Vocab Flashcards
Aegis
Shield or protection
Adonis
Very handsome young man
Amazon
Tall strong bold women
Ambrosial
Exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell
Atlas
Book of maps
Auroral
Pertaining to or resembling the dawn
Bacchanalian
Jovial or wild with drunkenness
Cassandra
One who prophesies doom or disaster
Pessimist
Chimerical
Unreal or absurd
Draconian
Cruel harsh severe iron handed
Echolalia
Automatic and immediate repetition of what others say
Elysian
Delightful blissful heavenly
Eristic
Prone to controversy
Fauna
Animal life
Flora
Plant life
Forum
Medium for open discussion
Hector
Bully intimidate with threats
Herculean
Very difficult requiring strength
Hermetic
Airtight secret obscure magical mysterious
Iridescent
Having colors like the rainbow
Jovial
Jolly merry good humored
Labyrinthine
Full of confusing passageways. Complicated
Laconic
Using words sparingly
Lethargic
Unnaturally drowsy. Sleepy
Lucullan
Luxurious
Marathon
26 mile race or endurance contest
Martial
Pertaining to war
Mentor
Wise and trusted advisor. Tutor
Mercurial
Quick
Inconstant unstable
Myrmidon
Obedient and unquestioning follower
Minion
Narcissistic
In love with oneself
Nectar
Something especially delicious to drink
Nemesis
Due punishment for evil deeds or one who inflicts such punishment
Odyssey
Long series or wanderings or travels
Olympian
Majestic, godlike
Having to do with the Olympic Games
Paean
Song or hymn of praise
Palladium
Safeguard protection
Panic
Sudden overpowering terror
Philippic
Bitter denunciation tirade
Plutocratic
Having great influence because of ones wealth
Procrustean
Cruel or inflexible in enforcing conformity
Protean
Exceedingly variable
Pyrrhic
Ruinous. Gained at too great a cost
Saturnine
Heavy dull morose
Siren
Dangerous attractive women
Women who sings with bewitching sweetness
Loud sound
Solon
Legislator wise lawgiver
Spartan
Simplicity bravery endurance of pain
Stentorian
Very loud
Stygian
Infernal dark gloomy
Tantalize
Excite a hope but prevent its fulfillment
Tease
Terpsichorean
Pertaining to dancing
Thespian
Pertaining to drama or acting
Titanic
Of enormous strength size or power