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| 8030737827 | Adonis | beautiful, immortal man; deserved vanity | 0 | |
| 8030737828 | All the world's a stage | Shakespeare's "As You Like it"; reducing the life of human beings to a performance | 1 | |
| 8030739000 | Alpha and Omega | greek alphabet; the beginning and the end, supreme being and lowest rank | 2 | |
| 8030739001 | Apocalypse | biblical allusion; the end of the world (any ending) | 3 | |
| 8030740760 | Armageddon | biblical allusion; struggle of violence; the end of the world | 4 | |
| 8030743504 | Byronic | Lord Byron, romantic poet; dark, moody, mysterious | 5 | |
| 8030743505 | Cain and Abel | biblical allusion; children of Adam and Eve, Cain kills Abel and becomes the first murderer | 6 | |
| 8030744292 | Camelot | kingdom of King Arthur; represents a land of fantasy | 7 | |
| 8030745209 | Cyrano | character who doesn't look pretty, but is talented | 8 | |
| 8030746239 | David and Bathsheba | biblical allusion; King David's affair with Bathsheba; references a significant sin | 9 | |
| 8030746240 | David and Goliath | biblical allusion; David (the little guy who fought in God's army) defeats Goliath (huge guy) | 10 | |
| 8030747361 | Don Quixote | insane Spanish character who believes he's a knight; consequences aren't accounted for | 11 | |
| 8030747362 | Don Juan | Spanish character (man) obsessed with seducing women; thought he could escape death and pay for sins later | 12 | |
| 8030748782 | Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde character; narcissist who committed each sin to see how it affected him; avoiding death | 13 | |
| 8030748783 | Excalibur | King Arthur's sword, given to him to become King; whoever has it has the kingdom and power | 14 | |
| 8030750030 | Eye of the Needle | biblical allusion; Jesus saying how difficult it is to do something | 15 | |
| 8030751422 | "Face that launched a thousand ships" | Helen of Troy sparked the Trojan Wars | 16 | |
| 8030751423 | Four Horsemen | biblical allusion; four horsemen of the apocalypse: death, famine, war, pestilence | 17 | |
| 8030752367 | Galahad | Arthurian knight of the round table, known for purity and gallantry; euphemism for virginity | 18 | |
| 8030752368 | Gauntlet | insulting challenge in medieval times; "running the gauntlet" means going through a challenge | 19 | |
| 8030753146 | Good Samaritan | biblical allusion; super helpful person willing to help anyone | 20 | |
| 8030754389 | Handwriting on the Wall | biblical allusion; showing some event that was known to be coming (usually negative) | 21 | |
| 8030754390 | Harpy | greek/roman mythology; half bird/half woman; nagging or predatory person | 22 | |
| 8030755036 | Hatfields and McCoys | two families in the Appalachian mountains known for bitter feuds; similar to Romeo and Juliet | 23 | |
| 8030755037 | Hector | son of King Troy, part of Trojan army; bully or someone who is loud, aggressive, and dominate | 24 | |
| 8030756095 | Icarus | greek mythology; Icarus flies too close to the sun and falls to his death in the sea; someone who fails by not listening to a voice of reason | 25 | |
| 8030756096 | Ishmael | biblical allusion; son of Abraham and a handmaiden, born wicked but repented; banished with his mom, outcast from birth | 26 | |
| 8030756990 | Jezebel | Jewish parable; King Ahab's wicked wife is killed for imposing her religion on others, leading people astray | 27 | |
| 8030756991 | Job | biblical allusion; loyal servant to God who is tested by God and Satan; "The lord giveth and taketh away" | 28 | |
| 8030756992 | Judas | biblical allusion; one of 12 disciples, took pleasure in money and offered up Jesus to the Romans; betrayed Jesus by revealing him with the kiss of death, killed himself in grief | 29 | |
| 8030758263 | Immaculate Conception | biblical allusion; Mary was born without original sin; first ever to be born pure | 30 | |
| 8030758264 | Lemmings | type of rodent that commits mass suicide; describes a person who follows people without question | 31 | |
| 8030759303 | Lilliputians | "Gulliver's Travel" tiny characters; someone or something that is small, irrelevant, or petty | 32 | |
| 8030759304 | Lothario | a guy who is a womanizer, selfish with his sexual relations with women | 33 | |
| 8030760455 | Machiavellian | Nicola Machiavelli's "The Prince" theory; holding onto power, better to be feared than loved | 34 | |
| 8030760456 | Malaprop | the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar, creating a humorous effect | 35 | |
| 8030760457 | Manna | biblical allusion; food that kept Israelites alive, tested and humbled them; assistance, unexpected good fortune | 36 | |
| 8030761785 | "Marriage of true minds" | Shakespeare; a love that goes beyond a spiritual connection | 37 | |
| 8030761786 | Mercurial | Roman mythology; Roman god Mercury; a person who is liable to sudden, unpredictable change | 38 | |
| 8030762751 | Modest Proposal | Jonathon Swift's book about Irish Famine; a satirical work about how the way the saving their country is eating babies | 39 | |
| 8030762752 | Muse | greek mythology; someone who inspires creativity | 40 | |
| 8030763616 | Narcissism | greek mythology; a person who is very arrogant and vain | 41 | |
| 8030763617 | Olympian | greek mythology; majestic, God-like | 42 | |
| 8030765083 | "Out, Damned Spot!" | Shakespeare's "Macbeth"; when Lady Macbeth can't wash away blood stains from the murders they commit; referencing how one cannot escape their actions | 43 | |
| 8030765084 | Pandora's box | greek mythology; gift from Zeus to his enemy's brother; a prolific source of troubles | 44 | |
| 8030765979 | Pavlovian | Ivan Pavlov's theory; reflexive and unconscious response to a stimulus | 45 | |
| 8030765980 | Pericles | great greek leader who developed Athens's culture, democracy, and power during its Golden Age | 46 | |
| 8030766843 | Poetic Justice | outcome in which bias is punished and virtue rewarded, usually in an ironically appropriate manner | 47 | |
| 8030767812 | "Pound of flesh" | Shakespeare; something that is owed and ruthlessly required to pay back | 48 | |
| 8030767813 | Primrose Path | Shakespeare's "Hamlet"; a path of ease, or of least resistance, which probably leads to downfall | 49 | |
| 8030769048 | Prodigal Son | biblical allusion; greedy, ungrateful son who returns home and is forgiven; never too late to come back home | 50 | |
| 8030770588 | Pyrrhic victory | battle fought by King Pierce; a too costly victory | 51 | |
| 8030772225 | Samson & Delilah | biblical allusion; two people who fall in love, but then Delilah betrays Samson; traitorous, voluptuous woman | 52 | |
| 8030773161 | Sodom and Gomorrah | biblical allusion; two cities that God destroyed becuase of the illicit sexual sins; punishment of the wicked and rewarding good people | 53 | |
| 8030773162 | Solomon | biblical allusion; son of Kind David who later became king; known for his wisdom | 54 | |
| 8030774123 | "Sound and Fury" | Shakespeare's "Macbeth"; an uproar of little importance | 55 | |
| 8030775022 | Svengali | someone who exercises excessive control or influence over another person | 56 | |
| 8030775023 | Tantalize | greek mythology; a man who ate with the Gods, but then insulted them and was cursed to be surrounded by food and drink, but not able to consume it; tease, torment by teasing | 57 | |
| 8030775995 | "The best of all possible worlds" | Voltare; satire that is used to represent the benefits of widely different situations | 58 | |
| 8030775996 | The phoenix | greek mythology; a long-lived bird that is reborn; represents life and rebirth | 59 | |
| 8030777655 | Titanic | greek mythology; titan warriors who were super strong and ruled Olympus; strength and power | 60 | |
| 8030778262 | Uncle Tom | "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; a black person who is eager to win the approval of white people and willing to cooperate with them; betrayal of social allegiances | 61 | |
| 8030778263 | Valhalla | Norse mythology; a place assigned to people of special honor | 62 | |
| 8030779255 | Waterloo | battle between the French and English which ended Napoleon's rule; a defeat that is impossible to recover from | 63 | |
| 8030779256 | Yahoo | an imaginary race from "Gulliver's Travels"; a rude or violent person | 64 |
