Antigone Vocab
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- Vicissitudes
- change from one state to another
- Flagrantly
- very noticeable or evident
- Doddering
- shaking or trembling from old age
- Charagas
- the chorus leader
- Reprisal
- an act of retaliation
- Caparisoned
- ornamental covering for a horse, for its saddle
- Humartia
- a character's flow or error
- Reprobate
- an unprincipled person
- Panoplies
- a suit of armor
- Strophe
- the part of the choral ode when the chorus moves from right to left
- Episode
- a section between two songs in Greek Tragedy
- Bacchanalian
- a drunken feast or orgy
- Injunction
- a court order that stops a person from invading the legal right of someone
- Parados
- the elevated earth behind a structure as protection from attack from the back
- Prologue
- a seperate introduction of a book or musical work
- Stasiman
- a song of the chorus, without interruption of people talking
- Edict
- an order issued by the authorities
- Firebrand
- a person who causes drama, or a troublemaker
- Martyrdom
- the state of being a martyr
- Promulgation
- to make something known
- Sentry
- a guard or watch
- Sovereign
- a king, queen, or supreme ruler
- Vaunts
- boast or praise
- Foment
- instigate or stir up
- Unsepulchered
- to unbury, or not bury
- Flout
- to not care about, or disregard
- Trollop
- a woman who was said to be promiscuous
- Chorus
- a group of singers who talk about what is happening in the book
- Ephemeral
- lasting only a short time
- Sedition
- acting or speaking ina way to make people rebel against authority or monarch
- Carrion
- the decaying flesh of dead animals
- Homage
- special honor or respect shown publicly
- Resplendent
- shiny or dazzling in appearance
- Dithering
- to be nervous while you are doing something
- Choral ode
- an ode sung by the chorus
- Hubris
- excessive pride or self-confidence
- Insufferable
- intolerable, unbearable
- Exodus
- a bunch of people leaving
- Mattock
- a tool used for digging
- Lackey
- a servant
- Antistrophe
- the part of the choral ode when they are answering a previous strophe
- Connoisseurs
- a person with expert knowledge about something
- Interdict
- to prohibit someone from doing something
- Skene
- the background where performances are given
- Fulminant
- something happening suddenly with great intensity