| A | B |
|---|
| Achilles' heel | a single, vulnerable spot |
| Adonis | an extremely handsome young man |
| aegis | sponsorship or protection |
| amazon | a powerful, masculine woman |
| atlas | a collection of maps |
| Cassandra | one who warns of coming evil but is ignored |
| chimera | a foolish or idle fancy; fantastic hybrid |
| Elysium | place or state of blissful happiness |
| Gorgon | a snaky-haired creature so ugly as to petrify an onlooker |
| halcyon | calm; peaceful |
| herculean | very powerful |
| hydra | a persistent evil, one difficult to eradicate |
| labyrinth | a complicated arrangement of passageways; a maze |
| mentor | a wise counsellor |
| Midas | a very rich man |
| narcissism | abnormal attachment to one's own appearance and personality |
| nemesis | retribution; one who inflicts retribution |
| odyssey | a series of long wanderings |
| Oedipus (complex) | an abnormal attachment to one's opposite sex parent with hostility to the other |
| Olympian | exalted; majestic |
| paean | a song of thanksgiving or praise |
| Procrustean, procrustean | forcing rigid conformity |
| protean | extremely changeable |
| siren | an alluring but dangerous woman; seductive |
| stentorian | very loud |
| Stygian | dark, gloomy |
| tantalize | tease |
| titanic | of enormous size and power |
| aeolian | caused by wind; like the sighing of the wind |
