Oedipus the King Vocab 1

Question 1

Suppliant

Answer 1

praying humbly for something

Question 2

venerable

Answer 2

impressive by reason of age

Question 3

obdurate

Answer 3

showing unfeeling resistance to change one’s opinion

Question 4

welter

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toss,roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way

Question 5

blight

Answer 5

a state of being devastated

Question 6

beseech

Answer 6

to ask for or request earnestly

Question 7

sluggard

Answer 7

an idle lazy person

Question 8

extirpate

Answer 8

to destroy completely

Question 9

expiation

Answer 9

paying for sin or wrongdoing

Question 10

suborn

Answer 10

to commit a crime or evil deed

Question 11

unscathed

Answer 11

not injured

Question 12

recompense

Answer 12

payment or reward

Question 13

teeming

Answer 13

abundantly filled with especially living things

Question 14

blanch

Answer 14

turn pale as if in fear

Question 15

adjure

Answer 15

ask for or request earnestly

Question 16

taciturnity

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the trait of being uncommunicative

Question 17

flout

Answer 17

treat with contemptuous disregard/ ignoring

Question 18

stint

Answer 18

a period of time spent on something

Question 19

calumny

Answer 19

false accusation of an offense

Question 20

charlatan

Answer 20

a vibrant deciever

Question 21

reverberate

Answer 21

ring or echo with sound

Question 22

petulance

Answer 22

an irritable feeling

Question 23

glib

Answer 23

persuasive in speech

Question 24

repose

Answer 24

freedom from activity/ rest

Question 25

stealthy

Answer 25

market by quiet and action and secrecy