scintillating phlegethon hideously expanse charon

scintillating

scin‧til‧lat‧ing /ˈsɪntəleɪtɪŋ/ adjective

• interesting, clever, and amusing:
  • scintillating conversation
  • a scintillating performance

Phlegethon

Phlegethon noun /ˈfle-gə-ˌthän /

• a river of fire in Hades

Origin

• Latin, from Greek Phlegethōn
• First Known Use: 14th century

hideously

hid‧e‧ous /ˈhɪdiəs/ adjective

• extremely unpleasant or ugly:

  • a hideous dress
  • hideous crimes
  • Dinnertime that day was hideous.

• hideously adverb:

  • Her face was hideously scarred.

• hideousness noun [uncountable]

expanse

ex‧panse /ɪkˈspæns/ noun [countable]

• a very large area of water, sky, land etc
  • expanse of
    • an expanse of blue sky
  • vast/wide/large etc expanse
    • the vast expanse of the ocean

charon

Cha‧ron /ˈkeərən/

• in Greek mythology, the ferryman who took the souls of dead people in his boat across the river Styx to Hades