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Our Word for Wednesday theme for June is words that derive from Greek mythology. So far we’ve looked at the words atlas, chaos, mentor, and narcissist; our final word for June is tantalise.
If you tantalise someone, it means you torment or tease them with something they want but can’t get.
Here is tantalise used in some example sentences:
The blue skies tantalised us, but it was still very cold outside.
She held the treat just out of reach to tantalise the puppy before finally giving it to him.
We were tantalised by the computer in the shop window but we knew we couldn’t afford it.
The word gets its name from Tantalus who, as ...
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Mentor
Definition:
Noun
1: a wise and trusted guide and advisor
Verb
1: serve as a teacher or trusted counsellor
Mentor was the advisor to Telemachus (the son of Odysseus and Penelope – the central characters in Homer’s Odyssey). In many versions of the myth, the goddess Athena disguised herself as Mentor and convinced Telemachus to stand up to his mother’s suitors and search for his missing father who had not returned from the Trojan War.
Morphine
Definition:
Noun
1: an alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium; a powerful, habit-forming narcotic used to relieve pain
Remember Morpheus, the god of dreams, from...
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