Oedipus Rex: Vocabulary

A priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods in classical antiquity.

• banish

• oracle

• dirge

• pestilence

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

To expel or send away from a place as an official punishment.

• augury

• malign

• banish

• heresy

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

A person making a humble plea to someone in power or authority.

• suppliant

• defilement

• expedient

• respite

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A lament for the dead, especially one forming part of a funeral rite.

• exercrable

• obdurate

• augury

• dirge

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A prediction of what will happen in the future.

• calamity

• prophecy

• enigma

• tyranny

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.

• pestilence

• harbinger

• ominous

• clairvoyant

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The practice of interpreting omens; a sign of what will happen in the future.

• malign

• reproach

• augury

• obstinate

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The action of spoiling or desecrating something sacred.

• oracle

• impiety

• heresy

• defilement

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The state of being unknown, inconspicuous, or unimportant.

• banish

• obscurity

• reverence

• execrable

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A means of attaining an end, especially one that is convenient but considered improper or immoral.

• expedient

• calamity

• impiety

• respite

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4