English Quiz

Odyssey

a long, adventurous journey

Ambrosial

exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; extremely delicious; excellent

Draconian

extremely harsh and severe

Herculean

tremendous in size, strength, difficulty, or effort

Mercurial

quick, shrewd, and unpredictable, rapid change in mood

tantalize

To tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach

chimera

A thing that is hoped or wished but is in fact illusionary or impossible to achieve.

Hector

to talk to in a bullying way

labyrinth

A complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way; a maze.

stygian

dark and forbidding

Dionysian

being of a frenzied, spontaneous, undisciplined, or emotional character

Apollonian

harmonious, measured, ordered, or balanced in character

nemesis

A long standing rival; an archenemy

martial

Of or appropriate to war; warlike

halcyon

Denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful

saturnine

Like the planet Saturn — gloomy, mean, scowling

flora

a treatise on or list of the plant life of a particular region or period

Harpy

a rapacious monster described as having a woman's head and body and a bird's wings and claws or depicted as a bird of prey with a woman's face; a predatory woman

Gorgon

a very ugly or terrible person, especially a repulsive woman.; Medusa, any one or three sisters have snakes for hair and faces so horrible that anyone who looked at them turned to stone

Sirens

birds with the heads of women, whose songs were so beautiful that none could resist

Delphic

deliberately obscure or ambiguous

Adonis

very handsome young man

Sisyphean

Requiring endless effort; without result or success

Achilles heel

weak point

titanic

of exceptional strength, size, or power

protean

Tending or being able to change frequently or easily

mentor

an experienced and trusted adviser.

Jovial

cheerful and friendly

narcissism

Inordinate fascination with oneself.

Promethean

Willingness to take risks in order to create new things or do things in new ways.

cupidity

greed for money or possessions

lethargy

a lack of energy and enthusiasm