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antigone vocabulary
for reading
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| accord | to be in agreement or harmony; agree |
| appease | to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe |
| baseness | morally low; without estimable personal qualities; dishonorable; meanspirited; selfish; cowardly. |
| beguile | to charm or divert |
| belies | to show to be false; contradict: |
| bequeath | to hand down; pass on. |
| chastened | to restrain; subdue: |
| chastened | to restrain; subdue: |
| defile | to make foul, dirty, or unclean; pollute; taint; debase. |
| defile | to make foul, dirty, or unclean; pollute; taint; debase. |
| desolate | having the feeling of being abandoned by friends or by hope; forlorn. |
| desolate | having the feeling of being abandoned by friends or by hope; forlorn. |
| edifying | to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift: |
| giddy | frivolous and lighthearted; impulsive; flighty or affected with vertigo; dizzy. |
| guiled | to deceive, trick, or cheat |
| heedful | taking heed; attentive; mindful; thoughtful; careful: |
| ignoble | of low grade or quality; inferior. |
| impelled | to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action. |
| ingenuity | cleverness or skillfulness of conception or design: |
| inviolate | free from violation, injury, desecration, or outrage. |
| marred | to disfigure, deface, or scar |
| opprobrious | outrageously disgraceful or shameful: |
| piety | reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations: |
| portent | an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous. |
| rending | to tear apart, split, or divide: |
| repressed | subjected to, affected by, or characteristic of psychological repression : |
| rue | to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: or to wish that (something) had never been done, taken place, .. |
| sovereign | a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler. |
| summoned | to call for the presence of, as by command, message, or signal; call. |
| tarry | to remain or stay, as in a place; sojourn |
| temperate | moderate or self-restrained; not extreme in opinion, statement, etc.: |
| tempestuous | characterized by or subject to tempests : |
| transcends | to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: |
| trifling | of small value, cost, or amount |
| unwittingly | not knowing; unaware; ignorant; oblivious; unconscious: accident |
| utter | to give audible expression to; speak or pronounce: |
| warrant | something that serves to give reliable or formal assurance of something; guarantee, pledge, or security. |
| wheedling | to endeavor to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts: |
| woe | grievous distress, affliction, or trouble: |
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charlid81
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