Antigone Vocab Flashcards by sophie west

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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

Perverse

Stubborn I'm opposing what is right

Vault

A room or chamber of safe keeping or valuables

Absolve

To free from the consequences or guilt

Piety

The state of being reverent

Awe

Wondering reverence tinged with fear

Dirge

A song or hymn of grief

Lamentation

Wailing, sorrow, crying

Vigil

The act or state of watching or guarding

Blasphemy

The act of insulting or showing contempt for God

Transgress

To violate or break a law or command

Jangling

Noisy arguing

Entrails

Inner organs of a body

Welter

Turmoil or confusion

Gale

A string fierce wind

Mingle

To mix or combine liquids

Tormented

To submit to excruciating pain

Calamity

A disaster

Defile

To make dirty, unclean, or impure

Stealthily

Secretly

Glut

To fill to excess, to stuff

Omen

Something that is supposed to fortell a future event

Trifile

A small or insignificant thing

Citidel

A fortress