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Superheroes' names are also some of the most studied S.A.T. review words. Take a look --

Example: **__Juggernaut__**

__Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__  1 //chiefly British// **:** a large heavy truck  2 **:** a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path

__Dictionary.com:__ 1. any large, overpowering, destructive force or object, as war, a giant battleship, or a powerful football team. 2. anything requiring blind devotion or cruel sacrifice.


 * When he played Center on the Glen Rock Football Team, Juggernaut lead a juggernaut of pain against Paterson Catholic.**


 * __Angel__**

__Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **1** **:** a spiritual being superior to humans in power and intelligence ; //especially// **:** one in the lowest rank in the celestial hierarchy  **2** **:** an attendant spirit or guardian

__Dictionary.com:__
 * **1.** || one of a class of spiritual beings; a celestial attendant of God. In medieval angelology, angels constituted the lowest of the nine celestial orders (seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations or dominions, virtues, powers, principalities or princedoms, archangels, and angels). ||
 * **2.** || a conventional representation of such a being, in human form, with wings, usually in white robes. ||


 * Angel was always a very religious person and prayed to his guardian angel every night.

__Apocalypse__

__Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **2 a : **something viewed as a prophetic revelation** b : **armageddon** 3 : **a great disaster 

__Dictionary.com:__** 
 * (//initial capital letter// [[image:http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png]]) revelation <span class="dn" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline;">( def. 4<span class="dn" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline;">) . ||
 * **2.** || any of a class of Jewish or Christian writings that appeared from about 200 b.c. to a.d. 350 and were assumed to make revelations of the ultimate divine purpose. ||


 * Apocalypse was destorying so much of the earth that everyone inhabiting the planet thought it was an apocalypse.**

**__Avalanche__**

__Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **__:__** a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice a cumulative process in which photons or accelerated charge carriers produce additional photons or charge carriers through collisions (as with gas molecules)

<span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity
 * __Dictionary.com:__ **


 * When Avalanche hit his foe into the mountain covered in snow, it caused an avalanche.**

**__Banshee__** __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ a female spirit in Gaelic folklore whose appearance or wailing warns a family that one of them will soon die

<span style="line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">(in Irish folklore) a spirit in the form of a wailing woman who appears to or is heard by members of a family as a sign that one of them is about to die.
 * __Dictionary.com:__ **


 * All of the villains called her Banshee because she would scream or wail like a banshee right before she attacked them.**

**__Beast__** __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **1 a : **a four-footed mammal as distinguished from a human being, a lower vertebrate, and an invertebrate** b : **a lower animal as distinguished from a human being** c : **an animal as distinguished from a plant** d : **an animal under human control**

__Dictionary.com:__ <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
 * **1.** || any nonhuman animal, esp. a large, four-footed mammal. ||
 * **2.** || the crude animal nature common to humans and the lower animals ||


 * Beast looked like a beast with traits of both wild animals and humans.**

**__Bedlam__** __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ 1. a lunatic asylum **2. **a place, scene, or state of uproar and confusion**

__Dictionary.com:__ <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
 * **1.** || a scene or state of wild uproar and confusion. ||
 * **2.** || <span class="labset" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; font-style: normal;"><span class="ital-inline" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline;">//Archaic// . an insane asylum or madhouse. ||


 * Bedlam was always known for causing bedlam wherever he went.**

**__Bishop__** __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **1 : **one having spiritual or ecclesiastical supervision: as** a : **an Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, or Roman Catholic clergyman ranking above a priest, having authority to ordain and confirm, and typically governing a diocese** b : **any of various Protestant clerical officials who superintend other clergy** c : **a Mormon high priest presiding over a ward or over all other** **bishops** **and over the Aaronic priesthood**

__Dictionary.com:__ <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
 * **1.** || a person who supervises a number of local churches or a diocese, being in the Greek, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and other churches a member of the highest order of the ministry. ||
 * **2.** || a spiritual supervisor, overseer, or the like. ||


