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Antigone Vocab Flashcards

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Bray

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The noise a donkey makes

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Carrion

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Rotting or decaying flesh

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Swagger

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To strut or walk with pride

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Auspicious

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Promising success or favorable

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Contempt

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Attitude of regarding someone or something as worthless

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Reverence

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Awe and respect

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Sentry

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A guard

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Senile

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Incapable or reasoning because of old age

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Pious

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Showing reverence for the divine

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Impassively

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A way that shows no emotion or feeling

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Anarchist

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Person favoring the overthrow of a government

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Furrow

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A trench in the earth made by a plow

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Lithe

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Characterized by flexibility and and grace

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Hearth

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Place in front of a fireplace

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Sultry

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Hot and humid

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Edict

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Official decree, not quite a law

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Immutable

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Unchangable

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Insolence

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Rudeness and disrespect

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Endure

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To remain string during suffering

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Deference

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Respect for another’s authority

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Misogynist

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A person who hates women

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Seduce

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To lead astray usually by persuasion or by false promises

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Slacken

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To lesson the firmness or tension

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Trample

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To crush or injure by treading on

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Perverse

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Stubborn I’m opposing what is right

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Vault

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A room or chamber of safe keeping or valuables

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Absolve

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To free from the consequences or guilt

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Piety

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The state of being reverent

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Awe

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Wondering reverence tinged with fear

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Dirge

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A song or hymn of grief

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Lamentation

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Wailing, sorrow, crying

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Vigil

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The act or state of watching or guarding

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Blasphemy

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The act of insulting or showing contempt for God

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Transgress

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To violate or break a law or command

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Jangling

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Noisy arguing

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Entrails

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Inner organs of a body

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Welter

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Turmoil or confusion

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Gale

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A string fierce wind

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Mingle

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To mix or combine liquids

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Tormented

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To submit to excruciating pain

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Calamity

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A disaster

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Defile

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To make dirty, unclean, or impure

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Stealthily

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Secretly

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Glut

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To fill to excess, to stuff

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Omen

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Something that is supposed to fortell a future event

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Trifile

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A small or insignificant thing

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Citidel

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A fortress

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