Antigone vocab list 2

Question 1

Absolve

Answer 1

To free from blame or guilt

Question 2

Blasphemy

Answer 2

Any irrelevant or contemptuous act or remark

Question 3

brazen

Answer 3

like brass in color or hardness 2. Shameless

Question 4

citadel

Answer 4

a fort that protects a city

Question 5

deference

Answer 5

submission to the wishes of another 2. respect, courtesy

Question 6

defile

Answer 6

to make unclean or impure; soil

Question 7

dirge(s)

Answer 7

a funeral hymn

Question 8

edict

Answer 8

an official order or decision

Question 9

entrails

Answer 9

the internal organs of a human or animal

Question 10

insolent (-lence)

Answer 10

shamelessly disrespectful

Question 11

lament (-ation)

Answer 11

to grieve, mourn; an expression of grief

Question 12

malice (malicious)

Answer 12

Ill- will; spite

Question 13

mortal

Answer 13

human; not able to live forever

Question 14

profane

Answer 14

to treat sacred things with contempt

Question 15

seduce

Answer 15

to persuade a person to do something wrong, or to be disobedient

Question 16

subordinate

Answer 16

to put in a less important position

Question 17

transcend(s)

Answer 17

to go beyond; surpass

Question 18

transgress

Answer 18

to go beyond the limits of something

Question 19

untrammeled

Answer 19

not hindered or confined; free

Question 20

welter

Answer 20

a jumbled mass