| Term | Definition |
|---|
| ape | attempting an overly exact imitation and ending up with negative or laughable results |
| dun | to insist on the payment of a debt |
| fop | a man who is too concerned with his looks and his clothes |
| gad | to move abouts, travel usually in a kind of aimless way |
| hex | to put an evil spell on someone |
| ken | understanding, the limits of your knowledge |
| pox | bad luck |
| sow | to plant a seed |
| vex | to annoy or perplex |
| vie | compete contend |
| amalgamation | to mix or combine into a unified whole |
| admixture | mixture |
| eclectic | made up from a variety of sources |
| catholic | comprehensive, of broad scope |
| motley | composed of a variety of sources |
| corroborate | to bring in new evidence to strengthen or support an idea or argument |
| asunder | into separate pieces |
| diaspora | dispersion of people from their homeland |
| cleave | to split, to be faithful to |
| disseminate | to scatter widely |
| aphrodisiac | food or drugs that allegedly make people feel more amorous |
| chthonic | something related to forces from the underworld |
| hector | to bully or to try to force someone to do something |
| hermetic | sealed off |
| junoesque | a woman who is unusually tall and stately and so beautiful as to seem divine |
| mercurial | volatile; flying |
| mnemonic | memory or relating to memory |
| muse, bemuse | to lose yourself in your thoughts |
| odyssey | journey |
| saturnine | gloomy or bitterly sarcastic and mocking |
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