Unti 3 Lesson 26

Question 0

Argonaut

Answer 0

Adventurer; one who sailed with Jason on the Argo in search of the Golden Fleece

Question 1

Antaean

Answer 1

Possessed of superhuman strength with suggestions of earthiness

Question 2

Calliope

Answer 2

A musical instrument fitted with steam whistles, played from a keyboard and usually heard at carnivals and circuses

Question 3

Cyclopean

Answer 3

Vast, massive and rough; suggestive of the cyclops, the race of one-eyed giants, descended from the Titans

Question 4

Gorgon

Answer 4

A repulsively ugly or terrifying woman

Question 5

Harpy

Answer 5

A shrewish woman; a predatory person

Question 6

Homeric

Answer 6

Suggestive of Homer or his poetry; of heroic dimensions; grand; imposing

Question 7

Myrmidon

Answer 7

A faithful follower who carries out orders without question

Question 8

Oracular

Answer 8

Uttered or delivered as if divinely inspired or infallible; ambiguous or obscure; portentous; ominous

Question 9

Paean

Answer 9

Any song of praise, joy or triumph

Question 10

Plutonian

Answer 10

Pertaining to the planet Pluto or the underworld; grim and gloomy; harsh and unpleasing

Question 11

Promethean

Answer 11

Creative and boldly original

Question 12

Stygian

Answer 12

Gloomy and dark; hellish; infernal; inviolable (safe from profanation)

Question 13

Terpsichorean

Answer 13

Pertaining to dancing

Question 14

Thespian

Answer 14

Dramatic (adj.); an actor or actress (noun)