora's Box | Something that opens the door for bad occurrences, opened by someone known for curiosity | 43 | |
| 6029490110 | Parnassus | Mountain was sacred to arts and literature; any center of poetic or artistic activity; .poetry or poets collectively, a common title for selection of poetry | 44 | |
| 6029490111 | Pegasus | Poetic inspiration; named after a winged horse which sprang from the blood of Medusa at her death; a stamp of his hoof caused Hippocrene, the fountain of the Muses, to issue poetic inspiration from Mount Helicon | 45 | |
| 6029491681 | Phoenix | a symbol of immortality or rebirth | 46 | |
| 6029491682 | Plutocracy | a government by the wealthy | 47 | |
| 6029491683 | Promethean | life-bringing, creative, or courageously original; named after a Titan who brought man the use of fire which he had stolen from heaven for their benefit | 48 | |
| 6029491684 | Protean | taking many forms, versatile | 49 | |
| 6029493362 | Psyche | the human soul, self, the mind | 50 | |
| 6029614630 | Pygmalion | someone (usually a male) who tries to fashion someone into the person he desires; from a myth adapted into a play by George Bernard Shaw; a womanhating sculptor who makes a female figure of ivory who Aphrodite brings to life for him | 51 | |
| 6029791523 | Pyrrhic victory | a too costly victory | 52 | |
| 6029791524 | Saturnalia | a period of unrestrained revelry | 53 | |
| 6029791525 | Saturnine | sluggish, gloomy, morose, inactive in winter months | 54 | |
| 6029791526 | Sibyl | a witch or sorceress; a priestess who made known the oracles of Apollo and possessed the gift of prophecy | 55 | |
| 6029792816 | Sisyphean | greedy and avaricious | 56 | |
| 6029792817 | Stentorian | having a loud voice | 57 | |
| 6029792818 | Stygain | dark and gloomy | 58 | |
| 6029792819 | Tantalize | always tempting him as punishment for excessive pride | 59 | |
| 6029796338 | Terpischorean | pertaining to dance | 60 | |
| 6029796339 | Titanic | large, grand, enormous | 61 | |
| 6029797794 | Volcanoes | the Roman god of fire, whose forge is said to be under mountains | 62 | |
| 6029799587 | Vulcanize | to treat rubber with sulfur to increase strength and elasticity | 63 | |
| 6029799588 | Zeus | a powerful man; king of the gods, ruler of Mt. Olympus, vengeful hurler of thunderbolts | 64 | |
| 6029799589 | Babbitt | a self-satisfied person concerned chiefly with business and middle-class ideals like material success; a member of the American working class whose unthinking attachment to its business and social ideals is such to make him a model of narrow-mindedness and self-satisfaction | 65 | |
| 6029801112 | Brobdingnagian | gigantic, enormous, on a large scale, enlarged | 66 | |
| 6029801113 | Bumble | to speak or behave clumsily or faltering, to make a humming or droning sound | 67 | |
| 6029801128 | Cinderella | one who gains affluence or recognition after obscurity and neglect, a person or thing whose beauty or worth remains unrecognized; after the fairytale heroine who escapes form a life of drudgery through the intervention of a fairy godmother and marries a handsome prince | 68 | |
| 6029803640 | Don Juan | a libertine, profligate, a man obsessed with seducing women | 69 | |
| 6029803641 | Don Quixote | someone overly idealistic to the point of having impossible dreams; from the crazed and impoverished Spanish noble who sets out to revive the glory of knighthood, romanticized in the musical The Man of La Mancha based on the story by Cervantes | 70 | |
| 6029803642 | Panglossian | blindly or misleadingly optimistic | 71 | |
| 6029805512 | Falstaffian | full of wit and bawdy humor | 72 | |
| 6029806944 | Frankenstein | Anything that threatens or destroys its creator; from.the young scientist in Mary Shelley's novel of this name, who creates a monster that eventually destroys him | 73 | |
| 6029806945 | Friday | A faithful and willing attendant, ready to turn his hand to anything | 74 | |
| 6029806946 | Galahad | A pure and noble man with limited ambition; in the legends of King Arthur, the purest and most virtuous knight of the Round Table, the only knight to find the Holy Grail | 75 | |
| 6029808544 | Jekyll and Hyde | A capricious person with two sides to his/her personality | 76 | |
| 6029808545 | Lilliputian | descriptive of a very small person or of something diminutive, trivial or petty | 77 | |
| 6029808546 | Little Lord Fauntleroy | refers either to a certain type of children's clothing or to a beautiful, but pampered and effeminate small boy; from a work by Frances H. Burnett, the main character, seven-year-old Cedric Errol, was a striking figure, dressed in black velvet with a lace collar and yellow curls | 78 | |
| 6029810279 | Lothario | used to describe a man whose chief interest is seducing a woman; from the play The Fair Penitent by Nicholas Rowe, the main character and the seducer | 79 | |
| 6029810280 | Malapropism | The usually unintentional humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase, especially the use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended, but ludicrously wrong in context | 80 | |
