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Antigone Vocab Flashcards

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promulgation

A

public declaration or a law

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unsepulchered

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unburied

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firebrand

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monster

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edict

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a decree, a formal proclamation

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interdict

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a prohibition

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epiphany

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a sudden flash of understanding, a revelation by a divine being

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fulminant

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occurring suddenly, rapidly, with great intensity

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ubiquitous

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omnipresent, everywhere

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panoplies

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armor(complete and decorated)

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vicissitudes

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any changes or variations in something, mutability

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11
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recompense

A

payment anends

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12
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mettle

A

courage and fourtitude

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13
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disposition

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one’s mood or temperature

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14
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volatile

A

changeable

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flailing

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thrashing, striking

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flagrantly

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deliberately, conspicuously

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metamorphose

A

change form

18
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consummate

A

bring to fulfillment or completion

19
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jades

A

disreputable women or girls

20
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encumbrous

A

burdensome

21
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sedition

A

rebillion

22
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anarchy

A

a state or society without government or law; disorder

23
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reprobate

A

morally unprincipled person

24
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loggerheads

A

stuck in a dispute or argument( head on)

25
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lackey

A

servant

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ephemeral

A

fleeting, not lasting

27
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panegyrics

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eulogies: speeches in praise of a person, usually at a funeral

28
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dirges

A

funeral songs

29
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capricious

A

fickle, implusive

30
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augury

A

divination, art of reading omens

31
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portent

A

omen

32
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platitude

A

trite or cliched remark

33
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adulate

A

to praise excessively or fawningly

34
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supplicate

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beseech, entreat, pray

35
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purblind

A

slow in understanding or discernment

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