Antigone Vocab Flashcards by Brendan Tormey | Brainscape

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Bray

A

The sound a donkey makes

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Carrion

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Take of a bird that eats decaying flesh

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To swagger

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To strut with a sense of arrogance

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Auspicious

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Promising success, favorable

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Contempt

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Regarding someone as inferior or worthless

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Reverence

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Awe and respect

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Sentry

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Guard

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Impassively

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A way that shows no emotion or feeling

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Senile

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Incapable of reasoning, because of old age

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Pious

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Reverent, religious

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Anarchist

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A person favoring the overthrow of a government

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Furrow

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A trench that is made by a plow

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Lithe

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Characterized by flexibility

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Hearth

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Fireplace

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To endure

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To remain firm under suffering

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Sultry

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Hot and humid

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Edict

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Official decree

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Immutable

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Unchanging

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Insolence

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Rudeness/disrespect

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Stealthily

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Secretly

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Defrence

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Respect and esteem to an elder

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Subordinate

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To place into inferior class or rank

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Malicious

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Enjoying watching another suffer

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Male—Bene

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Evil—Good

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Mysogymist

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Hater of women

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Trample

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To crush or injure from walking

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To slaken

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To lessen the firmness or tension

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Perverse

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Willfully, determined to go against, stubborn is opposing what is right

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Absolve

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Free from consequences of guilt

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Piety

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State of being reverent

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Awe

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Wondering reverence, tinged with fearing

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Blasphemy

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The act of insulting or showing contempt lack of reverence for God

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Vigil

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Act and state of watching

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Dirge

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Song of grief

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Lamentation

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Whaling or dying, sadness

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Tormented

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To submit to excruciating mental or physical pain

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Gale

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Strong wind

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To mingle

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To combine

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Jangling

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Noisy arguing

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Entrails

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Inner organs of a body

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Welter

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Turmoil or confusion

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Glut

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To stuff, to fill with excess

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Omen

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Something that is supposed to foretell a future event

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Triffle

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Small, insignificant thing

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Citadel

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Fortress

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Disaster

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In Latin-“from the stars”

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Clamnity

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Disaster

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Vault

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A room or compartment for keeping valuables