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Word Wealth 1.10
MR.RESSE
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aegis | protection, sponsorship |
| aegis | the shield borne by Zeus, and later by his daughter Athene |
| Aeolus | god of the winds |
| Aeolian harp | a musical instrument operated by air |
| aeonian | lasting forever |
| Aeneas | the legendary Trojan who founded Rome |
| aesthetic | sensitive to beauty |
| amazon | a large strong or athletic woman, a female warrior |
| Amazons | a race of female warriors believed to live near the Black Sea |
| aurora | the dawn or similar luminosity |
| aureate | golden or brilliant |
| aurum | gold |
| aureole | a halo of golden radiance encircling a body |
| auric/aureous | containing gold |
| odyssey | extended journey or wandering |
| paean | song of thanksgiving, joy, praise, triumph |
| paian | an epithet of Apollo |
| palladium | safeguard, something to insure safety |
| Pallas Athene | the Greek goddess of war and protectress of Athens |
| plutocrat | a wealthy person; their wealth means power |
| siren | a bewitching or irresistible woman; fascinating, captivating |
| Valhalla | hall of feasting heroes |
| Paradiso | a place of purer delights |
| ambrosial | fragrant, delicious, superior |
| Apollonian | godlike, living by enlightened, aesthetic intellectual values; harmonious, spiritual |
| Apollo | the Greek god of the arts, prophecy, and medicine; model of youthful manhood and beauty |
| Dionysian | living for sensual and material delights |
| Dionysus | Greek god of wine and revelry |
| bacchanal | merely a drunken carouser |
| hermetic | completely sealed, airtight, hard to understand, relating to the occult or the magical |
| Hermes | the swift messenger of the gods |
| Hermes Trismegistus | legendary author, his magical and obscure doctrines |
| procrustean | taking fanatical or ruthless action to attain conformity |
| Procrustes | a mythical giant in Greece who took in travelers at night and then stretched them, or cut off enough of their legs, to make them fit his bed exactly |
| Promethean | daring, creative or heroic on behalf of humanity |
| Prometheus | a Titan who stole fire from the gods to benefit humanity |
| Pyrrhic victory | a too |
| Pyrrhus | an ancient Greek king famous for military successes gained at too great a cost in lives and treasure |
| stygian | dark, gloomy, hellish |
| River Styx | encircled Hades, and Charon, the ferry operator, carried the souls of the dead over the water for a small fee |
| tantalizing | teasing, tormenting |
| King Tantalus | son of Zeus, tormented in Hades by having to stand in water and under the branches of a fruit tree, only to have the water and fruit elude his grasp when he wished to drink or eat |
| terpsichorean | pertaining to dancing |
| Terpsichore | delighting in the dance |
| titanic | extremely large, strong; or powerful |
| Titanium | the metallic element now almost indispensable in the manufacture of aircraft |
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