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Antigone Scene 1 Vocabulary
Directions: For the following, determine word meaning by using context clues. Circle or underline the
clues in the sentence that assist you in finding meaning. Once complete, look up the words in a
dictionary, and match the correct definition to the correct vocabulary word.
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“…By right of kinship to the Princes dead/I claim and hold the throne and sovereignty.”
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“…By fear of consequence, that man I hold,/And ever held, the basest of the base.”
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“But for Polyneices, the miscreant exile who returned/Minded in flames and ashes to blot out.”
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“What is your news? Why this despondency?
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The corpse was hidden, not interred in earth,/But strewn with dust…”
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Is it they, I warrant who suborned my guards/By bribes…”
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Who came to fire their hallowed sanctuaries/To sack their shrines, to desolate their land?
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What an inveterate babbler! Go!
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Who overcomes waves driven by the south wind,/To extend his dominion across the seas.”
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The maid Antigone./Hapless child of hapless Oedipus.
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_____ Sovereignty
_____Base
_____Miscreant
_____Despondency
_____Interred
_____Suborned
_____Hallowed
_____Inveterate
_____Dominion
_____Hapless
a. settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling or the like
b. buried
c. having supreme power or authority
d. holy, sacred
e. of low character or questionable morals
f. unlucky; unfortunate
g. rule, control
h. holding a false or unorthodox religious belief
i. state of being depressed in spirit or gloomy
j. to bribe unlawfully or commit a crime