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

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Chaos

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State of utter confusion

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Promethean

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Boldly creative, original

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Vulcanization

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Treat with sulfur or heat

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Aphrodisiac

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Arousing sexual desire

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Hypnotic

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Pertaining to hypnosis

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Zephyr

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Gentle mid breeze

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Caught between the Scylla and the Charybdis

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Caught between a rock and a hard place

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Olympian

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God’s of classical Greece

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Midas touch

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Ability to make business profitable

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Hubris

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Excessive pride

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Anthropomorphism

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Special representation