Oedipus lessons 6-13 vocab.

Question 1

accursed

Answer 1

doomed, ill-fated

Question 2

bogus

Answer 2

not genuine

Question 3

quack

Answer 3

a person who publically pretends to have a skill the do not have.

Question 4

render

Answer 4

to cause someone or something to be a specified condition.

Question 5

cryptic

Answer 5

mysterious, puzzling

Question 6

mock

Answer 6

to attack / ridicule by mimicry or action or speech.

Question 7

groping

Answer 7

searching around blindly

Question 8

sowed

Answer 8

implanted

Question 9

brutality

Answer 9

cruelty

Question 10

interpreter

Answer 10

a person who explains the meaning of something.

Question 11

ascertain

Answer 11

to make certain / absolutely clear.

Question 12

confirmed

Answer 12

made certain.

Question 13

censures

Answer 13

criticizes harshly.

Question 14

persuade

Answer 14

to convince someone to do or believe something.

Question 15

deceitful

Answer 15

dishonest.

Question 16

conspired

Answer 16

agreed together, to do something wrong, especially secretly.

Question 17

conspirator

Answer 17

a person who takes part in a secret plan or wrongdoing.

Question 18

treacherous

Answer 18

untrustworthy, unreliable

Question 19

conspiring

Answer 19

joining in a secret agreement to do something wrong

Question 20

prosper

Answer 20

to be successful / fortunate

Question 21

sake

Answer 21

cause, account, interest / benefit

Question 22

compassionately

Answer 22

having or showing a feeling of deep sympathy / sorrow for another

Question 23

unremitting

Answer 23

not slackening / incessant

Question 24

conceived

Answer 24

become pregnant

Question 25

fused

Answer 25

tied / bound together

Question 26

herald

Answer 26

messenger

Question 27

escort

Answer 27

a group of persons or a single person who accompanies another for protection

Question 28

sustain

Answer 28

to support / hold

Question 29

helmsman

Answer 29

person who steers a ship.

Question 30

defile

Answer 30

to make unclean / impure

Question 31

depraved

Answer 31

very evil

Question 32

fugitive

Answer 32

a runaway

Question 33

exile

Answer 33

banished from their native land

Question 34

retaliated

Answer 34

to have gotten revenge against someone

Question 35

abhorrent

Answer 35

causing / deserving hatred.