 * Before Bishop was a superhero, he followed his father in being a bishop.**

**__Blob__** __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **1 a : **a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick** b : **a daub or spot of color** 2 : **something ill-defined or amorphous**

__Dictionary.com:__ <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
 * **1.** || a globule of liquid; bubble. ||
 * **2.** || a small lump, drop, splotch, or daub ||


 * Blob would usually eat a blob of food for lunch and dinner.**

**__Brute__** __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **4 : **purely physical** 5 : **unrelievedly harsh**

__Dictionary.com:__ <span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
 * **1.** || a nonhuman creature; beast. ||
 * **2.** || a brutal, insensitive, or crude person. ||


 * Brute used brute force to get whatever he wanted whenever he wanted it.**

**__Cable__** __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **1 a** **:** a strong rope especially of 10 inches (25 centimeters) or more in circumference **b** **:** a cable-laid rope **c** **:** a wire rope or metal chain of great tensile strength **d** **:** a wire or wire rope by which force is exerted to control or operate a mechanism

<span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px;"> __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **1** **:** any of various gems (as a chrysoberyl or a chalcedony) exhibiting opalescent reflections from within
 * __Dictionary.com:__ **
 * **1.** || a heavy, strong rope. ||
 * **2.** || a very strong rope made of strands of metal wire, as used to support cable cars or suspension bridges. ||
 * At the last second, Cable found a cable he could climb up to get free.**
 * __Catseye__**
 * 2** **:** a marble with eyelike concentric circles

<span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px;">
 * __Dictionary.com:__ **
 * **1.** || any of certain gems having a chatoyant luster, esp. chrysoberyl. ||
 * **2.** || a playing marble marked with eyelike concentric circles. ||
 * After hours of digging, Catseye finally dug up a catseye that he could sell.**

**__Caliban__** __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ a savage and deformed slave in Shakespeare's The Tempest

** __Dictionary.com:__ <span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">the ugly, beastlike slave of Prospero in Shakespeare's <span class="ital-inline" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline;">//The Tempest.//


 * Whenever a Caliban got to read he would read about Caliban from Shakespeare.**

**__Chamber__** __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **: **a natural or artificial enclosed space or cavity**
 * **a hall for the meetings of a deliberative, legislative, or judicial body**

__Dictionary.com:__ <span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
 * **1.** || a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, esp. a bedroom ||
 * **2.** || a room in a palace or official residence. ||


 * Chamber kept all of his belongings in a chamber that no one else could get to.**

**__Changeling__ __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **: a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy

__Dictionary.com:__ <span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
 * **1.** || a child surreptitiously or unintentionally substituted for another. ||
 * **2.** || (in folklore) an ugly, stupid, or strange child left by fairies in place of a pretty, charming child. ||


 * Ever since he saw it in a movie, Changeling was always frightened by the idea of changeling.**

**__Colossus__** __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **1 : **a statue of gigantic size and proportions** 2 : **a person or thing of immense size or power**

__Dictionary.com:__ <span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
 * **1.** || <span class="labset" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; font-style: normal;">(<span class="ital-inline" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline;">//initial capital letter// [[image:http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png]]) the legendary bronze statue of Helios at Rhodes. ||
 * **2.** || any statue of gigantic size. ||


 * Colossus was known by all his peers as being a colossus because he towered over everyone else.**

**__Copycat__** __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **1 : **one who imitates or adopts the behavior or practices of another** 2 : **an imitative act or product**

__Dictionary.com:__ <span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
 * **1.** || a person or thing that copies, imitates, mimics, or follows the lead of another, as a child who says or does exactly the same as another child. ||


 * Everyone was annoyed at Copycat because she would do her usual copycat routine to anyone who talked to her.**

**__Corsair__** __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **: **a privateer of the Barbary Coast**

__Dictionary.com:__ <span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
 * **1.** || a fast ship used for piracy. ||
 * **2.** || a pirate, esp. formerly of the Barbary Coast. ||
 * Every year for Halloween Corsair would dress up as a Corsair.**