| 6029811926 | Milquetoast | a timid, weak, or unassertive person | 81 | |
| 6029811927 | Pickwickian | humorous, sometimes derogatory | 82 | |
| 6029811928 | Pollyanna | a person characterized by impermissible optimism and a tendency to find good in everything, a foolishly or blindly optimistic person | 83 | |
| 6029814026 | Pooh-bah | a pompous, ostentatious official, especially one who, holding many offices, fulfills none of them, a person who holds high office | 84 | |
| 6029814027 | Quixotic | having foolish and impractical ideas of honor, or schemes for the general good | 85 | |
| 6029815670 | Robot | a machine that looks like a human being and performs various acts of a human being, a similar but functional machine whose lack of capacity for human emotions is often emphasized by an efficient, insensitive person who functions automatically | 86 | |
| 6029815671 | Rodomontade | bluster and boasting | 87 | |
| 6029817350 | Scrooge | a bitter and/or greedy person; from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, an elderly stingy miser who is given a reality check by 3 visiting ghosts | 88 | |
| 6029817351 | Simon Legree | a harsh, cruel, or demanding person in authority, such as an employer or officer that acts in this manner | 89 | |
| 6029817352 | Svengali | a person with an irresistible hypnotic power ; from a person in a novel written in 1894 by George Mauriers; a musician who hypnotizes and gains control over the heroine | 90 | |
| 6029817353 | Tartuffe | hypocrite or someone who is hypocritical; central character in a comedy by Moliere produced in 1667; Moliere was famous for his hypocritical piety | 91 | |
| 6029819413 | Uncle Tom | someone thought to have the timid service attitude like that of a slave to his owner | 92 | |
| 6029819414 | Uriah Hee | a fawning toadie, an obsequious person; from a character in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield | 93 | |
| 6029819415 | Walter Mitty | a commonplace non-adventuresome person who seeks escape from reality through Daydreaming, a henpecked husband or dreamer; after a daydreaming henpecked "hero" in a story by James Thurber | 94 | |
| 6029821235 | Yahoo | a boorish, crass, or stupid person; from a member of a race of brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels who have the form and all the vices of humans | 95 | |
| 6029822752 | Absolom | a son who brings heartache to his father; from the third son of David, King of Israel. Exiled for three years before he was allowed to return to the court or see his royal father | 96 | |
| 6029822753 | Alpha and Omega | The beginning and the end, from a quote in Revelations in the New Testament | 97 | |
| 6029824217 | Cain | a brother who kills a brother | 98 | |
| 6029824218 | Daniel | one known for wisdom and accurate judgment; from a wise leader in the Old Testament who was able to read the handwriting on the wall | 99 | |
| 6029824219 | David and Bethsheba | represents a big sin | 100 | |
| 6029826474 | Eye of the Needle | A very difficult task | 101 | |
| 6029826475 | Filthy Lucre | Money or profits; from a story in the NT of Jesus casting moneylenders out of the Temple | 102 | |
| 6029826476 | Goliath | a large person; from the giant from the Philistine city of Gath, slain by David, when he was a shepherd boy | 103 | |
| 6029828703 | Good Samaritan | someone who helps another person, perhaps someone of a different race or background | 104 | |
| 6029830287 | Handwriting on the wall | what the future holds | 105 | |
| 6029831808 | Ishmael | one who is cast out as being unworthy; the son of Abraham and his handmaiden Hagar, he was cast out into the desert when his wife Sarah had their son Isaac; therefore said to be the ancestor of the nomadic desert tribes of Arabs | 106 | |
| 6029831809 | Jacob | grandson of Abraham, son of Isaac and Rebekah, brother of Esau, and the traditional ancestor of Israelites | 107 | |
| 6029831810 | Job | who suffers a great deal but remains faithful; from an OT character whose faith in God was tested by Satan; though he lost his family and belongings, he remained patient and faithful | 108 | |
| 6029831811 | Job's comforters | "friends" who try to help by bringing blame | 109 | |
| 6029833164 | Jonah | one who brings bad luck | 110 | |
| 6029833165 | Judas | a traitor or a treacherous kiss | 111 | |
| 6029833166 | King Ahab and Jezabel | an evil king of Israel and his treacherous evil wife, synonymous today with evil | 112 | |
| 6029833167 | Manna | a sustaining life-giving source or food | 113 | |
| 6029834862 | Original Sin/The Fall | the idea that all men are innately sinful as a result of Adam and Eve's fall from the state of innocence | 114 | |
| 6029837398 | Pearl of Great Price | something so precious that one would devote everything to or give up everything for it | 115 | |
| 6029837399 | Phillistine | a person indifferent or hostile to the arts and refinement; from Sea-going people from Crete who became enemies of the Israelites and fought over their lands | 116 | |
