Words Derived from Mythology

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  1. 3. one of a nation of women
  2. 5. of Scythia (who burned off the right
  3. 8. Volatile, always changing moods
  4. 9. a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders;
  5. 11. fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail;
  6. 13. a priestess of Apollo in Greek mythology cursed to utter true prophecies, but never to be believed
  7. 14. a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body
  8. 15. a Greek epic poem
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  1. 1. a complicated network of winding passages; a maze (Theseus and the Minotaur)
  2. 2. an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus
  3. 4. in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively)
  4. 6. Goddess of the rainbow;
  5. 7. of enormous size, strength, power, or scope;
  6. 10. a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived
  7. 12. to put into a sleep-like state;