The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, #5)

by Rick Riordan

amphisbaena

epaulettes

PERNICIOUS

troglodytes.”

Cave people, hermit

rocs,

Giamt mythological bird

Achilles’ heel!”

A weakness

skink—

Lizard

matricide

To kill one's mother

bidet,

Oval basin to wash private parts

stalagmites

A rock formation coming ftom the ground up

vestigial

Smaller remnant of something that was much larger before