Vocabulary that appears in the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex (Green and Lattimore translation) and is being tested in Ms. Caponetti's English 9 Honors class.
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| 279832934 | lamentation | NOUN an act or instance of mourning in a demonstrative way | |
| 279832935 | pestilence | NOUN something destructive or pernicious | |
| 279832936 | suppliant | NOUN one who makes a humble request | |
| 279832937 | garland | NOUN a circular or spiral arrangement or intertwined material (as in flowers or leaves) | |
| 279832938 | fruitful | ADJECTIVE abundantly productive | |
| 279832939 | ingrained | ADJECTIVE forming a part of the essence of innermost being | |
| 279832940 | expiation | NOUN the act of making atonement | |
| 279832941 | hearsay | NOUN information unproven by evidence; rumors | |
| 279832942 | pang | NOUN a sharp attack of mental anguish | |
| 279832943 | ordinance | NOUN an authoritative decree or order | |
| 279832944 | sluggard | NOUN a habitually lazy person | |
| 279832945 | balk | VERB to stop short and refuse to proceed | |
| 279832946 | complotter | NOUN a conspirator or fellow plotter of a deed | |
| 279832947 | proclamation | NOUN an official formal public announcement | |
| 279832948 | calumny | NOUN a misinterpretation maliciously calculated to harm another's reputation | |
| 279832949 | sovereignty | NOUN supreme political power over a body | |
| 279832950 | contrivance | NOUN an artificial arrangement or development | |
| 279832951 | suborn | VERB to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing | |
| 279832952 | augur | NOUN one held to foretell events by omens | |
| 279832953 | compliance | VERB the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion | |
| 279832954 | obstinacy | ADJECTIVE the quality or state of being stubborn | |
| 279832955 | manifestly | ADVERB perceiving something a ready way, by the senses, and especially via vision | |
| 279832956 | despotic | ADJECTIVE of or relating to a tyrant | |
| 279832957 | knavish | ADJECTIVE relating to characteristics of a clever, deceitful fellow | |
| 279832958 | conjecture | NOUN a conclusion deduced by surmise or guesswork | |
| 279832959 | herald | VERB to signal the approach of; foreshadow | |
| 279832960 | rankle | VERB to cause anger, irritation, or deep bitterness | |
| 279832961 | disquiet | VERB to take away peace or tranquility of | |
| 279832962 | tax | VERB to make onerous or rigorous demands on | |
| 279832963 | goad | NOUN something that urges or stimulates to action | |
| 279832964 | yoke | VERB to become joined or linked in a negative way | |
| 279832965 | malignant | ADJECTIVE evil in nature, influence, or effect | |
| 279832966 | surfeit | NOUN an over-abundant supply or excess | |
| 279832967 | glutted | VERB filled (especially with food) to gratification | |
| 279832968 | vagrant | NOUN one who has no established residence and wanders idly without lawful means of support | |
| 279832969 | fetter | VERB to restrain from motion, action, or progress | |
| 279832970 | beneficent | ADJECTIVE doing or producing good; especially: performing acts of kindness and charity | |
| 279832971 | gratify | VERB to be a source of or give pleasure or satisfaction to | |
| 279832972 | purge | VERB to clear of guilt | |
| 279832973 | contagion | NOUN a corrupting influence, quality, or nature; poision |
