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Oedipus Rex - CSE - 2nd
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10th Grade
11/29/2010

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liquidate
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to settle or pay
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innumerable
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countless
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plaintive
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expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful
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beseeching
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to beg eagerly for
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invalid
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a person who is too sick or weak to care for himself or herself
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supplication
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an act or instance of supplicating
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compunction
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any uneasiness or hesitation about the rightness of an action.
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expedient
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tending to promote some proposed or desired object; fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances
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decrepit
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worn out by long use; dilapidated
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disdain
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to think unworthy of notice, response, etc.; consider beneath oneself
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venerate
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to regard or treat with reverence; revere.
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primal
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first; original
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tragic hero
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a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy
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fatal flaw
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hubris
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excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance
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