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Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |