| 6029418196 | Achilles' heel | today, one spot that is most vulnerable; one weakness a person may have | | 0 |
| 6029422388 | Adonis | handsome young man; Aphrodite loved him | | 1 |
| 6029424778 | Aeolian | anything pertaining to wind; god who was Keeper of Wind | | 2 |
| 6029428223 | Apollo | a physically perfect male; the God of music and light; known for his physical beauty | | 3 |
| 6029431499 | Argus-eyed | omniscient, all-seeing; from Argus, the 100-eyed monster that Hera had guarding Io | | 4 |
| 6029435533 | Athena/Minerva | goddess of wisdom, the city, and arts; patron goddess of the city of Athens | | 5 |
| 6029440498 | Atlantean | strong like Atlas - who carried the globe on his shoulders | | 6 |
| 6029442991 | Aurora | early morning or sunrise; from the Roman personification of Dawn or Eos | | 7 |
| 6029445924 | Bacchanal | wild, drunken party or rowdy celebration; from god of wine Bacchus | | 8 |
| 6029449597 | Bacchanalian | pertaining to a wild, drunken party or celebration from god of wine | | 9 |
| 6029456724 | Calliope | series of whistles --circus organ; from the Muse of eloquence or beautiful voice | | 10 |
| 6029465315 | 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 | | 11 |
| 6029468346 | Centaur | a monster that had the head, arms, and chest
of a man, and the body and legs of a horse | | 12 |
| 6029471980 | 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 breathe out fire | | 13 |
| 6029471981 | Cupidity | eager "desire" to possess something; greed
or avarice; Roman god of love | | 14 |
| 6029471982 | Erotic | of or having to do with sexual passion or love;
Greek god of love | | 15 |
| 6029474552 | Furor | wild enthusiasm or
excitement, rage | | 16 |
| 6029474553 | 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 | | 17 |
| 6029474554 | Halcyon | clam, peaceful, tranquil --Archaic bird
supposed to breed in a nest on the sea and calm the
water, identified with the kingfisher | | 18 |
| 6029474555 | Harpy | a predatory person or nagging woman | | 19 |
| 6029476224 | Hector | to bully | | 20 |
| 6029476225 | Helen | of or relating to Greece,
or a Specialist of language or culture in Greece; symbol
of a beautiful woman | | 21 |
| 6029476226 | Herculean | very strong or of extraordinary power | | 22 |
| 6029476227 | Hydra-Headed | having many centers or branches, hard
to bring under control; something bad you cannot
eradicate | | 23 |
| 6029478407 | Iridescent | a play of colors producing rainbow effects | | 24 |
| 6029478408 | Jovial | good humored | | 25 |
| 6029480402 | Junoesque | marked by stately beauty | | 26 |
| 6029480403 | Lethargy | abnormal drowsiness or inertia | | 27 |
| 6029480404 | Martial | suited for war or a warrior | | 28 |
| 6029482462 | Medea | sorceress or enchantress | | 29 |
| 6029482463 | Mentor | a trusted counselor or guide | | 30 |
| 6029482464 | Mercurial | suddenly cranky or changeable | | 31 |
| 6029484395 | 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 | | 32 |
| 6029484396 | Mnemonics | a device used to aid memory; the
personification of memory | | 33 |
| 6029484397 | Morphine | a bitter white, crystalline alkaloid used to
relieve pain and induce sleep | | 34 |
| 6029484398 | Muse | some creature of inspiration ; the daughters of
Mnemosyne and Zeus, divine singers that presided over
thought in all its forms | | 35 |
| 6029486074 | Narcissism | being in love with our own self-image | | 36 |
| 6029486075 | Nemesis | just punishment, one who inflicts due
punishment; goddess who punishes crime; but more
often she is the power charged with curbing all excess,
such as excessive good fortune or arrogant pride | | 37 |
| 6029486076 | Neptune | the sea personified; the Roman god
associated with Poseidon, god of the water and oceans | | 38 |
| 6029486077 | Niobe | mournful woman | | 39 |
| 6029487693 | Odyssey | a long journey | | 40 |
