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Antigone Vocab
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10th Grade
09/26/2013

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Term

auspicious

Definition

(adj): favorable or successful

Syn: lucky, prosperous

Ant: Unfortunanate, unhappy, inoppertune 

Sentece: She is a very auspicios person, so the kids always pick her to be on their team because they think she is lucky. 

Term

compulsive

Definition

(adj) compelling; compulsory

syn: driving, impelling

Ant:  push away

Sentence: The PE teacher speach was very compulsive and he compelled to to start eating healthy.

Term
Defile
Definition

(V) to make filthy, to profane

syn: violate, molest 

ant: clean, clense, purify

Sentence: My friends seems to defile evrything i say and likes to turn everything into a dirty joke. 

Term
dirge
Definition

(N) a sad song

syn: funeral song, cry

ant: happy song 

sentence: The chorus sang a very emotional dirge at the funeral. 

Term
edict
Definition

(noun) public order, decree

sym: act, canon, command

ant: not request

sentence: The president adresses his edit about his plans for the tax refund. 

 

Term
lamentaion
Definition

(N) expression of pain

syn: wail, grumble

ant: rejoice

sentence: I expressed a great deal of lamentaion when I stepped on a nail. 

Term
lithe
Definition

(adj) flexable, bendable 

syn: agile, lean

ant: stiff, awkward

sentence: There is a yoga class at the gym to help the people get more lithe and agile. 

Term
perservere
Definition

(v) to continue on a course of action 

syn: persist, remain, persue

ant: give up, stop

Sentence: I have to perservere during swim practice so I can get faster and drop my times. 

 

Term
sated
Definition

(v) to satisfy fully

syn: gorge, overfill

ant: deprive, starve

sentence: My appetite is very sated after i eat a large breakfest. 

 

Term

transgress

 

Definition

(v) violate a law, command, or moral code

syn: disobey, exceed

ant: behave, obey

sentence: whenever I try to transgress and go aganist the law, I always end up going to jail. 

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