11040760888 | HOW MUCH DO I KNOW? | ALL OF IT | 0 | |
11040764447 | Achilles' heel | weak point | 1 | |
11040767243 | Adonis | handsome young man | 2 | |
11040768734 | Aeolian | anything pertaining to wind; god who was Keeper of Wind | 3 | |
11040786460 | Apollo | god of music, poetry, prophecy, and medicine | 4 | |
11040787921 | Argus-eyed | omniscient, all-seeing; from Argus, the 100-eyed monster that Hera had guarding Io | 5 | |
11040791325 | Athena/Minerva | goddess of wisdom, the city, and arts; patron goddess of the city of Athens | 6 | |
11040794072 | Atlantean | strong like Atlas -who carried the globe (world) on his shoulders | 7 | |
11040804440 | Aurora | early morning or sunrise; from the Roman personification of Dawn or Eos | 8 | |
11040808745 | bacchanal | a drunken party or celebration | 9 | |
11040827295 | bacchanalian | pertaining to riotous or drunken festivity; pertaining to revelry | 10 | |
11040836295 | Calliope | an organ-like musical instrument having a keyboard that operates steam whistles | 11 | |
11040837979 | 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 | 12 | |
11040842237 | Centaur | a monster that had the head, arms, and chest of a man, and the body and legs of a horse | 13 | |
11040844958 | chimera | a fantasy; a horrible creature of the imagination | 14 | |
11040849531 | cupidity | (n.) an eager desire for something; greed | 15 | |
11040851133 | erotic | pertaining to or arousing sexual love and desire | 16 | |
11040852624 | furor | frenzy; great anger and excitement; CF. fury | 17 | |
11040855825 | 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 | 18 | |
11040865763 | halycon | calm, peaceful | 19 | |
11040867905 | Harpy | a predatory person or nagging woman; from harpy, a foul creature that was part woman, part bird | 20 | |
11040872513 | Hector | to bully; to pester | 21 | |
11040901420 | Helen | Wife of Menelaus and queen of Sparta. Helen's abduction from Sparta by the Trojans sparked the Trojan War. Her beauty is without parallel, but she is criticized for giving in to her Trojan captors and thereby costing many Greek men their lives. She offers Telemachus assistance in his quest to find his father. | 22 | |
11040918861 | herculean | very difficult; requiring the strength of Hercules | 23 | |
11040933281 | Hydra-Headed | having many centers or branches, hard to bring under control; something bad you cannot eradicate; from Hydra, the 9-headed serpent that was sacred to Hera. Hercules killed him in one of the 12 labors. | 24 | |
11040944959 | iridescent | displaying a play of lustrous colors like those of the rainbow | 25 | |
11040947040 | jovial | (adj.) good-humored, in high spirits; merry | 26 | |
11040962949 | Junoesque | marked by stately beauty; comes from the word Juno, the wife of Jupiter, the Goddess of light, birth, women, and marriage | 27 | |
11040968266 | lethargy | lack of energy; sluggishness | 28 | |
11040980237 | martial | warlike; relating to the military | 29 |
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