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Vocabulary Building Blocks: (74 Across) elude (VERB) 1. To avoid or escape from by dexterity or artifice. 2. Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues). Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck,
evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt. 3. Escape, either
physically or mentally. Synonyms: bilk, evade. 4. Be incomprehensible to; escape
understanding by. Synonym: escape. Hypernyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder,
dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick,
stupefy, vex. Derived from Latin: e out PLUS ludere to play.
Did You Know? (36 Down) In Greek mythology Mnemosyne, the
goddess of memory and a daughter of the earth goddess Gaia, was the mother of
the nine Muses. Zeus was their father. The Muses were called upon by the poets
and artists of ancient Greece and Rome. Each one was associated with a
particular art: Calliope with epic poetry; Clio with history; Erato,
lyric poetry; Euterpe with the flute; Melpomene with tragedy; Polyhymnia, mime;
Terpsichore, dance; Thalia with comedy; and Urania, astronomy. The names of
Erato and Clio are the two most common of the nine used in easy crossword
puzzles, due to the placement of the vowels in the names. (Also See: A Kentucky Crosswords' Word
Search Puzzle on Names from Greek Mythology.)
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