Antigone Vocab Flashcards
promulgation
public declaration or a law
unsepulchered
unburied
firebrand
monster
edict
a decree, a formal proclamation
interdict
a prohibition
epiphany
a sudden flash of understanding, a revelation by a divine being
fulminant
occurring suddenly, rapidly, with great intensity
ubiquitous
omnipresent, everywhere
panoplies
armor(complete and decorated)
vicissitudes
any changes or variations in something, mutability
recompense
payment anends
mettle
courage and fourtitude
disposition
one’s mood or temperature
volatile
changeable
flailing
thrashing, striking
flagrantly
deliberately, conspicuously
metamorphose
change form
consummate
bring to fulfillment or completion
jades
disreputable women or girls
encumbrous
burdensome
sedition
rebillion
anarchy
a state or society without government or law; disorder
reprobate
morally unprincipled person
loggerheads
stuck in a dispute or argument( head on)
lackey
servant
ephemeral
fleeting, not lasting
panegyrics
eulogies: speeches in praise of a person, usually at a funeral
dirges
funeral songs
capricious
fickle, implusive
augury
divination, art of reading omens
portent
omen
platitude
trite or cliched remark
adulate
to praise excessively or fawningly
supplicate
beseech, entreat, pray
purblind
slow in understanding or discernment
