Oedipus Vocab Flashcards

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Blight

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Destructive Disease

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Pestilence

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Plague

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Induced

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Caused

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Dispatch

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Kill

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Invoke

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Summon;cause to appear

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Prophecy

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Prediction of the future

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Countenance

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The look on a persons face

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Malignant

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Very Harmful

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9
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Lamentations

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Expression if deep sorrow

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Expiation

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The act of making amends for wrong doing

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Brazen

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Of brass or like brass in color

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Sovereignty

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Supreme authority

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13
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Chide

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Scold

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14
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Obstinacy

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Stubbornness

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Besotted

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Foolish;stupefied

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Knavish

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Deceitful

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Herald

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Person who makes proclamations and carries messages

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Infamies

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Items of notorious disgrace and dishonor

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Surfeit

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Excessive supply

20
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Fettered

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Shackled ; Chained

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Beneficent

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Kind; helpful

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Consonant

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In harmony or agreement

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Gratify

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Please

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Infamous

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Disgraceful

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Reverence

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Show great respect

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Conjecturing

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Inferring or predicting from incomplete evidence

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Swaddling

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Cloth wrapped around an infant at birth in ancient times

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Purge

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Cleanse of guilt or sin

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Imprecations

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Acts of cursing and invoking evil

30
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Vilely

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Wickedly

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Parricide

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One who murders one’s father