Antigone Vocab 2

Question 1

Baseness

Answer 1

Lack of moral principles

Ex: the badness of human nature

Question 2

Opprobrious

Answer 2

Expressing criticism

Ex: she spoke of opprobrious when she yelled

Question 3

Forthwith

Answer 3

Immediately/without delay

Ex: we pay forwith the money that was required

Question 4

Lucre

Answer 4

Money gained in a dishonorable way

Ex:officials getting their hands dirty with filthy lucre

Question 5

Hasten

Answer 5

Be quick to do something

Ex: we hastened back to the USA

Question 6

Woe

Answer 6

Great sorrow

Ex: they have a complicated tail of woe

Question 7

Unhallowed

Answer 7

Not formally consecrated

Ex: she as very unhallowed

Question 8

Bower

Answer 8

A shady place

Ex: She lived in a bower

Question 9

Foreboding

Answer 9

Fearful apprehension

Ex: with a sense of foreboding she write a note

Question 10

Augur

Answer 10

Portend a good or bad outcome

Ex: the end of a war seemed to augar well

Question 11

Portend

Answer 11

Be a sign/warning that something is likely to happen

Ex: the eclipses portend some major events

Question 12

Lament

Answer 12

A passionate expression of grief or sorrow

Ex: his moms day long lements for his father

Question 13

Appease

Answer 13

Relieve/satisfy

Ex: Amendments have been added to appease local pressure groups

Question 14

Requite

Answer 14

Appropriately return a favor

Ex: they are quick to requite forgiveness

Question 15

Dauntless

Answer 15

Showing fearlessness and determination

Ex: she had dauntless bravery