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| 3926407752 | Atilla | barbarian, rough leader; King of the Huns from 433-453 and the most successful of the barbarian invaders of the Roman Empire | 0 | |
| 3926407753 | Berserk | descructively or frenetically violent, mental, or emotial upset; a warrior clothed in bear skin who worked himself into a frenzy before battle | 1 | |
| 3926407754 | 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 | 2 | |
| 3926407755 | Bowdlerize | to censor, expurgate prudishly, to modify, as by shortening or simplifying or skewing content; after a man who expurgated Shakespeare | 3 | |
| 3926407756 | 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. Named after a former British soldier, refused to charge lower rents and ejected his tenants. He and his family found themselves without servants, farmlands, service in stores, or mail delivery. His name was adapted as the term for this treatment | 4 | |
| 3926407757 | Canopy | an overhanging protection or shelter, to cover up or hover above | 5 | |
| 3926407758 | Casanova | 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 | 6 | |
| 3926407759 | Chauvinist | one who has a militant to and glorification of one's country, fanatical patriotism, prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's own gender, group or kind; named after a legendary French soldier devoted to Napoleon | 7 | |
| 3926407760 | 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 hold, esp. an oil well, used to support boring equipment; named after a London hangman | 8 | |
| 3926407761 | Donnybrook | any riotous occasion; taken from a fair held in Dublin County, Ireland until 1855 which was famous for rioting and dissipation | 9 | |
| 3926407762 | Dungaree | a style of casual work pants; from a coarse cotton fabric of East Indian origin; from a Hindu word | 10 | |
| 3926407763 | El Dorado | a place of reputed wealth; from the legendary city in South America, sought by early Spanish explorers | 11 | |
| 3926407764 | 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 | 12 | |
| 3926407765 | Horatio Alger | one who believes that a person can make it on his own merits; from the American writer of inspirational adventure books | 13 | |
| 3926407766 | Laconic | using or marked by the use of few words, brief; from the reputation of the Spartans for brevity of speech | 14 | |
| 3926407767 | Limerick | a humorous or nonsense verse of five lines; from a county in the Republic of Ireland where the form is said to have originated | 15 | |
| 3926407768 | Machiavellian | characterized by expedience, deceit and cunning, after a philosopher known for his treaties and political expediency, wrote "The Prince" | 16 | |
| 3926407769 | Marathon | a long distance race, source of the Victory of the Greeks over Persians in 490 BC | 17 | |
| 3926407770 | 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 | 18 | |
| 3926407771 | Meander | to wander aimlessly, originating from a rider in Turkey noted for its winding course | 19 | |
| 3926407772 | Mesmerize | to induce the state of being hypnotized; named for an Austrian physician who used hypnotism and develped a theory called "animal magnetism" | 20 | |
| 3926407773 | Nostradamus | fortune teller, French physician and astrologer who wrote a book of rhymed prophecies | 21 | |
| 3926407774 | Sardonic | bitterly ironical, sarcastic, sneering; from a plant said to bring on fits of laughter | 22 | |
| 3926407775 | 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 | 23 | |
| 3926407776 | 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 | 24 | |
| 3926407777 | 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. | 25 | |
| 3926407778 | Swiftian | satirical; from an author's famous satire on politics in Gulliver's Travels | 26 | |
| 3926407779 | Sybaritic | luxurious, voluptuous, a person who cares very much for luxury and pleasure; an inhabitant of a town founded by the Greeks in ancient Italy, which was known for its luxury | 27 | |
| 3926407780 | 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 | 28 | |
| 3926407781 | Uncle Sam | government of people of the United States, derived from a businessman with initals US on shipping boxes in 1800's | 29 | |
| 3926407782 | Utopia | an imaginary and perfect society; name of a Thomas More novel | 30 | |
| 3926407783 | Wagnerian | style of music: loud, dramatic, radical; having to do with a certain composer's music, style, or theories | 31 | |
| 3926407784 | Waterloo | a decisive or final defeat or setback; Belgian 1816, source of Napoleon's last defeat | 32 |