**__Cyclops__** __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ any of a race of giants in Greek mythology with a single eye in the middle of the forehead

<span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
 * __Dictionary.com:__ **
 * **1.** || <span class="labset" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; font-style: normal;"><span class="ital-inline" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline;">//Classical Mythology// . a member of a family of giants having a single round eye in the middle of the forehead. ||
 * **2.** || <span class="labset" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; font-style: normal;">(<span class="ital-inline" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline;">//lowercase// [[image:http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png]]) a freshwater copepod of the genus<span class="ital-inline" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline;">//Cyclops,// having a median eye in the front of the head. ||
 * All the kids at school called Cyclops a cyclops because he was blind in one eye.**

__** Daytripper **__ __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ ** one who takes a trip that does not last overnight

__Dictionary.com:__ <span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">a person who goes on a trip, esp. an excursion, lasting all or part of a day but not overnight.


 * Daytripper did not like to stay away from home long and was usually a daytripper when he went on vacation.**

__** Destiny **

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **:** something to which a person or thing is destined
 * 2** **:** a predetermined course of events often held to be an irresistible power or agency

<span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px;">
 * __Dictionary.com:__ **
 * **1.** || something that is to happen or has happened to a particular person or thing; lot or fortune. ||
 * **2.** || the predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible, course of events. ||
 * Ever since she was a child Destiny thought her destiny was to be a singer.**

**__Domino__** __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **//1 a// **//(1)//** : **a long loose hooded cloak usually worn with a half mask as a masquerade costume //(2)//** : **a half mask worn over the eyes with a masquerade costume** b : **a person wearing a domino** 2 a : **a flat rectangular block (as of wood or plastic) whose face is divided into two equal parts that are blank or bear usually from one to six dots arranged as on dice faces**

__Dictionary.com:__ <span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
 * **1.** || a flat, thumbsized, rectangular block, the face of which is divided into two parts, each either blank or bearing from one to six pips or dots: 28 such pieces form a complete set. ||
 * **2.** || <span class="indefinitionword" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline;">**dominoes,** <span class="labset" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; font-style: normal;">(<span class="ital-inline" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline;">//used with a singular verb// [[image:http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png]]) any of various games played with such pieces, usually by matching the ends of pieces and laying the dominoes down in lines and angular patterns. ||
 * Domino would play dominos with his family every night of the week.**

__** Fallen **__ __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **1 a : **to descend freely by the force of gravity** b : **to hang freely**

__Dictionary.com:__ <span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
 * **2.** || having dropped or come down from a higher place, from an upright position, or from a higher level, degree, amount, quality, value, number, etc. ||
 * **3.** || on the ground; prostrate; down flat ||
 * Fallen had just fallen from a tree and was laying on the ground.**

**__Gambit__** __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **1 : **a chess opening in which a player risks one or more pawns or a minor piece to gain an advantage in position**

__Dictionary.com:__ <span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
 * **1.** || <span class="labset" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; font-style: normal;"><span class="ital-inline" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline;">//Chess// . an opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece. ||
 * **2.** || any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage. ||


 * Gambit always used the same tactic in chess known as gambit.**

**__Gladiator__** __Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:__ **1** **:** a person engaged in a fight to the death as public entertainment for ancient Romans
 * 2** **:** a person engaging in a public fight or controversy
 * 3** **:** a trained fighter; especially **:** a professional boxer

<span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
 * __Dictionary.com:__ **
 * **1.** || (in ancient Rome) a person, often a slave or captive, who was armed with a sword or other weapon and compelled to fight to the death in a public arena against another person or a wild animal, for the entertainment of the spectators. ||
 * **2.** || a person who engages in a fight or controversy. ||
 * **3.** || a prizefighter. ||


 * Gladiator was known as the best gladiator in the world after he beat his arch rival.**

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