Vocab Flashcards by Josh Daids

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Mnomenic

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Relating to memory (loss)

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Achilles heel

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Spot is especially vulnerable

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Chimerical

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The product of unchecked imagination

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Titanic

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Great in size, force, power

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Bacchanal

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Orgy

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Siren

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Women who attract men (half woman, half bird)

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Adonis

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Youth loved by Aphrodite who is killed while hunting

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Herculean

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Of extraordinary power, and wit

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Tantalize

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to tease

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Labyrinthine

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Complicated maze

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Lethargic (from the river Lethe)

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Sluggish

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Martial

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War like

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Cupidity

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Greed for money or possessions

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Odyssey

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One of two major Ancient Greek poems attributed to Homer

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Protean (god that could change into any form)

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Extreme variable

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Narcissim

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Excessive self love

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Amazon

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Large strong, aggressive woman

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Nemesis

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Agent of revenge

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Panacea

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Remedy for all diseases

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Aegis

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Athena’s breastplate

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Saturnine

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Sluggish in temperament

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Mentor

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Wise counselor

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Mercurial

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Changeable

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Procrustean (from the bandit Procrustes)

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The bandit

Chaos

State of utter confusion

Promethean

Boldly creative, original

Vulcanization

Treat with sulfur or heat

Aphrodisiac

Arousing sexual desire

Hypnotic

Pertaining to hypnosis

Zephyr

Gentle mid breeze

Caught between the Scylla and the Charybdis

Caught between a rock and a hard place

Olympian

God's of classical Greece

Midas touch

Ability to make business profitable

Hubris

Excessive pride

Anthropomorphism

Special representation