Vocabulary: Week 3 (Oedipus)

an event regarded as a portent of good or evil

• Omen

• Smite

• Edict

• Defile

to firmly fix or establish

• Ingrained

• Duplicity

• Dispatch

• Deliverance

to send off

• Dispatch

• Besiege

• Duplicity

• Smite

rescue, recovery or preservation from loss or danger

• Deliverance

• Omen

• Ingrained

• Smite

inflict a heavy blow upon, with a hand, tool, or weapon

• Smite

• Decrepit

• Edict

• Duplicity

a decree or proclamation issued by an authority and having the force of law

• Edict

• Omen

• Defile

• Dispatch

weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use

• Decrepit

• Duplicity

• Defile

• Deliverance

to surround with hostile forces

• Besiege

• Ingrained

• Omen

• Smite

deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech

• Duplicity

• Deliverance

• Defile

• Dispatch

to make filthy or dirty; pollute

• Defile

• Decrepit

• Edict

• Omen