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SAT 2/ Oedipus
| Word | Def. |
|---|---|
| distent | to swell; expand |
| fecund | fertile; productive |
| saye | a wiseman |
| vacuous | lacking idea's; intelligence |
| deride | to ridicule; make fun of |
| assail | to attack with words/force |
| benevolent | genorous; kind |
| santinize | to examine very carefully |
| historionic | overly dramatic |
| didactic | intended to teach; morally instructive |
| suppliant | a person who supplicates; petitioner; asking hunbly and earnestly |
| lamentaion | the act of lamenting or expressing grief; a cry of sorrow |
| pyre | a pile or heap of wood of other combustible material; burning heap of dead bodies |
| oracle | response given by a priestess to a person |
| augury | the art or practiceof an augur; divination; omen |
| afflictions | a condition of pain, suffering, or distress |
| defilement | to make foul, dirty, or unclean; polute; taint |
| decrepit | weakened by old age; feeble |
| regicide | a person who kills a king or is responsible for his death |
| rant | to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently |