Scarlet Letter 5-8 Vocab

Question 0

Hard to pin down or identify

Answer 0

Intangible

Question 1

Of an obscure nature

Answer 1

Inscrutable

Question 2

A complete and impressive array

Answer 2

Panoply

Question 3

To receive into the mind and retain

Answer 3

Imbibe

Question 5

Bearing in abundance especially offspring

Answer 5

Prolific

Question 6

Emotionally hardened

Answer 6

Callous

Question 7

A sudden desire

Answer 7

Caprice

Question 8

Intended to entrap

Answer 8

Insidious

Question 9

Add details to clarify the meaning of

Answer 9

Expatiate

Question 10

Get by special effort

Answer 10

Procure

Question 11

Moral perversion, impairment of moral principles

It’s present ___, and future destiny

Answer 11

Depravity

Question 12

To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

Answer 12

Aver

Question 13

Contrary to your interests or welfare

Answer 13

Adverse

Question 14

Adroitness in using the hands

Answer 14

Dexterity

Question 14

Having or showing arrogant superiority

Answer 14

Imperious

Question 15

Incapable of being explained or accounted for

It was a look so intelligent, yet _____ perverse

Answer 15

Inexplicable

Question 15

Invulnerable to fear or intimidation

Answer 15

Dauntless

Question 16

Still in existence, not extinct

Answer 16

Extant

Question 19

Willfully obstinate, stubbornly obedient

Answer 19

Contumacious

Question 20

Sudden unforeseen crisis that requires immediate action

the _____ of this new country

Answer 20

Exigency

Question 21

A formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication

Answer 21

Anathema

Question 21

Having secret or hidden meaning

with strange and seemingly _____ figures and diagrams

Answer 21

Cabalistic

Question 23

Practicing great self denial

…of the plainest and most ____ description, for herself

Answer 23

Ascetic

Question 23

Polish and make shiny

So highly ____ as to glow

Answer 23

Burnish