Antigone Vocab Flashcards

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promulgation

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public declaration or a law

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unsepulchered

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unburied

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3
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firebrand

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monster

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4
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edict

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a decree, a formal proclamation

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5
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interdict

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a prohibition

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6
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epiphany

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

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7
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fulminant

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occurring suddenly, rapidly, with great intensity

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8
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ubiquitous

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omnipresent, everywhere

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9
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panoplies

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armor(complete and decorated)

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10
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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

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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

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changeable

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15
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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

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consummate

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bring to fulfillment or completion

19
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jades

A

disreputable women or girls

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encumbrous

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burdensome

21
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sedition

22
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anarchy

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a state or society without government or law; disorder

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reprobate

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morally unprincipled person

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loggerheads

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stuck in a dispute or argument( head on)

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lackey
servant
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ephemeral
fleeting, not lasting
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panegyrics
eulogies: speeches in praise of a person, usually at a funeral
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dirges
funeral songs
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capricious
fickle, implusive
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augury
divination, art of reading omens
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portent
omen
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platitude
trite or cliched remark
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adulate
to praise excessively or fawningly
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supplicate
beseech, entreat, pray
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purblind
slow in understanding or discernment