10 Vocabulary 1 VOCABULARY FOR SCENE ONE AND ODE ONE  - 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.  “In this auspicious dawn of his reign/What are the new complexities/That shifting Fate has  woven for him?”       ______________________________________________________________________________ 2.   “. . .  I say to you at the very outset that I have nothing but contempt for the kind of Governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State. . . ” ______________________________________________________________________________ 3.   “I do not mean that; the sentries have been appointed.” ______________________________________________________________________________ 4.  “A comprehensive defense!  More effective, perhaps,/If I knew its purpose.” _____________________________________________________________________________ 5.   “There have been those who have whispered together,/Stiff-necked anarchists, putting their  heads together,/Scheming against me in alleys.” ______________________________________________________________________________ 6.   “There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.” ______________________________________________________________________________ 7.  “. . . the stormgray sea/Yields to his prow, the huge crests bear him high . . . ” _____________________________________________________________________________ 8.   “The lightboned birds and beasts that cling to cover,/The lithe fish lighting their reaches of  dim water,/All are taken, tamed in the net of his mind . . .” _____________________________________________________________________________ 9.  “. . . his blunt yoke has broken/The sultry shoulders of the mountain bull.” Antigone Vocabulary Worksheet Scene 1 and Ode 1 Continued 10.  “And his the skill that deflects the arrows of snow,/The spears of winter rain . . .” _____________________________________________________________________________ Part II: Determining the Meaning Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions ___   1.  auspicious       A.  very humid and hot ___   2.  contempt       B.  attended by favorable circumstances ___   3.  sentries       C.  to undermine the confidence or morale of; dishearten ___   4.  comprehensive    D. the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior ___   5.  anarchists       E.  marked by or showing extensive understanding ___   6.  demoralizing      F.  turns aside or cause to turn aside ___   7.  prow       G.  those who reject of all forms of coercive control and authority ___   8.  lithe       H. soldiers posted to prevent the passage of unauthorized persons ___   9.  sultry       I.  the forward part of a ship's hull ___ 10.  deflects       J.  marked by effortless grace