Oedipus Vocabulary

supreme power or authority

• abhorrent

• malevolent

• sovereignty

• harboured

spiteful, showing ill will

• sapient

• abhorrent

• sovereignty

• malevolent

wicked, profane

• impious

• implore

• sapient

• ominous

impossible to stop or prevent

• malevolent

• inexorable

• harboured

• insolence

to convince someone to lie or commit a crime

• suborn

• implore

• ominous

• deflect

to beg earnestly for

• sapient

• impious

• ominous

• implore

say or recite with little rise and fall of the pitch of the voice

• prophecy

• intoned

• implore

• ominous

rude or disrespectful behavior

• abhorrent

• malevolent

• inexorable

• insolence

greedy; very hungry; eager for satisfaction

• enigmatic

• ominous

• ravenous

• unremitting

evil fame or reputation

• solemn

• sapient

• futile

• infamy