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Aegis

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Shield or protection

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Adonis

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Very handsome young man

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Amazon

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Tall strong bold women

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Ambrosial

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Exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell

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Atlas

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Book of maps

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Auroral

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Pertaining to or resembling the dawn

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Bacchanalian

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Jovial or wild with drunkenness

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Cassandra

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One who prophesies doom or disaster

Pessimist

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Chimerical

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Unreal or absurd

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Draconian

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Cruel harsh severe iron handed

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Echolalia

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Automatic and immediate repetition of what others say

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Elysian

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Delightful blissful heavenly

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Eristic

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Prone to controversy

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Fauna

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Animal life

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Flora

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Plant life

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Forum

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Medium for open discussion

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Hector

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Bully intimidate with threats

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Herculean

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Very difficult requiring strength

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Hermetic

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Airtight secret obscure magical mysterious

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Iridescent

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Having colors like the rainbow

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Jovial

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Jolly merry good humored

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Labyrinthine

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Full of confusing passageways. Complicated

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Laconic

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Using words sparingly

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Lethargic

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Unnaturally drowsy. Sleepy

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Lucullan

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Luxurious

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Marathon

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26 mile race or endurance contest

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Martial

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Pertaining to war

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Mentor

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Wise and trusted advisor. Tutor

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Mercurial

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Quick

Inconstant unstable

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Myrmidon

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Obedient and unquestioning follower

Minion

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Narcissistic

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In love with oneself

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Nectar

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Something especially delicious to drink

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Nemesis

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Due punishment for evil deeds or one who inflicts such punishment

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Odyssey

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Long series or wanderings or travels

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Olympian

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Majestic, godlike

Having to do with the Olympic Games

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Paean

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Song or hymn of praise

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Palladium

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Safeguard protection

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Panic

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Sudden overpowering terror

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Philippic

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Bitter denunciation tirade

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Plutocratic

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Having great influence because of ones wealth

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Procrustean

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Cruel or inflexible in enforcing conformity

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Protean

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Exceedingly variable

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Pyrrhic

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Ruinous. Gained at too great a cost

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Saturnine

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Heavy dull morose

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Siren

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Dangerous attractive women
Women who sings with bewitching sweetness
Loud sound

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Solon

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Legislator wise lawgiver

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Spartan

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Simplicity bravery endurance of pain

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Stentorian

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Very loud

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Stygian

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Infernal dark gloomy

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Tantalize

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Excite a hope but prevent its fulfillment

Tease

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Terpsichorean

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Pertaining to dancing

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Thespian

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Pertaining to drama or acting

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Titanic

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Of enormous strength size or power

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