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Mnemonic

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God of Dreams, Refers to Memory

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Achilles’ Heel

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Deadly weakness despite overall strength

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Chimerical

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Existing only in one’s imagination

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Titanic

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Large

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Bacchanal

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A wild drunken party

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Siren

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A half-woman who lures ships into rocks with her songs. A sound that goes off when something happens.

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Adonis

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God of beauty and desire

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Herculean

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Requiring great strength and power

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Tantalize

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Torment or tease

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Labyrinthine

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Irregular and twisting

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Lethargic

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Sluggish

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Martial

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Warlike

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Cupidity

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greed for money or possessions

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Odyssey

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A long wondering and eventful journey

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Protean

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able to change quickly

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Narcissism

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Excessive interest in one’s appearance

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Amazon

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A member of a legendary race of female warriors

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Nemesis

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the agent of someone’s downfall

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Panacea

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A solution for all difficulties or deaseases

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Aegis

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Athena’s breastplate

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Saturine

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slow and gloomy

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Mentor

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a good advisor

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Mercurial

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Changing mood quickly and often

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Procrustean

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enforcing uniformity or conformity without regard to features

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Chaos

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Complete disorder and confusion

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Promethean

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sent to tartarus for his behavior

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Hades

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king of the underworld

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Vulcanization

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Treatment of a robber to harden it

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Aphrodisiac

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a substance that increases sexual desire

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Hypnotic

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drugs to induce sleep

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Zephyr

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a light west wind

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Caught between Scylla and Charybdis

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A rock and a hard place

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Olympian

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the 12 greek gods who lived in Mt olympus

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Midas touch

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the ability to keep manage and make huge amounts of money

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Hubris

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over excessive pride

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Anthropomorphism

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Acting human in a non-human

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