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

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Despondent

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

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suppliants

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

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Wailing

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

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blight

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

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(verb) luxuriates

Self-indulge; excessive pleasure; manipulative extension

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Oracle

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

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Kinsman

(noun) Relative; blood relation

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Harbor

(verb) Suppress feelings; keeping it to yourself

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Banish

(verb) Exile; send away

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Cortege

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

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Infamy

(noun) Disgrace; fame for negative reasons

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Proclamation

(noun) Official announcement

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Prophet

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

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Spurn

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

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Shroud

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

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Lurks

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

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Quack

(noun) Fraudulent/fake pretender of medical skill

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Scheming

(adj.) Suspicious plotting; sly

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Scourge

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

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Fathom

(verb) Grasp; comprehend; understand

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sowed

(verb) Plant by scattering it on or in earth

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insufferable

(adj.) too extreme to bear

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