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Lit: Oedipus Vocab II
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Literature
11th Grade
10/08/2009

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Fecundity
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The state of being fertile (or fecund), fruitful in offspring or vegetation
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Indomitable
Definition
Incapable of being dominated, unconquerable
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Cerulean
Definition
Sky blue
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Duplicity
Definition
Lit: double-ness; deceit, deception, (think: two-faced)
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Obdurate
Definition
Stubborn, unyielding
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Dotage
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Senility, second childhood
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Imprecations
Definition
Curses (close to "Execrations")
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Arrant
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Being notoriously without moderation
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Cavil
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To raise trivial and frivolous objection
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Vituperate
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To berate, condemn, use abusive language
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Extol
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To praise highly
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Presage
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A warning or indication of the future
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Supernal
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Heavenly (as in "the heavens", universal, night sky)
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Clemency/Clement
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1. The idea of being merciful 2. Mild or kind
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Adamantine
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Firm, unyielding (like a diamond)
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Heinous
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Hatefully or shockingly evil
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Choleric
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Easily moved to excessive anger
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Immitigable
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Incapable of being mitigated (made less harsh or severe)
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Exculpation
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Act of freeing someone from guilt (Think: mea culpa)
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Exemplar
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One that serves as an example or ideal
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Apotheosis
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Elevation to divine status (Ex. Death of Oedipus --> Raised as demigod)
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Eumenides
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The kindly ones (because they know there are some exceptions to rules)
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Erinyes
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Furies [would get you if you committed 1/3 crimes]
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Aeschylus
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Father of Greek drama; wrote about Orestia (story of Orestes)
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"Sanctuary"
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If you find a religious place to save yourself from what's after you, the people from there must help you
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Theseus
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1. Important hero 2. Universally regarded as positive 3. Noble, honorable 4. Trustworthy, so Oedipus could have faith in him
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Talisman
Definition
Good luck
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Attica
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Athens
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"...and all the lot I bore in misery, not through any choice of mine..."
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Oedipus
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"I shall reverence not repudiate his gift"
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Theseus
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"I shan't touch your man. She is mine."
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Creon
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"And now I'll tell you father why I came: I'm driven out, an exile from my land."
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Polyneices
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"Liar!"
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Oedipus
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"If there's any truth in prophecy the oracles have said that victory lies with those who win you to their side."
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Polyneices
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"I come with a gift: this is my battered body."
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Oedipus
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"Who ever heard of joy or love by force?"
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Oedipus
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"We are banished you and I, both us are beggars."
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Polyneices
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"Nevertheless you ought to know that Creon's on his way to see if he can use you."
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Ismene
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"Because, dear children, he himself has charged me not to let a single being approach these precincts"
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Theseus
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"It was not easy, children, that I know, and yet one little word can change all pain. That word is LOVE."
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Oedipus
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"I pronounce that this neglect of you convicts me as the most delinquent thing on earth"
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Polyneices
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"If that's the kind of triumph you want, trampling over friends and country, those whose mandate, I though King, am trying to carry out -- then have that triumph
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Creon
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