HONORS SET 3
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HONORS SET 3
Words with Greek roots
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ambrosial – adj.• Delicious, fragrant, divine
Ambrosia was the food of the gods. Today we describe wonderful food as ambrosial, but it can describe other things, such as an ambrosial spring breeze or ambrosial gardens.
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halcyon• Adj.• Calm, peacefulIt was a halcyon day on the bay. The water was like a
mirror; it was so tranquil.• From Halcyone, a daughter of King Aeolus, who
drowned herself when she heard of her husband’s death and then was turned into a seabird (along with her husband). According to myth, this bird nested at sea and calmed the wind and waves during the nesting season.
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Metamorphosis noun
• A transformation, a marked alteration
• The daughter of King Aeolus underwent a metamorphosis. She was transformed from a woman to a bird.
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Labyrinthine adj.• Complicated, perplexing, mazelike• The labyrinthine gardens were so vast and
intricate, it took all day to explore their elaborate layout.
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titanic adjHuge, powerfulThe titanic bulldozer easily scraped tons of rock-laden earth in order to clear the new roadway.
From Greek Titans, the giants who were believed to have ruled the Earth before the gods of Olympus.