| 6029837400 | Prodigal Son | a wasteful son who disappoints his father; from the NT parable of a man with two sons. When he split his estate between the two, the younger son gathered his fortune and left home to live the wild life, while the older son stayed home to work in the fields. When the younger son spent all of the money, he came crawling back to his father, who accepted him, pardoning his error by saying he was "lost but was found | 117 | |
| 6029838933 | Ruth and Naomi | paragons of love between in-laws; faithful friends | 118 | |
| 6029838934 | Samson and Delilah | Treacherous love story | 119 | |
| 6029838935 | Scapegoat | one that is made an object of blame for others | 120 | |
| 6029838936 | Sepulcher | tomb in the OT | 121 | |
| 6029840801 | Sodom and Gomorrah | any place associated with wickedness or sin | 122 | |
| 6029840802 | Solomon | an extremely wise person; from the son of King David, the Israelite king who wrote Proverbs, and was known for wisdom | 123 | |
| 6029840803 | Twelve Tribes of Israel | according to the Old Testament, the Hebrew people took possession of the Promised Land of Canaan after the death of Moses and named the tribes after the sons and grandson of Jacob | 124 | |
| 6029843824 | Attila | barbarian, rough leader; King of the Huns from 433-453 and the most successful of the barbarian invaders of the Roman Empire | 125 | |
| 6029843825 | Berserk | destructively or frenetically violent, mental or emotional upset; a warrior clothed in bear skin who worked himself into a frenzy before battle | 126 | |
| 6029843826 | Bloomer | undergarments for dance or active wear; underwear formally worn by females that was composed of loose trousers gathered at the ankles | 127 | |
| 6029843827 | Bowdlerize | to censor, expurgate prudishly, to modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing content | 128 | |
| 6029843828 | Boycott | to act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion | 129 | |
| 6029845461 | Canopy | an overhanging protection or shelter, to cover or hover above | 130 | |
| 6029845462 | Casanova | a man who is amorously and gallantly attentive to women; a promiscuous man | 131 | |
| 6029845463 | Chauvinist | one who has a militant devotion to and glorification of one's country, fanatical patriotism, prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's own gender, group, or kind | 132 | |
| 6029848049 | Derrick | a machine for hoisting and moving heavy objects, consisting of a movable boom equipped with cables and pulleys and connected to the base of an upright stationary beam, a tall framework over a drilled hole, esp. an oil well, used to support boring equipment | 133 | |
| 6029848050 | Donnybrook | any riotous occasion | 134 | |
| 6029848051 | Dungaree | a style of casual work pants | 135 | |
| 6029850718 | El Dorado | a place of reputed wealth; from the legendary city in South America, sought by early Spanish explorers | 136 | |
| 6029850719 | Hackney | to make something banal or trite by frequent use, a horse for ordinary riding or driving, a horse kept for hire, let out, employed, or done for hire | 137 | |
| 6029850720 | Horatio Alger | one who believes that a person can make it on his own merits; from (1832-99) American writer of inspirational adventure books | 138 | |
| 6029852490 | Laconic | using or marked by the use of few words, brief | 139 | |
| 6029852491 | Limerick | a humorous or nonsense verse of five lines | 140 | |
| 6029852492 | Machiavellian | characterized by expedience, deceit and cunning | 141 | |
| 6029852493 | Marathon | a long distance race; source of the Victory of the Greeks over Persians in 490 B.C. | 142 | |
| 6029855243 | McCarthyism | modern witch hunt, the practice of publicizing accusations of political disloyalty or subversions with insufficient regard to evidence, the use of unfair investigatory or accusatory methods, in order to suppress opposition | 143 | |
| 6029855244 | Meander | to wander aimlessly | 144 | |
| 6029855279 | Mesmerize | to induce the state of being hypnotized | 145 | |
| 6029857439 | Nostradamus | fortune teller | 146 | |
| 6029857440 | Sardonic | bitterly ironical, sarcastic, sneering | 147 | |
| 6029857441 | Shanghai | to cheat or steal, to make drugs, liquor, etc.. to bring or get by trickery or force | 148 | |
| 6029857442 | Spartan | frugal and bare, simple, disciplined and stern and brave | 149 | |
| 6029857443 | Swiftian | satirical | 150 | |
| 6029859189 | Sybaritic | luxurious, voluptuous, a person who cares very much for luxury and pleasure | 151 | |
| 6029859190 | Thespian | having to do with the theater or acting | 152 | |
| 6029859191 | Uncle Sam | government of people of the United States | 153 | |
| 6029859268 | Utopia | an imaginary and perfect society | 154 | |
| 6029860910 | Wagnerian | style of music: loud, dramatic, radical | 155 | |
| 6029860911 | Waterloo | A decisive or final defeat or setback; Belgian 1816, source of Napoleon's last defeat | 156 | |
| 6030285555 | Stonewall | hinder or obstruct by evasive, delaying tactics | 157 |
