11 Vocabulary 2 VOCABULARY FOR SCENE TWO AND ODE TWO - Antigone Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues   Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean on the lines provided. 1.  “A storm of dust roared up from the earth, and the sky/Went out, the plain vanished with all  its trees/In the stinging dark.  We closed our eyes and endured it.”      ______________________________________________________________________________ 2.  “Tell me, tell me briefly;/Had you heard my proclamation touching this matter?” ______________________________________________________________________________ 3.  “And yet you dared defy the law.” ______________________________________________________________________________ 4.  “Your edict, King, was strong,/But all your strength is weakness itself against/The immortal unrecorded laws of God.” _____________________________________________________________________________ 5.   “This girl is guilty of a double insolence,/Breaking the given laws and boasting of it.” ______________________________________________________________________________ 6.   “. . . generation from generation/Takes the compulsive rage of the enemy god.” ______________________________________________________________________________ 7.  “What mortal arrogance/Transcends the wrath of Zeus?” _____________________________________________________________________________ 8.   “The straying dreams of men/May bring them ghosts of joy;/ . . . as they drowse . . .” _____________________________________________________________________________ 9.  “. . . the waking embers burn them;/Or they walk with fixed eyes, as blind men walk.” Antigone Vocabulary Worksheet Scene 2 and Ode 2 Continued 10.  Fortunate is the man who has never tasted God’s vengeance!” _____________________________________________________________________________ Part II: Determining the Meaning Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions ___   1.  endured       A.  infliction of punishment in return for a wrong committed ___   2.  proclamation       B.  a formal command ___   3.  defy       C.  to pass beyond the limits of something ___   4.  edict       D.  rudeness or disrespect ___   5.  insolence       E.  bore with tolerance ___   6.  compulsive       F.  to refuse to submit to or cooperate with ___   7.  transcends       G.  having the capacity to exert a strong, irresistible force on ___   8.  drowse       H.  a small, glowing piece of coal or wood, as in a dying fire ___   9.  embers       I.   to be half-asleep ___ 10.  vengeance       J.  an official formal public announcement