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tom oedipus
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| hubris | pride or arogance |
| reversal of fortune | turn of luck |
| catharsis | the purging of or realeving of emotional tensions |
| recognition | to give credit to someone or something |
| dignity | pride and character |
| remedy | a medicine or something of healing purpose |
| avenge | to make a stand in the name of someone |
| oracle | a prophet or someone with other worldly power here for great purpose |
| wretchedness | in poor or pituful circumstances, characterized by the causing of misury |
| arrogance | an additude of superiority |
| grief | pain or suffering |
| inquiry | the act of being curios or wanting to know |
| exile | to be thrown out of your country or a place you call home |
| treason | to go against athourity |
| ponder | to wonder or thnik about |
| vanity | excesive pride in one's apperance |
| blasphemy | going against god |
| reverent | feeling or showing deep and sloenm respect |
| discredited | to deprive of good repute |
| vague | very broad or open ended not percise or very clear |