incarnate melancholy cerberus lad achilles

incarnate

in‧car‧nate1 /ɪnˈkɑːnət $ -ɑːr-/ adjective

1. be evil/beauty/greed etc incarnate to have an extreme amount of a particular quality:
   • He is now respectability incarnate.
2. having taken human form:
   • Jesus, the incarnate Son of God
   • The media cast him as the devil incarnate (=someone very evil).

melancholy

mel‧an‧chol‧y1 /ˈmelənkəli $ -kɑːli/ adjective

• very sad:
  • The music suited her melancholy mood.

Cerberus

Cer‧be‧rus /ˈsɜːbərəs $ ˈsɜːr-/

in Greek mythology, a dog with three heads who guarded the entrance to hades (=the place where the spirits of dead people are supposed to live)

lad

lad /læd/ ●●○ S3 noun [countable] British English

1. old-fashioned informal a boy or young man → lass:
   • a young lad
   • Things were different when I was a lad.
2. the lads spoken a group of male friends that a man works with or spends his free time with:
   • a night out with the lads
   • one of the lads (=a member of your group of friends)
3. a bit of a lad spoken a man that people like even though he behaves rather badly:
   • That Chris is a bit of a lad, isn’t he?
4. lad culture informal the way in which some young men behave, involving typically male activities such as drinking a lot of alcohol, driving fast cars, and watching football – used to show disapproval
5. (also stable lad) a boy or man who works with horses SYN stable boy

Achilles

A‧chil‧les /əˈkɪliːz/

in ancient Greek stories, a hero who was protected by magic so that the only place where he could be hurt was his heel. He was the greatest Greek warrior in the Trojan War, and he killed the greatest of the Trojan warriors, Hector. However, Hector's brother, Paris, then killed Achilles by wounding him in his heel. → Iliad