Terms : Hide Images
| 3924990203 | 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; named after the main character in a novel by Sinclair Lewis | 0 | |
| 3924990204 | Brobdingnagian | gigantic, enormous, on a large scale, enlarged; named after the land of giants visited by Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift | 1 | |
| 3924990205 | Bumble | to speak or behave clumsily or faltering, to make a humming or droning sound; a clubsy religious figure in a work of literature | 2 | |
| 3924990206 | Cinderella | one who gains affluence or recognition after obscurity and neglect, a person or thing whose beauty or worth remains unrecognized; after the fairy-tale heroine who escapes from a life of drudgery through the intervention of a fairy godmother and marries a handsome prince | 3 | |
| 3924990207 | Don Juan | a libertine, profligate, a man obsessed with seducing women; named after the legendary 14th century Spanish nobleman and libertine character | 4 | |
| 3924990208 | 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 | 5 | |
| 3924990209 | Panglossian | blindly or misleadinngly optimistic; after a character in Candide by Voltair, a pedantic old tutor | 6 | |
| 3924990210 | Falstaffian | full of wit and bawdy humor; named after a fat, sensual, boastful, and mendacious knight who was the companion of Henry, Prince of Wales | 7 | |
| 3924990211 | 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 | 8 | |
| 3924990212 | Friday | a faithful and willing attendant, ready to turn his hand to anything; from the young savage found by Robinson Crusoe and kept as his servant and companion on the desert island | 9 | |
| 3924990213 | Galahad | a pure and noble man with limited ambition; in the legends of King Arthur, the purest and most virtous knight of the Round Table, the only knight to find the Holy Grail | 10 | |
| 3924990214 | Jekyll and Hyde | a capricious person with two sides to his/her personality; from a character in a novel who had a split personality (one good and one evil) | 11 | |
| 3924990215 | Lilliputian | descriptive of a very small person or of something diminutive, trivial or petty; after the tiny people in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift | 12 | |
| 3924990216 | 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 in Frances H. Burnett, the main character, 7 year old Cedric Errol was a striking figure, dressed in black velevet with a lace collar and yellow curls | 13 | |
| 3924990217 | Lothario | used to describe a man whose chief interest is seducing a woman; from the play The Fiar Penitent by Nicholas Rowe, the main character and seducer | 14 | |
| 3924990218 | 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; named after a character noted for her misuse of words in R.B. Sheridan's comedy The Rivals | 15 | |
| 3924990219 | Milquetoast | a timid, weak, or unassertive person; from a comic strip character created by H.T. Webster | 16 | |
| 3924990220 | Pickwickian | humorous, sometimes derogatory; from character in a Charles Dickens' novel | 17 | |
| 3924990221 | 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 heronine in her novel | 18 | |
| 3924990222 | Pooh-bah | a pompous, ostentatious official, especially one who, holding many offices, fulfills none of them; a person who holds high office; after a character in The Mikado, a musical by Gilbert and Sullivan | 19 | |
| 3924990223 | Quixotic | having foolish and impractical ideas of honor, or schemes for the general good; after a half-crazy reformer and knight of the supposed distressed | 20 | |
| 3924990224 | 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, a mechanism guided by controls from a Karel Capek novel | 21 | |
| 3924990225 | Rodomontade | bluster and boasting; to boast; from a brave but braggart knight in Bojardo's Orlando Inamorato; King of Sarza or Algiers, son of Ulteus, and commander of both horse and foot in the Saracen Army | 22 | |
| 3924990226 | Scrooge | a bitter and/or greedy person; from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, an elderly stingy miser who is given a reality check by three visiting ghosts | 23 | |
| 3924990227 | Simon Legree | a harsh, cruel, or demanding person in authority, such as an employer or officer that acts in this manner; from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Ward, the brutal slave overseer | 24 | |
| 3924990228 | Svengali | a person with an irresistible hypnotic power; from a person in a novel written in 1894 by George Maueriers; a musician who hynotizes and gains control over the heroine | 25 | |
| 3924990229 | Tartuffe | hypocrite or someone who is hypocritical; central charcter in a comedy by Moliere produced in 1667 who was famous for his hypocritical piety | 26 | |
| 3924990230 | 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 a novel by abolitionist writer Stowe | 27 | |
| 3924990231 | Uriah Heep | a fawning toadie, an obsequious person; from a character in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield | 28 | |
| 3924990232 | Walter Mitty | a commonplace non-adventuresome person who seeks escape from reality through daydreaming; a henpecked husband or dreamer, aftera daydreaming henpecked "hero" in a story by James Thurber | 29 | |
| 3924990233 | Yahoo | a boorish, crass, or stupid person; from a member of the race of brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels who have the form and all the vices of humans | 30 |