| 6029487694 | Olympian | majestic in manner, superior to mundane
affairs | | 41 |
| 6029487695 | Paean | a song of joy; a ritual epithet of Apollo the
healer | | 42 |
| 6029487696 | Pandora's Box | Something that opens the door for bad
occurrences, opened by someone known for curiosity | | 43 |
| 6029490110 | 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 | | 44 |
| 6029490111 | 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 the
Muses, to issue poetic inspiration from Mount Helicon | | 45 |
| 6029491681 | Phoenix | a symbol of immortality or rebirth | | 46 |
| 6029491682 | Plutocracy | a government by the wealthy | | 47 |
| 6029491683 | Promethean | life-bringing, creative, or courageously
original; named after a Titan who brought man the use of
fire which he had stolen from heaven for their benefit | | 48 |
| 6029491684 | Protean | taking many forms, versatile | | 49 |
| 6029493362 | Psyche | the human soul, self, the mind | | 50 |
| 6029614630 | Pygmalion | someone (usually a male) who tries to
fashion someone into the person he desires; from a myth
adapted into a play by George Bernard Shaw; a womanhating
sculptor who makes a female figure of ivory who
Aphrodite brings to life for him | | 51 |
| 6029791523 | Pyrrhic victory | a too costly victory | | 52 |
| 6029791524 | Saturnalia | a period of unrestrained revelry | | 53 |
| 6029791525 | Saturnine | sluggish, gloomy, morose, inactive in
winter months | | 54 |
| 6029791526 | Sibyl | a witch or sorceress; a priestess who made
known the oracles of Apollo and possessed the gift of
prophecy | | 55 |
| 6029792816 | Sisyphean | greedy and avaricious | | 56 |
| 6029792817 | Stentorian | having a loud voice | | 57 |
| 6029792818 | Stygain | dark and gloomy | | 58 |
| 6029792819 | Tantalize | always tempting him as punishment
for excessive pride | | 59 |
| 6029796338 | Terpischorean | pertaining to dance | | 60 |
| 6029796339 | Titanic | large, grand, enormous | | 61 |
| 6029797794 | Volcanoes | the Roman god of
fire, whose forge is said to be under mountains | | 62 |
| 6029799587 | Vulcanize | to treat rubber with sulfur to increase
strength and elasticity | | 63 |
| 6029799588 | Zeus | a powerful man; king of the gods, ruler of Mt.
Olympus, vengeful hurler of thunderbolts | | 64 |
| 6029799589 | 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 | | 65 |
| 6029801112 | Brobdingnagian | gigantic, enormous, on a large scale,
enlarged | | 66 |
| 6029801113 | Bumble | to speak or behave clumsily or faltering, to
make a humming or droning sound | | 67 |
| 6029801128 | Cinderella | one who gains affluence or recognition
after obscurity and neglect, a person or thing whose
beauty or worth remains unrecognized; after the fairytale
heroine who escapes form a life of drudgery through
the intervention of a fairy godmother and marries a
handsome prince | | 68 |
| 6029803640 | Don Juan | a libertine, profligate, a man obsessed with
seducing women | | 69 |
| 6029803641 | 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 | | 70 |
| 6029803642 | Panglossian | blindly or misleadingly optimistic | | 71 |
| 6029805512 | Falstaffian | full of wit and bawdy humor | | 72 |
| 6029806944 | 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 | | 73 |
| 6029806945 | Friday | A faithful and willing attendant, ready to turn
his hand to anything | | 74 |
| 6029806946 | Galahad | A pure and noble man with limited ambition;
in the legends of King Arthur, the purest and most
virtuous knight of the Round Table, the only knight to
find the Holy Grail | | 75 |
| 6029808544 | Jekyll and Hyde | A capricious person with two sides
to his/her personality | | 76 |
| 6029808545 | Lilliputian | descriptive of a very small person or of
something diminutive, trivial or petty | | 77 |
| 6029808546 | 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 by Frances H.
