PROLOGUE & SCENE I : #1-23 Vocab. Words

Despondent

(adj.) State of extreme sadness, hopelessness, or discouragement

suppliants

(noun) Refers to a group of people who seek help or protection: people of Thebes.

Wailing

(adj.) Vocal expression of intense sadness or pain; loud, high-pitched cry expressing grief, sorrow, or distress.

blight

(noun) Curse or affliction that affects the land or the people

(verb) luxuriates

Self-indulge; excessive pleasure; manipulative extension

Oracle

(noun) a place where a person can go & ask for answers to questions and/or predict the future

Kinsman

(noun) Relative; blood relation

Harbor

(verb) Suppress feelings; keeping it to yourself

Banish

(verb) Exile; send away

Cortege

(noun) funeral procession (# of people/vehicles moving forward in orderly fashion)

Infamy

(noun) Disgrace; fame for negative reasons

Proclamation

(noun) Official announcement

Prophet

(noun) person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration

Spurn

(verb) Refuse reject with contempt (disrespect/feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration)

Shroud

(noun) cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial

Lurks

(verb) remain hidden to wait in ambush for someone or something

Quack

(noun) Fraudulent/fake pretender of medical skill

Scheming

(adj.) Suspicious plotting; sly

Scourge

(noun) a person who harasses, punishes, or causes destruction

Fathom

(verb) Grasp; comprehend; understand

sowed

(verb) Plant by scattering it on or in earth

insufferable

(adj.) too extreme to bear