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Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Aphrodisiac | food or drugs that allegedly make men and women feel more amorous |
Chthonic | describing something related to forces from the underworld |
Hector | to bully or to try to force someone to do something |
Hermetic | sealed off, or also sealing off knowledge |
Junoesque | a women who is usually tall and stately and so beautiful as to seem divine |
penurious | poverty-stricken or distribute |
Eleemosynary | contributing charity or independence on charity |
Frugal | someone who is thrifty |
Munificent | very generous in giving |
Avaricious | greedy or desiring of games |
Mercurial | describes someone who moods change very rapidly |
Mnemonic | refers to or relation to memory in general |
Muse, Bemuse | a traditional female figure of artistic inspiration , to loose yourself in your thoughts |
Mean | miserly and stingy |
Indulgent | lenient or willing to gratify |
Odyssey | Long Journey or a journey of the intellect or spirit |
Saturnine | gloomy or bitterly sarcastic |
Magnanimous | extremely generous and forgiving |
Parsimonious | someone who is excessively stingy |
Prodigal | extremely wasteful |