1. (Daniel Defoe’s novel.) Applied to persons who by force of circumstances have to live alone in a very sparsely populated or uninhabited area and have to sustain themselves.

2. (The name given to Cardinal Richelieu’s counselor.) Persons who exercise power in the background.

3. (In Greek mythology one of certain sea-nymphs, half woman and half bird, whose songs lured sailors to death.) A beautiful, fascinating woman, insidious and deceptive.

4. (Nicolai Gogol, “Dead souls”.) An ignorant, brutal landowner. A coarse, conservatively-minded man, who is hostile to anything new, is extremely obstinate and close-fisted.

5. (From the French nursery tale), pretty young girls who are listless and dreamy.

6. (Alexander Duma, “The three musketeers”.) Three inseparable friends.

7. Self-righteous or hypocritical persons.

8. (Rossini’s opera “The barber of Seville”.) Persons doing several things at the same time.

9. About skeptics.

10. (In Roman mythology one of the three goddesses of vengeance.) Applied to a passionately violent woman or to a woman in a fit of anger.