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| 7337309219 | Achilles' heel | one spot that is most vulnerable; one weakness a person may have. | 0 | |
| 7337309220 | Adonis | handsome young man; Aphrodite loved him | 1 | |
| 7337309221 | Aeolian | anything pertaining to win; god who was Keeper of Wind | 2 | |
| 7337309222 | Apollo | a physically perfect male; the God of music and light; known for his beauty | 3 | |
| 7337309223 | Argus-eyed | omniscient, all-seeing; the 100-eyed monster | 4 | |
| 7337309224 | Athena/Minerva | goddess of wisdom, the city, and arts; patron goddess of the city of Athens | 5 | |
| 7337309226 | Aurora | early mornings or sunrise; from the Roman personification of Dawn or Eos | 6 | |
| 7337309231 | Centaur | a monster that has a head, arms, and chest of man, but the body/legs of a hourse | 7 | |
| 7337309232 | Chimera | a horrible creature of the imagination, an absurd or impossible idea; wild fancy; a monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail, supposed to breath out fire |  | 8 |
| 7337309233 | Cupid | eager "desire" to possess something; greed or avarice; Roman god of love (Greek = Eros) | 9 | |
| 7337309235 | Furies | wild enthusiasm or excitement, rage; fury | 10 | |
| 7337309236 | Gorgon (medusa) | a very ugly/terrible person, especially a repulsive woman; one or three sisters have snakes for hair and faces so horrible that anyone who looked at them would turn into stone |  | 11 |
| 7337309237 | Halcyon | clam, peaceful, tranquil--Archaic bird supposed to breed in a nest on the sea and calm water; identified with the kingfisher | 12 | |
| 7337309238 | Harpy | a predatory person or nagging woman; from harpy, a foul creature that was part woman and part bird | 13 | |
| 7337309239 | Hector | to bully; the son of Priam (king of Troy) and the braves Trojan warrior. Killed Achilles' friend Patroclus. | 14 | |
| 7337309240 | Helen (of Troy) | Hellenistic; of or relating to Greece; symbol of a beautiful woman; the daughter of Leda and Zeus--the cause of the Trojan war | 15 | |
| 7337309241 | Herculean | very strong or extraordinary power; Hera's glory, the son of Zeus. He performed the 12 labors imposed by Hera. | 16 | |
| 7337309242 | Hydra-Headed | having many centers of branches, hard to bring under control; something bad that you cannot eradicate; the nine-headed serpent that was sacred to Hera. Hercules killed him in one of the 12 labors. | 17 | |
| 7337309243 | Iridiscent/Iris | a play of colors producing a rainbow effect; the goddess of the rainbow | 18 | |
| 7337309244 | Jovial | good humored; used to express surprise or agreement (Jupiter) | 19 | |
| 7337309245 | Junoesque | marked by stately beauty; the wife of Jupiter, the Goddess of light, birth, women, and marriage | 20 | |
| 7337309246 | Lethe | n. abnormal drowsiness or inertia; a river in Hades that caused drinkers to forget their past | 21 | |
| 7337309247 | Martial / Mars | suited for war or a warrior; the Roman God of War | 22 | |
| 7337309248 | Medea | sorceress or enchantress; helped Jason and the Argonatus capture the Golden Fleece; known for her revenge against Jason when he spurned her for the princess of Corinth | 23 | |
| 7337309250 | Mercurial | suddenly, cranky, or changeable | 24 | |
| 7337309251 | Mercury/Hermes | a carrier or tidings, a newsboy, a messenger; messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence; the fabled inventor, wore winged hat and sandals | 25 | |
| 7337309253 | Morphine | a bitter white, crystalline alkaloid used to relieve pain and induce sleep; Morpheus was a god that could easily change form or shape | 26 | |
| 7337309254 | Muse | some creature of inspiration; the daughters of Mnemosyne and Zeus, divine singers that presided over thought in all of its form | 27 | |
| 7337309255 | Narcissism | in love with one's own image; a handsome young man who despised love. Echo, a nymph, who was in love with him, was rejected and decreed, "Let he who loves not others, love himself." Hearing this, he fell in love with himself and while gazing a image of himself in the pond, fell and drowned as he tried to recapture it. | 28 | |
| 7337309256 | Nemesis | just punishment, one who inflicts due punishment; goddess who punished crime; she is the power charged with curbing all excess, such as excessive good fortune or arrogant pride. | 29 | |
| 7337309257 | Neptune | the sea personified; the Roman god associated with Poseidon, god of water and oceans | 30 | |
| 7337309258 | Niobe | mournful woman; whose children were slain by Apollo and Artemis because of her bragging; the gods pitied her and turned her into a rock that was always wet from weeping | 31 | |
