Oedipus Vocab Flashcards by Joe McCadden | Brainscape

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Blight

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Death of plant tissues

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Pestilence

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Plague

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Induced

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Persuade/influence

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Dispatch

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To kill

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Invoke

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To summon

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Prophecy

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The foretelling of what is to come

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Countenance

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Appearance

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Malignant

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To cause harm

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Lamentations

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Expressing grief

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Obstinacy

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Stubbornness

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Besotted

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Foolish

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Knavish

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Deceiving

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Herald

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Person who makes proclamations or sends messages

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Infamies

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Items of notorious dishonor

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Surfeit

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Excessive supply

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Fettered

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To restrain with chains

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Beneficient

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Doing good

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Reverence

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Showing great respect

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Conjecturing

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Inferring from incomplete evidence

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Swaddling

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Long narrow bands of cloth wrapped around infants

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Purge

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Cleanse of guilt or sin

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Imprecations

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Invoking evil

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Vively

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Wickedly

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Parricide

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One who murders one’s father