📚Vocabulary a of G
Easily fooled or duped.
👉 What is gullible?
Spread by Anopheles mosquitoes, malaria is one of the world’s deadliest diseases caused by this protozoan parasite.
👉 What is Plasmodium?
These siblings found a candy house, but the real moral isn’t about sweets — it’s that survival sometimes demands violence and cruelty.
👉 Who are Hansel and Gretel?
This Sega machine was ahead of its time in 1999, but the PlayStation 2’s arrival buried it in just two years.
👉 What is the Sega Dreamcast?
Crafted by Hephaestus, she opened a jar that released every evil into the world, leaving only hope inside.
👉 Who is Pandora?
A huge, powerful person or thing; giant in size or influence.
👉 What is a goliath?
The insect vector for malaria, dengue, and Zika, called the most dangerous animal on Earth.
👉 What is the mosquito
He flew too close to the sun, but the darker lesson isn’t “don’t dream big” — it’s “obey your father or die.”
👉 Who is Icarus?
Microsoft bundled this camera with the Xbox One, but shallow games and an inflated launch price doomed it.
👉 What is the Kinect?
This hero defeated the Minotaur with help from Ariadne’s thread.
👉 Who is Theseus?
A person who eats or drinks excessively.
👉 What is a glutton?
Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, this pandemic killed nearly one-third of Europe in the 14th century.
👉 What is the Black Death (the plague)?
A boy who wasn’t punished for lying, but instead was punished because no one cared enough to save him when he finally told the truth.
👉 What is The Boy Who Cried Wolf?
This mid-2000s handheld from Sony wasn’t a total failure, but it never caught up to Nintendo’s DS juggernaut.
👉 What is the PSP?
Chained to a spinning wheel of fire, this Titan punished for siding with Cronus is the father of the sun god Helios.
👉 Who is Hyperion?
Done reluctantly or unwillingly.
👉 What is grudging?
This humble fungus gave us the first true antibiotic and revolutionized medicine.
👉 What is Penicillium?
A ruler who got his wish that everything he touched turned to gold — including his food and his daughter.
👉 Who is King Midas?
Marketed as a “virtual reality” revolution in 1995, this red-and-black console gave more headaches than hits.
👉 What is the Virtual Boy?
Known as the god of war, this son of Zeus and Hera was despised even by other Olympians for his bloodlust.
👉 Who is Ares?
Unwarranted, excessive, or uncalled for.
👉 What is gratuitous?
Microscopic organisms drifting in the ocean, they form the base of the marine food web and produce about half of Earth’s oxygen.
👉 What are phytoplankton?
The god who gave humanity fire also gave them endless toil and suffering, bound to a rock for eternity.
👉 Who is Prometheus?
Nintendo thought a second screen would change gaming, but confusing marketing and poor support sank this 2012 system fast.
👉 What is the Wii U?
This goddess of the hunt carried a silver bow and demanded eternal chastity from her followers.
👉 Who is Artemis?