| Term | Definition |
|---|
| baseness | the quality of lacking higher values; vileness, servility, unworthiness |
| belie | to contradict, to five a false impression |
| bequeath | to hand down, to give or to leave in a will |
| desolate | deserted, without inhabitants, barren |
| gravity | seriousness, importance; earnestness, sedateness, sobriety, solemnity, staidnesss |
| grievous | characterized by severe suffering or sorrow, serious or grave |
| haughty | arrogant, excessively proud and vain; disdainful, high-handed, insolent, lordly, supercilious |
| infernal | relating to hell; hellish, diabolical, fiendish |
| ingenuity | cleverness, inventiveness, resourcefulness; adroitness, cunning, deftness, dexterity |
| lament | to mourn or to express sorrow in a demonstrative manner; bemoan, bewail, deplore |
| malady | a disease or unwholesome condition |
| muse | to ponder; meditate, ruminate |
| perishable | likely to decay or to spoil |
| piety | devotion and reverence to God; loyal, dutiful devotion |
| plumage | feathers of a bird |
| portal | a doorway (sepecially a large one) |
| temperate | exercising self-control |
| trifling | not significant, frivolous |
| vexation | discomfort or distress |
| wheedle | to try to convince by flattery, to coax, to cajole |
| repulse | driving back; repelling |
| sated | filled, satisfied |
| swagger | bold, arrogant strut |
| senile | mentally impaired (old age) |
| comprehensive | including all of the relevant details |
| senetiously | in a trite and mortalizing way |
| lithe | flexible and grateful |
| insolence | bold disrespect |
| waver | show doubt or uncertainty about what to do |
| deference | courteous respect |
| malicious | mean-spirited, spiteful people |
| somberly | earnestly and solemnly; in a gloomy manner |
| vigil | purposeful watching and staying awake |
| transgress | disobey |
| wrath | intense anger |
| calamity | great misfortune resulting in immense loss and sorrow; disaster |
| recoils | draws back, as in fear or disgust |
| defile | make dirty |
| catharsis | emotional cleansing |
| strophe | part of the ode that the chorus chants as it moves from right to left across the stage |
| antistrophe | part of the ode chanted as the chorus moves back across the stage from left to right |
| ode | each scene is followed by an ode; served both to separate one scene from the next, since there were no curtains, and also to provide the chorus |
| epode | final stanza of the ode, following the strophe and antistrophe |
| paean | hymn in praise of a god (Dionysus) in whose honor the Greeks performed their plays |
| exodus | final or exit scene |
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