| 7337309259 | Odyssey | a long journey, makes his long journey back from the Trojan War, encountering several long obstacles along the way | 32 | |
| 7337309260 | Olympian | majestic in manner, superior to mundane affairs; any participant in the ancient or modern Olympic games; named after 12 gods that were supposed to reside on Mt. Olympus | 33 | |
| 7337309261 | Paean | a song of joy; a ritual epithet of Apollo the healer; In Homeric poems, an independent god of healing, who took care of Hades | 34 | |
| 7337309262 | Pandora's Box | something that opens the door for bad occurrences, opened by someone known for curiosity; was the first mortal, sent by Zeus, to punish man from Prometheus' theft of fire. For her curiosity on opening the box, Zeus gave her all human ills in the world, leaving only hope at the bottom | 35 | |
| 7337309263 | Parnassus | Mountain was sacred to arts and literature; any center of poetic or artistic activity; poetry or poets collectively, a common title for selection of poetry; the son of Poseidon and a Nymph. He founded the oracle of Python, which was later occupied by Apollo | 36 | |
| 7337309264 | Pegasus | Poetic inspiration; named after a winged horse which sprang from the blood of Medusa at her death; a stamp of his hoof caused Hippocrene, the fountain of Muses to issue poetic inspiration from Mount Helicone | 37 | |
| 7337309265 | Phoenix | symbol of immortality or rebirth; a long bird which lived in the Arabian desert and then consumed itself in fire, rising renewed from the flame to start another life | 38 | |
| 7337309266 | Plutocracy | a government by the wealthy; the "Rich Man," who was originally the god of the fields b/c the ground was the source of all wealth/ores/jewels | 39 | |
| 7337309267 | Promethean | life-bringing, creative, or courageously original; named after the Titan who brought man the use of fire which he had stolen from heaven for their benefit | 40 | |
| 7337309268 | Protean | versatile, taking many forms; a god of the sea, charged with tending the flocks of the sea creatures belonging to Poseidon. He had the ability to change himself into whatever he desired, using the power particularly when he wanted to elude certain questions. | 41 | |
| 7337309269 | Psyche | the human soul, self, the mind; a man who, after undergoing many hardships due to Aphrodite's jealousy, reunited with Cupid and was made immortal by Jupiter; she personifies the soul joined to the heart of love | 42 | |
| 7337309270 | Pygmalion | someone (male) who tries to fashion someone into the person he desires; from a myth adapted into a play by George Bernard Shaw; a woman-hating sculptor who makes a female figure of ivory who Aphrodite brings into life | 43 | |
| 7337309271 | Pyrrhic victory | adj. too costly victory; a Greek king who defeated the Romans but suffered extremely heavy losses in fight | 44 | |
| 7337309272 | Saturnalia | a period of unrestrained revelry, with general feasting in revelry in honor of the winter solstice | 45 | |
| 7337309273 | Sibyl | a witch or sorceress; a priestess who made known the oracles of Apollo and possessed the gift of prophecy | 46 | |
| 7337309274 | Sisyphean | greedy and avaricious; from the shrewd and greedy king of Corinth, was doomed forever in Hades to roll uphill a heavy stone, which rolled back down again | 47 | |
| 7337309276 | Stygian | dark and gloomy; a river in the Underworld. The water is poisonous for human and cattle and said to break iron, metal, and pottery though it is said a horse's hoof is unharmed by it | 48 | |
| 7337309277 | Tantalize | from King Tantalus, who reigned on Mt. Sipylus and was condemned to reside in a beautiful river with sumptuous fruits just out of reach and the water undrinkable, always tempting him as punishment for excessive pride (he boiled his son and fed the broth to trick the gods) | 49 | |
| 7337309279 | Titanic | large, grand, enormous; after Tityus, a giant, the son of Zeus and Elara. His body covers over 2 acres. Or after the titans, the offspring of Chronus and Rhea, who went to war against Zeus and the other Olympian gods | 50 | |
| 7337309281 | Vulcanize / Vulcan | to treat rubber with sulfur to increase strength and elasticity; from Roman God of Fore and Metallurgy, Vulcan/Hephaestus | 51 | |
| 7337309282 | Zeus | a powerful man; king of the gods, ruler of Mt. Olympus, vengeful hurler of thunderbolts | 52 | |
| 7392771561 | Bacchus / Dionysus | God of the vine, grape harvest, winemaking, wine, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and Theatre | 53 | |
| 7392777009 | Zephyr | Zephuros the god of the west wind, and the bringer of light and early spring breezes | 54 |
