GR 10 L22 Vocabulary Quiz

My curse on him whoe'er unrived. The waif's fell _____ and my life revived!

• fetters

• abject

Come hither, deign to touch an ______ wretch;/ Draw near and fear not; I myself must bear/ The load of guilt that none but I can share.

• destitute

• abject

The monstrous offspring of a womb ______,/Co-mate of him who gendered me, and child./Was ever man before afflicted thus,/ Like Oedipus.

• derision

• defiled

Ah me! what words to accost him can I find?/What cause has he to trust me? In the past/I have been proved his ______ enemy.

• rancorous

• providence

May ______ deal with thee kindlier/Than it has dealt with me!

• abject

• Providence

Where'er ye go to feast or festival,/No merrymaking will it prove for you,/But oft ______ in tears ye will return.

• abashed

• destitute

And when ye come to marriageable years,/Where's the bold wooers who will jeopardize/To take unto himself such_______/ As to my children's children still must cling,/

For what of infamy is lacking here?

• disrepute

• overwhelm

O leave them not to wander poor, unwed,/Thy kin, nor let them share my low estate./O pity them so young, and but for thee/All ________.

• destitute

• abashed

Look ye, countrymen and Thebans, this is Oedipus the great,/He who knew the Sphinx's riddle and was mightiest in our state./Who of all our townsmen gazed not on his fame with envious eyes?/Now, in what a sea of troubles sunk and ______ he lies!

• overwhelmed

• fetter