Oedipus Studying Guide

Question 1

Citizens are making odedipus for help sitting and crying

Answer 1

dreed us from the tribute cruel sugar

Question 2

They want him to take action now that they are in a bad situations

Answer 2

In those times past you brought joy and omens too

Question 3

The priest is talking to oedipus

Answer 3

for you ill came

Question 4

There is a plague

Answer 4

a deadly peatience the fiery gods sweep down

Question 5

expel

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to drive out or force away

Question 6

customary

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done according to a long continued practice but not a law

Question 7

fume

Answer 7

to show fretful irritation or anger

Question 8

conspired

Answer 8

acted or worked together to plan something evil

Question 9

ignorant

Answer 9

lacking knowledge or awareness

Question 10

accursed

Answer 10

doomed, ill-fated

Question 11

bogus

Answer 11

not genuine

Question 12

quack

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a person who publically pretends to have a skill they do not have

Question 13

render

Answer 13

to cause someone or something to be in specified condition

Question 14

cryptic

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mysterious, puzzling

Question 15

mock

Answer 15

to attack or ridicule by mimicry of action or speech

Question 16

yearn

Answer 16

to have an earnest or strong desire

Question 17

Menoeceus

Answer 17

the father of Jocasta and creon

Question 18

Creon

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the brother of Jocasts

Question 19

Pythian

Answer 19

of or pertaining Apollo

Question 20

Apollo

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the acient Greek and Roman god of light, healing, music, poetry, prophecy, and manly beauty.

Question 21

Shrine

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a place of worship made holy by association with a sacred person or object

Question 22

Phoebus

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apollo as the sun god, the sun personified

Question 23

Delphi

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an ancient city in the central Greece, in Phocis: site of an oracle of Apollo

Question 24

Sought

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wet in search or quest of

Question 25

Kinsman

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a blood relative, especially a male

Question 26

confidence

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certainty

Question 27

obscure

Answer 27

not well known or difficult to understand

Question 28

afresh

Answer 28

from a fresh beginning

Question 29

avenging

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harming or punishing someone who has harmed you or someone or something that you care about

Question 30

vengeance

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the act of doing something to hurt someone because that person did something that hurt you or someone else

Question 31

common

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the complete loss of health, means, position, hope, or the belonging equally to an entire community

Question 32

Zeus

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the supreme diety of the ancient Greeks, the gods of the heaven

Question 33

Pytho

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another name for the city of Delphi, where the shrine of Apollo is located

Question 34

Cadmeians

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another name for the citizens of Thebes

Question 35

rack

Answer 35

an implement of torture

Question 36

intent

Answer 36

the thing that you plan to do or achieve

Question 37

Labdacus

Answer 37

Lauis’s father

Question 38

mute

Answer 38

not able or willing to speak

Question 39

ally

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a person or group that gives hep to another person or group

Question 40

wretched

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very unhappy or very bad or unpleasant

Question 41

dispatched

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to have sent quickly to a particular place or a particular purpose