Burnett, the main character, seven-year-old Cedric Errol,
was a striking figure, dressed in black velvet with a lace
collar and yellow curls | | 78 |
| 6029810279 | 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 | | 79 |
| 6029810280 | 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 | | 80 |
| 6029811926 | Milquetoast | a timid, weak, or unassertive person | | 81 |
| 6029811927 | Pickwickian | humorous, sometimes derogatory | | 82 |
| 6029811928 | Pollyanna | a person characterized by impermissible
optimism and a tendency to find good in everything, a
foolishly or blindly optimistic person | | 83 |
| 6029814026 | Pooh-bah | a pompous, ostentatious official, especially
one who, holding many offices, fulfills none of them, a
person who holds high office | | 84 |
| 6029814027 | Quixotic | having foolish and impractical ideas of
honor, or schemes for the general good | | 85 |
| 6029815670 | 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 | | 86 |
| 6029815671 | Rodomontade | bluster and boasting | | 87 |
| 6029817350 | 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 | | 88 |
| 6029817351 | Simon Legree | a harsh, cruel, or demanding person in
authority, such as an employer or officer that acts in this
manner | | 89 |
| 6029817352 | 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 | | 90 |
| 6029817353 | Tartuffe | hypocrite or someone who is hypocritical;
central character in a comedy by Moliere produced in
1667; Moliere was famous for his hypocritical piety | | 91 |
| 6029819413 | Uncle Tom | someone thought to have the timid service
attitude like that of a slave to his owner | | 92 |
| 6029819414 | Uriah Hee | a fawning toadie, an obsequious person;
from a character in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield | | 93 |
| 6029819415 | 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 | | 94 |
| 6029821235 | 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 | | 95 |
| 6029822752 | Absolom | a son who brings heartache to his father;
from the third son of David, King of Israel. Exiled for
three years before he was allowed to return to the court
or see his royal father | | 96 |
| 6029822753 | Alpha and Omega | The beginning and the end, from a
quote in Revelations in the New Testament | | 97 |
| 6029824217 | Cain | a brother who kills a brother | | 98 |
| 6029824218 | Daniel | one known for wisdom and accurate judgment;
from a wise leader in the Old Testament who was able to
read the handwriting on the wall | | 99 |
| 6029824219 | David and Bethsheba | represents a big sin | | 100 |
| 6029826474 | Eye of the Needle | A very difficult task | | 101 |
| 6029826475 | Filthy Lucre | Money or profits; from a story in the NT
of Jesus casting moneylenders out of the Temple | | 102 |
| 6029826476 | Goliath | a large person; from the giant from the
Philistine city of Gath, slain by David, when he was a
shepherd boy | | 103 |
| 6029828703 | Good Samaritan | someone who helps another person,
perhaps someone of a different race or background | | 104 |
| 6029830287 | Handwriting on the wall | what the future holds | | 105 |
| 6029831808 | Ishmael | one who is cast out as being unworthy; the
son of Abraham and his handmaiden Hagar, he was cast
out into the desert when his wife Sarah had their son
Isaac; therefore said to be the ancestor of the nomadic
desert tribes of Arabs | | 106 |
| 6029831809 | Jacob | grandson of Abraham, son of Isaac and
Rebekah, brother of Esau, and the traditional ancestor of
Israelites | | 107 |
| 6029831810 | Job | who suffers a great deal but remains faithful;
from an OT character whose faith in God was tested by
Satan; though he lost his family and belongings, he
remained patient and faithful | | 108 |
| 6029831811 | Job's comforters | "friends" who try to help by
bringing blame | | 109 |
| 6029833164 | Jonah | one who brings bad luck | | 110 |
| 6029833165 | Judas | a traitor or a treacherous kiss | | 111 |
| 6029833166 | King Ahab and Jezabel | an evil king of Israel and his
treacherous evil wife, synonymous today with evil | | 112 |
| 6029833167 | Manna | a sustaining life-giving source or food | | 113 |
| 6029834862 | Original Sin/The Fall | the idea that all men are
innately sinful as a result of Adam and Eve's fall from
the state of innocence | | 114 |
| 6029837398 | Pearl of Great Price | something so precious that one
would devote everything to or give up everything for it | | 115 |
| 6029837399 | Phillistine | a person indifferent or hostile to the arts and
refinement; from Sea-going people from Crete who
became enemies of the Israelites and fought over their
lands | | 116 |
| 6029837400 | Prodigal Son | a wasteful son who disappoints his
father; from the NT parable of a man with two sons.
