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Antigone 16-36
Vocabulary (finals)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Transgress | disobey |
| Wrath | intense anger |
| Calamity | great misfortune resulting in immense loss and sorrow, human disaster |
| recoil | draw back, as in fear or disgust |
| defile | make dirty |
| abate | to lessen, decrease |
| erudite | scholarly, learned |
| probity | honest; integrity |
| saccharine | overly sweet |
| shoal | a shallow place in the water, a reef |
| zest | hearty enjoyment |
| abhor | to hate |
| cavil | to quibble, to argue |
| pique | to irritate |
| tenet | a doctrine; a belief |
| mischievous | mean; intending to cause harm |
| dubious | doubtful |
| precarious | dangerously risky |
| qualm | a sense of doubt |
| tentative | not fully worked out |
| unequivocal | leaving room for doubt |