Oedipus Vocabulary

Question 1

Abhor

Answer 1

To dislike someone or something very much

Question 2

Amiable

Answer 2

Friendly and pleasant

Question 3

Buttress

Answer 3

A structure built against a wall in order to strengthen or support it

Question 4

Chaplets

Answer 4

A wreath to be worn on the head; a string of beads

Question 5

Concussive

Answer 5

Having an injury to the brain

Question 6

Consummation

Answer 6

Complete in every detail; perfect

Question 7

Epithalamion

Answer 7

A song or poem in honor of someone (typically a bride and bridegroom)

Question 8

Extenuation

Answer 8

The act of making something less serious

Question 9

Impious

Answer 9

Feeling or showing lack of respect for a deity

Question 10

Laurel

Answer 10

An evergreen tree or bush with shiny or pointed leaves

Question 11

Libations

Answer 11

A liquid that is poured out to honor a diety

Question 12

Littoral

Answer 12

Having a coast

Question 13

Nightingales

Answer 13

A small brown European bird that sings beautiful songs

Question 14

Obdurate

Answer 14

Refusing to do what other people want

Question 15

Portents

Answer 15

A sign or warning that somethings usually bad or unpleasant is going to happen

Question 16

Prerogative

Answer 16

A right or privilege

Question 17

Profanation

Answer 17

The act of treating something with great disrespect

Question 18

Prudence

Answer 18

Careful and good judgement that allows someone to avoid danger or risks

Question 19

Reprisal

Answer 19

Something that is done to hurt or punish someone who has hurt you; to regain something

Question 20

Wheedle

Answer 20

To influence or entice by soft words or flattery

Question 21

Brazen

Answer 21

Performing something in an open shocking without shame or embarrassment

Question 22

Contagion

Answer 22

The process by which a disease in transmitted

Question 23

Execrable

Answer 23

Very bad

Question 24

Flinty

Answer 24

Not soft or gentle in manner or appearance; very serious quality or manner

Question 25

Foreboding

Answer 25

A feeling that something bad is going to happen

Question 26

Haughtiness

Answer 26

State of showing the insulting attitude of thinking you are better or more important than others

Question 27

Incarnate

Answer 27

Having a human body

Question 28

Lamentation

Answer 28

An expression of great sorrow or deep sadness

Question 29

Lustration

Answer 29

The act of emotionally purifying

Question 30

Maundering

Answer 30

To talk for a long time

Question 31

Marauding

Answer 31

To roam and raid in search of plunder

Question 32

Parricide

Answer 32

One that murders a father, mother or close relative

Question 33

Pasturage

Answer 33

A large land area where animals feed on grass

Question 34

Prequisites

Answer 34

A privilege, gain or profit that is expected or promised

Question 35

Pilgrimage

Answer 35

A journey to a holy, special or unusual place

Question 36

Shroud

Answer 36

A cloth used to wrap a body; something that covers or hides

Question 37

Sepulchre

Answer 37

A burial place

Question 38

Suppliant

Answer 38

A persons who asks for something in a respectful manner from a powerful person or diety

Question 39

Supplication

Answer 39

The act of praying or asking earnestly to a god or important figure

Question 40

Vigil

Answer 40

An event where a person or group stays and prays, meditates, or quietly waits