When he split his estate between the two, the younger
son gathered his fortune and left home to live the wild
life, while the older son stayed home to work in the
fields. When the younger son spent all of the money, he
came crawling back to his father, who accepted him,
pardoning his error by saying he was "lost but was
found | | 117 |
| 6029838933 | Ruth and Naomi | paragons of love between in-laws;
faithful friends | | 118 |
| 6029838934 | Samson and Delilah | Treacherous love story | | 119 |
| 6029838935 | Scapegoat | one that is made an object of blame for
others | | 120 |
| 6029838936 | Sepulcher | tomb in the OT | | 121 |
| 6029840801 | Sodom and Gomorrah | any place associated with
wickedness or sin | | 122 |
| 6029840802 | Solomon | an extremely wise person; from the son of
King David, the Israelite king who wrote Proverbs, and
was known for wisdom | | 123 |
| 6029840803 | Twelve Tribes of Israel | according to the Old
Testament, the Hebrew people took possession of the
Promised Land of Canaan after the death of Moses and
named the tribes after the sons and grandson of Jacob | | 124 |
| 6029843824 | Attila | barbarian, rough leader; King of the Huns from
433-453 and the most successful of the barbarian
invaders of the Roman Empire | | 125 |
| 6029843825 | Berserk | destructively or frenetically violent, mental or
emotional upset; a warrior clothed in bear skin who
worked himself into a frenzy before battle | | 126 |
| 6029843826 | Bloomer | undergarments for dance or active wear;
underwear formally worn by females that was composed
of loose trousers gathered at the ankles | | 127 |
| 6029843827 | Bowdlerize | to censor, expurgate prudishly, to modify,
as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing content | | 128 |
| 6029843828 | 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 | | 129 |
| 6029845461 | Canopy | an overhanging protection or shelter, to cover
or hover above | | 130 |
| 6029845462 | Casanova | a man who is amorously and gallantly
attentive to women; a promiscuous man | | 131 |
| 6029845463 | Chauvinist | one who has a militant devotion to and
glorification of one's country, fanatical patriotism,
prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's own gender,
group, or kind | | 132 |
| 6029848049 | 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
hole, esp. an oil well, used to support boring equipment | | 133 |
| 6029848050 | Donnybrook | any riotous occasion | | 134 |
| 6029848051 | Dungaree | a style of casual work pants | | 135 |
| 6029850718 | El Dorado | a place of reputed wealth; from the
legendary city in South America, sought by early
Spanish explorers | | 136 |
| 6029850719 | 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 for hire | | 137 |
| 6029850720 | Horatio Alger | one who believes that a person can
make it on his own merits; from (1832-99) American
writer of inspirational adventure books | | 138 |
| 6029852490 | Laconic | using or marked by the use of few words,
brief | | 139 |
| 6029852491 | Limerick | a humorous or nonsense verse of five lines | | 140 |
| 6029852492 | Machiavellian | characterized by expedience, deceit
and cunning | | 141 |
| 6029852493 | Marathon | a long distance race; source of the Victory
of the Greeks over Persians in 490 B.C. | | 142 |
| 6029855243 | 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 | | 143 |
| 6029855244 | Meander | to wander aimlessly | | 144 |
| 6029855279 | Mesmerize | to induce the state of being hypnotized | | 145 |
| 6029857439 | Nostradamus | fortune teller | | 146 |
| 6029857440 | Sardonic | bitterly ironical, sarcastic, sneering | | 147 |
| 6029857441 | Shanghai | to cheat or steal, to make drugs, liquor, etc..
to bring or get by trickery or force | | 148 |
| 6029857442 | Spartan | frugal and bare, simple, disciplined and stern
and brave | | 149 |
| 6029857443 | Swiftian | satirical | | 150 |
| 6029859189 | Sybaritic | luxurious, voluptuous, a person who cares
very much for luxury and pleasure | | 151 |
| 6029859190 | Thespian | having to do with the theater or acting | | 152 |
| 6029859191 | Uncle Sam | government of people of the United States | | 153 |
| 6029859268 | Utopia | an imaginary and perfect society | | 154 |
| 6029860910 | Wagnerian | style of music: loud, dramatic, radical | | 155 |
| 6029860911 | Waterloo | A decisive or final defeat or setback; Belgian
1816, source of Napoleon's last defeat | | 156 |
| 6030285555 | Stonewall | hinder or obstruct by evasive, delaying
tactics | | 157 |
