After Salome dances for Herod, he offers her one half of his ______, but instead of his kingdom she asks for the head of John the Baptist.

The heroine's nocturnal _______ in Bellini's opera sends her into a compromising situation that threatens her fiance's love but later justifies it.

In Icelandic myth, a magic _______ causes Sigurd to forget his fiance Brynhild and choose another bride.

Which word refers to an action of at least two persons?

Which word does NOT suggest an activity?

Because The Odyssey is one of the earliest examples of literature in the western world, many authors ______ to it.

The _______ of young chess players is evident when winning competitors are under age twelve.

The famous character Don Quixote suffered from _______ that windmills were giants and his old horse was a young steed.

Lullabies are written to make babies ______ by the third verse.

In Walt Disney's film Fantasia, hippos and ostriches attired as dancers perform a whimsical _______ of classical ballet.

Which word does NOT refer to a liquid?

Cuttlefish _______ their enemies by clouding the water with a squirt of ink.

Mystery writer Dorothy Sayers liked to _______ plots in which the culprit is the least suspected.

At the ______ of a Knight of the Garter, held at Windsor Castle, the monarch taps the initiate on the shoulder.