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102 Cards in this Set
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exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell
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Ambrosial
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to destroy completely
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Annihilate
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jovial with or wild with drunkenness
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Bacchanalian
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a fortified place
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Bastion
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fantastic, unreal, impossible
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Chimerical
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quarrelsome, argumentative
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Contentious
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worldly, sophisticated
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Cosmopolitan
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covered, sheltered, concealed
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Covert
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particles of rock or other material broken away from a large mass
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Detritus
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harsh or cruel
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Draconian
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an overflow of enthusiasm, fervor, or excitement
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Ebullience
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a string or chain of flowers
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Festoon
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sly, shifty, taken or done my stealth
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Furtive
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to bully
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Hector
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obstacle
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Hindrance
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moralizing lecture
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Homily
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crafty, tricky, treacherous
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Insidious
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to lead by trickery
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Inveigle
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angry, wrathful
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Irate
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using words sparingly
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Laconic
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sluggish, unnaturally drows
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Lethargic
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lazy person
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Lotus-eater
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clear
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Lucid
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bright, brilliant
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Luminous
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warlike
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Martial
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biting, sarcastic, cutting
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Mordant
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loyal subjects or followers
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Myrmidon
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too eager to lend aid
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Officious
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a song or hymn
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Paean
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to persist in the face of difficulty
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Persevere
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belonging to earliest times or ages
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Primeval
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exceedingly variable
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Protean
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ruinous, gained at too great a cost
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Pyrrhic
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to echo or reflect
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Reverberate
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beautiful temptress
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Siren
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wise lawgiver
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Solon
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apparently good but lacking real merit
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Specious
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very loud
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Stentorian
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a loud, harsh grating
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Strident
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infernal, dark, gloomy
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Stygian
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female prophet
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Sybil
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balance
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Symmetry
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silent, saying nothing
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Tacit
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pertaining to drama or acting
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Thespian
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change or variation
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Vicissitude
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to clear from suspicion
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Vindicate
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not practical, dreamy
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Visionary
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ravenousness
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Voracity
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Greek, greatest warrior
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Achilles
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Trojan, warrior who died
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Aeneas
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Greek, Commander-in-chief, warrior/ head of the chieftains
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Agamennon
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cursed Greek
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Ajax(lesser)
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king of phaeacians
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Alcinoos
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I was the female hurt in the war
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Aphrodite
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Trojans, helped take helen got golden apple
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Aphrodite
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Trojans, cared for Hector.
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Apollo & Artemis
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Trojans, god of war favored troy
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Ares
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Trojan, hector son
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Astyanax
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I tricked Hector and pretended to be his brother it was very sneaky
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Athena
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Greek, prophet
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Calchas
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goddess who held odysseus prisioner
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Calypso
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Greek, warriors
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Chieftians
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I was sacrificed for good winds
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Chryseis
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a witch
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Circe
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Trojan, 2nd greatest warrior
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Deiphobus
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pig tender
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Eumaeus
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serant
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Eurycleia
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Trojan, prince of troy/great warrior
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Hector
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wife of Menelaus
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Helen
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Greek, mad at paris, hate Aphrodite
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Hera & Athena
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Greek, king of Sparta
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Menelaus
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trusted friend
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Mentor
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daughter of atcinous
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Nauscicaa
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Greek, oldest, wisest chieftian, king of pulos
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Nestor
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Greek, King of Ithaca
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Odysseus
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Greek, 2nd greatest warriors
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Odysseus & Diomedes
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Trojan, shot arrows
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Pandarus
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Trojan, prince of troy, troy hated him
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Paris
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Greek, Achilles close friend
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Patroclus
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wife of odysseus
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Penelope
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kind people
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Phaeacians
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Greek, favored sailors
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Posiden
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Trojan, king of troy
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Priam
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Greek, friend of achilles
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Protesilaus
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Island
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Pylos
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odysseus' son.
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Telemachus
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mother of Achilles
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Thetis
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A love story in which he lost his love and his head.
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orpheus & eurydice
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she was utterly amazed by this bound titan
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prometheus & Io
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she rested on her laurels after a god pursued her.
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daphne & Apollo
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zeus was bull-ish in this one
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europa
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this young man fell minos his wings
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daedalus & icarus
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he was typical often absent husband but she loved him with all her soul
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cupid & psyche
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they used feathers to calm one another
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ceyx & alcyone
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she was very stiff to them until they kissed
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pygmalion & galeta
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wild mulberries and lions couldn't keep these two apart
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pyramus & thisbe
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two old loves share a trunk in death
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baucis & philemon
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he was loved by two goddesses but board to death
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adonis
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she always got the last word with this guy but he was a poor reflection of love
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narcissus & echo
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he answers the burning queston about his dad
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phaethon
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this one is the reason for the seasons
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demeter & persephone
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he was to likeable a guest to kill
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pegasus
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