WORDS CONTAINING SILENT LETTERS
A LAND MASS SURROUNDED ON ALL SIDES BY WATER
ISLAND
THIS LEADER OF THE ARGONAUTS WAS RAISED BY THE CENTAUR CHIRON
JASON
GOOD THING THE BODY DOESN'T CONTAIN ANY OF THIS SECOND-LIGHTEST GAS, OTHERWISE YOU MIGHT FLOAT AWAY
HELIUM
1961 & 1996:
CRUELLA DE VIL
101 DALMATIONS
CHLOROFORM IS AN OLD-TIME ANESTHETIC; THIS IS THE PIGMENT THAT MAKES PLANTS GREEN
CHLOROPHYLL
IT FOLLOWS "ASH" IN THE NAME OF THE FIRST DAY OF LENT
WEDNESDAY
HIS MOTHER THETIS MADE THE MISTAKE OF BATHING HIM IN THE RIVER STYX BY HOLDING HIM BY THE HEEL, THUS MAKING HIS HEEL VULNERABLE
ACHILLES
OOPS IT LOOKS LIKE SOMEBODY SPILLED THIS ELEMENT
MERCURY
1989 & 2023
URSULA
THE LITTLE MERMAID
PROSAIC MEANS DULL; THIS IS A PICTURE MADE OF SMALL BITS OF INLAID GLASS OR STONE
MOSAIC
FROM THE GREEK FOR "SOUL", IT'S SOMEONE WHO CAN FORESEE THE FUTURE OR READ MINDS
PSYCHIC
THE YOKE OF A CHARIOT WAS LASHED TO A POLE VIA THIS, NAMED FOR THE MAN WHO TIED IT SO INTRICATELY
GORDIAN KNOT
THIS METAL THAT'S AS STRONG AS STEEL BUT 45% LIGHTER IS MENTIONED IN A SONG BY SIA & DAVID GUETTA
TITANIUM
1994 & 2019
SCAR
THE LION KING
HELICOID DESCRIBES SOMETHING SHAPED LIKE A SPIRAL; A HELICON IS A COILED BRASS TYPE OF THIS
TUBA
FEBRUARY 2013 HAS 672 OF THESE UNITS
HOURS
THIS GREEK MESSENGER WAS ALSO THE CONDUCTOR OF SOULS TO THE UNDERWORLD
HERMES
TO CUT DOWN ON SALT IN YOUR DIET, YOU NEED TO CUT DOWN ON THIS ELEMENT
SODIUM
DAILY DOUBLE
1998 & 2020
SHAN-YU
MULAN
PICTURE:
FELLINI LEFT DIRECTED MOVIES HE WRITE IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE DIRECTED ITALY AS DICTATOR DURING WORLD WAR TWO
MUSSOLINI
A BOWIE ONE IS LONG & DANGEROUS
KNIFE
ASTERIUS WAS THE NAME OF THIS HYBRID CREATURE KEPT IN THE LABYRINTH
MINOTAUR
THE HAIR OF OTZI THE ICEMAN SHOWED HIGH LEVELS OF THIS POISONOUS ELEMENT, NO. 33, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT KILLED HIM
ARSENIC
1959
MALEFICENT
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
COBALT IS A SILVER-WHITE METAL; THIS IS A HARD, DARK VOLCANIC ROCK, COMMON IN THE EARTH'S CRUST
BASALT