All Vocabulary From Lessons 1-40

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cyclopean

Back 1

vast, massive, rough; suggest of the cyclops, the race of one-eyed giants, descended from the Titans

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thespian

Back 2

dramatic; actor or actress

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terpsichorean

Back 3

pertaining to dance

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stygian

Back 4

dark and gloomy; hellish; infernal; inviolabe (same from profanation)

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paen

Back 5

any song of praise, joy, or triumph

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Promethean

Back 6

creative and boldy original

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plutonian

Back 7

pertaining to the planet Pluto or the underworld; grim and gloomy; harsh and unpleasing

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myrmidon

Back 8

a faithful follower who carries out orders without question

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oracular

Back 9

uttered or delivered as if divinely inspired or infallible; ambiguous or obsucre; portentous; ominous

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Homeric

Back 10

suggestive of Homer or his poetry; of heroic dimensions; grand; imposing

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harpy

Back 11

a shrewish woman; a predatory person

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gorgon

Back 12

a repulsively ugly or terrifying woman

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calliope

Back 13

a musical instrument fitted with steam whistles, played from a keyboard, and usually heard at ciruses and carnivals

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argonaut

Back 14

traveler; one who sailed with Jason on the Argo in search of the Golden Fleece

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antean

Back 15

possessed of superhuman strength with suggestions of earthiness

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cartography

Back 16

art or business of drawing or making charts or maps

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wayfarer

Back 17

a person who travels, especially from place to place on foot

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landmark

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any fixed object used to mark the boundary of a piece of land; any prominent feature of the landscape, serving to identify a particular locality; turning point in history

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concierge

Back 19

doorkeeper; caretaker; custodian; janitor

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hustings

Back 20

the route follwed by a campaigner for political office; an election platform; the proceedinngs at an election

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portmanteau

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a case or bag to carry clothing while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves

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peripatetic

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moving from palce to place; itinerant; one of the followers of Aristotle, whowalked about the lyceum while he was teaching

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safari

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a journey or hunting expedition, especially in East Africa; the caravan of such an expedidtion; a long, carefully planned trip, usually with a large entourage

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tandem

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a two-wheeled carriage drawn by horses harnessed one behind the other; a bicycle with 2 seats and sets of pedals placed one behind the other; a relationship b/t two persons or things involving cooperative action

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trek

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to travel by ox wagon; to travel slowly or laboriously

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wanderlust

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an impulse, longing, or urge to wander

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antipodal

Back 27

on the opposite side of the globe; diametrically opposite

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traverse

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to pass, move, or exten over or across; oppose; to survey or inspect carefully; to swivel or pivot; to move across a mountain slope in an oblique directiong; zig-zagging

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hegira

Back 29

any flight or journey to a more desirable or congenial place than where one is

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transmigrate

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to move from one habitation or country to another; in religion, to pass into some other body at death (of the soul)