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auroral: adj. pertaining to or resembling the dawn; rosy (From Aurora, goddess of dawn)
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eristic: adj. prone to controversy; disputatious; argumentative (from Eris, the goddess of discord)
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martial: adj. warlike; pertaining to war (From Mars, god of war)
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mercurial: adj. quick, vivacious, active, lively (from Mercury, the Roman counterpart of Hermes) inconstant; unstable; subject to rapid and unpredictable mood changes; capricious
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palladium: n. safeguard or protection (from statue of Pallas Athena, thought to protect the city of Troy)
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philippic: n. bitter denunciation; tirade; fiery speech (from the Philippics, orations by Demosthenes denouncing King Philip of Macedonia and warning the Greeks of his plan to conquer them)
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procrustean: adj. cruel or inflexible with enforcing conformity (from Procrustes, a robber who made his victims fit the length of his bed, either streching them if they were too short or cutting off their legs if they were too tall)
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Pyrrhic: adj. ruinous; gained at too great a cost (From Pyrrhus, who suffered enourmous losses in a "victory" over the Romans)
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stentorian: adj. very loud (from Sentor, legendary herald whose voice was as loud as fifty voices)
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tantalize: v. to excite a hope but prevent its fulfillment; tease (from Tantalus, who waskept hungry and thirsty in the lower world with food and water very near but just beyond his reach)