Antigone Vocab Flashcards by Brendan Tormey

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Bray

A

The sound a donkey makes

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Carrion

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Take of a bird that eats decaying flesh

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To swagger

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To strut with a sense of arrogance

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Auspicious

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Promising success, favorable

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Contempt

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Regarding someone as inferior or worthless

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Reverence

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Awe and respect

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Sentry

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Guard

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Impassively

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A way that shows no emotion or feeling

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Senile

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Incapable of reasoning, because of old age

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Pious

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Reverent, religious

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Anarchist

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A person favoring the overthrow of a government

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Furrow

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A trench that is made by a plow

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Lithe

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Characterized by flexibility

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Hearth

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Fireplace

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To endure

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To remain firm under suffering

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Sultry

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Hot and humid

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Edict

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Official decree

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Immutable

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Unchanging

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Insolence

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Rudeness/disrespect

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Stealthily

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Secretly

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Defrence

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Respect and esteem to an elder

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Subordinate

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To place into inferior class or rank

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Malicious

A

Enjoying watching another suffer

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Male—Bene

A

Evil—Good

Mysogymist

Hater of women

Trample

To crush or injure from walking

To slaken

To lessen the firmness or tension

Perverse

Willfully, determined to go against, stubborn is opposing what is right

Absolve

Free from consequences of guilt

Piety

State of being reverent

Awe

Wondering reverence, tinged with fearing

Blasphemy

The act of insulting or showing contempt lack of reverence for God

Vigil

Act and state of watching

Dirge

Song of grief

Lamentation

Whaling or dying, sadness

Tormented

To submit to excruciating mental or physical pain

Gale

Strong wind

To mingle

To combine

Jangling

Noisy arguing

Entrails

Inner organs of a body

Welter

Turmoil or confusion

Glut

To stuff, to fill with excess

Omen

Something that is supposed to foretell a future event

Triffle

Small, insignificant thing

Citadel

Fortress

Disaster

In Latin-"from the stars"

Clamnity

Disaster

Vault

A room or compartment for keeping valuables