Banned Books
Myths & Legends
Science Terms
Abbrev.
Starts with 2 Vowels
400
This 1951 J.D. Salinger work
The Catcher in the Rye
400
This god of the vine was the son of Zeus & Semele
Bacchus (or Dionysus)
400
Nutation is the bobbing motion of a spinning rigid body; this toy is the classic example
A top
400
A recent, frightening addition to our world language:
WMD
Weapons of mass destruction
400
It can be any refuge, or a small, fertile green region in the desert
An oasis
800
Laura Ingalls Wilder's 1935 book
Little House on the Prairie
800
One of the heroes of the "Iliad", this king of Ithaca is the son of Laertes
Odysseus
800
When a tree's tissues are replaced by quartz, you get this type of wood, also a synonym for "frightened"
Petrified
800
Since 1871, they've aimed to please:
NRA
The National Rifle Association
800
This type of down comes from the duck of the same name
Eider
1200
Anthony Burgess' 1962 tale of juvenile delinquency
A Clockwork Orange
1200
One legend says that Acteon's death was caused by seeing this virgin goddess naked; she set his hounds on him
Artemis
1200
You'd expect the paper to fly up when extreme pressure is applied, but instead... the wood breaks; air couldn't flow in quickly enough between the paper, the wood, & the table, so a partial this 6-letter term was formed
A vacuum
1200
Printer particular:
DPI
Dots per inch
1200
Michael Faraday introduced this term for an electrically charged atom
An ion
1600
Giovanni Boccaccio's 1353 collection of tales
The Decameron
1600
The judgment of Paris was fixed; this Greek goddess won the title by promising to give him Helen
Aphrodite
1600
The Schottky effect is a type of increase in the discharge of these subatomic particles from a heated surface
Electrons
1600
You can bank on it:
FDIC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
1600
A trapeze artist
An aerialist
2000
Daniel Keyes' 1966 novel of mouse & man
Flowers for Algernon
2000
This Greek goddess' name has come to mean "an unbeatable opponent or rival"
Nemesis
2000
Glucose & fructose are monosaccharides; by removing a molecule of water, the two join to form this disaccharide, also known as table sugar
Sucrose
2000
Like NAFTA, but farther south:
CAFTA
Central American Free Trade Agreement
2000
Closely related to the tuba, this instrument seen here was invented in Germany in 1843
An euphonium