Antigone Vocabulary
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| anarchist | a person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power
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| impassively | showing no sign of feeling or emotion
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| insolence | rude and disrespectful behavior
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| lamentation | the expression of grief or sorrow
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| auspcious | conducive to success
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| contempt | the feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn
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| defile | to make unclean or impure
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| perverse | a person whose actions show the desire to behave in an unreasonable or unacceptable way
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| revernce | deep respect for someone or something
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| sate | to fully satisfy a desire
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| sententious | stuck up
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| transgression | an act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct
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| prologue | a song sung by a Greek chorus as they enter
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| ode | elaborate lyrical poetry made up of a strophe, antistrophe, and an epode
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| strophe | (lit. "a turning")
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| antistrophe | answers the strope
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| harmatia | a tragic flaw leading to a downfall
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| huberis | excessive pride leading to a downfall
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| epode | concludes the ode
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| paean | a song of praise
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| exodos | the exit scence of a Greek drama
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| anagnorisis | a moment when a character makes a recognition or discovery of truth
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| catharsis | a release of emotional tension
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| deus ex machina | (lit. a god from a machine) a sudden solution to an impossible situation
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| peripeteia | a sudden change in fortune or circumstances
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