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| 2843928798 | Attila | barbarian, rough leader; King of the Huns from 433-453 and the most successful ofthe barbarian invaders of the Roman Empire | 0 | |
| 2843931396 | Bloomer | undergarments for dance or active war; underwear formally worn by females that was composed of loose trousers gathered at the angkles; invented by an American woman social reformer | 1 | |
| 2843932218 | Cassanova | a man who is amorously and gallantly attentive to women; a promiscuous man; named after an Italian adventurer who established a legendary reputation as a lover | 2 | |
| 2843934629 | El Dorado | a place of reputed wealth; from the legendary city in South America, sought by early Spanish explorers | 3 | |
| 2843935581 | 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 fore hire; from the most name of the most common breed of heavy harness horses in the US | 4 | |
| 2843936454 | Horatio Alger | one who believes that a person can make it on his own merits; from the American writer of inspirational adventure books | 5 | |
| 2843938246 | Machiavellian | characterized by expedience, deceit and cunning, after a philosopher known for his treaties and political expediency, wrote "The Prince" | 6 | |
| 2843939203 | 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; after an American politician who was a US senator from WWI publicly accused many citizens of subversion | 7 | |
| 2843941000 | Shanghai | to cheat or steal, to make drugs, liquor, etc. to bring or get by trickery or force; a seaport in East China where sailors on voyages there often could secure illicit means | 8 | |
| 2843942269 | Spartan | frugal and bare, simple, disciplined and stern and brace; having to do with an important city in Greece, the people there were known for simplicity of life, severity, courage, and brevity of speech | 9 | |
| 2843943239 | Stonewall | hinder or obstruct by evasive, delaying tactics; in cricket: trying to go completely defensive, blocking every ball without trying to score; relating to a Confederate General from the remark during the Battle of Bull Run. | 10 | |
| 2843944416 | Swiftian | satirical; from an authors famous satire on politics in Gulliver's Travels | 11 | |
| 2843945366 | Thespian | having to do with the theater or acting; relating to an Attic poet of the 6th century BC, reputed to the father of Greek tragedy | 12 | |
| 2843946155 | Uncle Sam | government of people of the United States, derived from a businessman with initals US on shipping boxes in 1800's | 13 | |
| 2843946950 | Utopia | an imaginary perfect world or society | 14 | |
| 2843947858 | Wagnerian | style of music: loud, dramatic, radical; having to do with a certain composer's music, style, or theories | 15 | |
| 2843948462 | Waterloo | a decisive or final defet or setback; Belgian 1816, source of Napoleon's last defeat | 16 | |
| 2843991390 | Brobdingnagian | a person of enormous size, as from Brobdingnag in Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Cf. Lilliputian. | 17 | |
| 2843992681 | Cinderella | a person or group who achieves success after previously being unknown or neglected. "rags to riches" | 18 | |
| 2843998857 | Don Juan | a libertine, profligate, a man obsessed with seducing women; after Don Juan, the legendary 14th century Spanish nobleman and libertine | 19 | |
| 2844014570 | 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 | 20 | |
| 2844017262 | Falstaffian | full of wit and bawdy humor, after Falstaff, a fat, sensual, boastful and mendacious knight who was the companion of Henry, Prince of Wales | 21 | |
| 2844019092 | 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 | 22 | |
| 2844020145 | Friday | a faithful and willing attendant, ready to turn his hand to anything; from the young savage found by Robinson Crusoe on a Friday, and kept as his servant and companion on the desert island | 23 | |
| 2844021851 | Galahad | a pure and noble man with limited ambition; in the legends of King Arthur, the purest and most virtuous night of the Round Table, the only knight to find the holy grail | 24 | |
| 2844027614 | Jekyll and Hyde | a person with two distinct personalities, one good, the other evil | 25 | |
| 2844028406 | Lilluputian | descriptive of a very small person or of something diminutive, trivial or petty; after the Lilliputians, tiny people in Gullivar's Travels by Jonathan Swift | 26 | |
| 2844030928 | 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 | 27 | |
| 2844034570 | Pickwickian | humorous, sometimes derogatory; from Samuel Pickwick, a character in Charles Dickens' Pickwickian Papers | 28 | |
| 2844035281 | Pollyanna | a person characterized by impermissible optimism and a tendency to find good in everything, a foolishly or blindly optimistic person; from Eleanor Porter's heroine, Pollyanna Whittier, in the book Pollyanna | 29 | |
| 2844037150 | Quixotic | having foolish and impractical ideas of honor, or schemes for the general good; after Don Quixote, a half-crazy reformer and knight of the supposed distressed, in a novel by the same name | 30 | |
| 2844039994 | 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 | 31 | |
| 2844041571 | 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 | 32 | |
| 2844043591 | Uncle Tom | someone thought to have the timid service attitude like that of a slave to his owner; from the humble, pious, long-suffering Negro slave in Uncle Tom's Cabin by abolitionist writer Stowe | 33 | |
| 2844044903 | Uriah Heep | a fawning toadie, an obsequious person; from a character in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield | 34 | |
| 2844047551 | 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 | 35 | |
| 2844049184 | 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 | 36 |
