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| an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment |
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| to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish |
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| a conception of something in its perfection |
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| adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty |
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| to engage in thought or reflection; meditate |
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| a great flood of water; inundation; flood |
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| portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious |
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| a deadly or virulent epidemic disease |
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| gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted |
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| an act of transgressing; violation of a law, command, etc |
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| the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype |
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| noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style: Homer's Iliad is an epic poem |
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| a main character in an epic whose legendary or heroic actions are central to his/her culture, race, or nation |
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| a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared |
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