The Scarlet Letter Vocab 1-12

Question 0

Edifice

Answer 0

Larger size building

Question 1

Ponderous

Answer 1

Of great weight

Question 2

Inauspicious

Answer 2

Not promising success

Question 3

Physiognomies

Answer 3

The face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character

Question 4

Antinomians

Answer 4

A person who maintains that Christians are freed from the moral law by virtue of grace as set forth in the gospel

Question 5

Venerable

Answer 5

Commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity

Question 6

Farthingale

Answer 6

A hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman’s skirt

Question 7

Purport

Answer 7

To present the appearance of being

Question 8

Iniquity

Answer 8

Gross injustice or wickedness

Question 9

Ignominious

Answer 9

Marked by or attended with disgrace

Question 10

Pillory

Answer 10

A wooden framework erected on a post

Question 11

Contumely

Answer 11

Insulting display of contempt words and actions

Question 12

Phantasmagoric

Answer 12

Having a fantastic or deceptive appearance as something created by imagination

Question 13

Remonstrance

Answer 13

An act or instance of disapproval

Question 14

Cloister

Answer 14

A covered walk

Question 15

Visage

Answer 15

The face, referred to shape, features, and expression

Question 16

Manifest

Answer 16

Readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident

Question 17

Intervolutions

Answer 17

To roll, wind, or involve, one within another

Question 18

Sagacity

Answer 18

Acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgement

Question 19

Mien

Answer 19

Air, bearing, or demeanor as showing character, feeling, etc

Question 20

Pervaded

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To become spread through out all parts of

Question 21

Type

Answer 21

A number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristics

Question 22

Sagamores

Answer 22

A chief or leader

Question 23

Amenable

Answer 23

Ready or willing to answer, agree, or yield

Question 24

Preemptory

Answer 24

To occupy land in order to establish a prior right to buy

Question 25

Misbegotten

Answer 25

Unlawfully or irregularly illegitimate

Question 26

Expostulation

Answer 26

The act of going against

Question 27

Lurid

Answer 27

Gruesome; horrible; revolting

Question 28

Vivify

Answer 28

To give life to

Question 29

Caprice

Answer 29

A sudden, unpredictable change

Question 30

Anathemas

Answer 30

A person or thing detested or loathed

Question 31

Reviled

Answer 31

To speak abusively

Question 32

Freak

Answer 32

Any abnormal phenomenon or product or unusual object

Question 33

Behest

Answer 33

A command or device

Question 34

Reproof

Answer 34

The act of reproving, censuring, or rebuking

Question 35

Bedizen

Answer 35

To dress or adorn in a showy manor

Question 36

Imbibes

Answer 36

To consume by drinking

Question 37

Mountebank

Answer 37

A person who sells medicines

Question 38

Adduced

Answer 38

To bring forward in argument or as evidence

Question 39

Averred

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To asset or affirm with confidence

Question 40

Appellation

Answer 40

A name, title, or designation

Question 41

Consigned

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To deliver formally

Question 42

Providential

Answer 42

Opportune, fortunate, or lucky

Question 43

Emossary

Answer 43

A representative sent on a mission or errand

Question 44

Inimical

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Adverse in tendency or effect

Question 45

Perforce

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Of necessity

Question 46

Propagate

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To cause an organism to multiply by any process of natural reproduction

Question 47

Palliate

Answer 47

To relieve or lessen without curing

Question 48

Somniferous

Answer 48

Bring or inducing sleep, as drugs or influences

Question 49

Forlorn

Answer 49

Desolate or unhappy

Question 50

Machinations

Answer 50

An act of contrive; evil purposes

Question 51

Ethereal

Answer 51

Light, airy, tenuous

Question 52

Impalpable

Answer 52

Incapable of being perceived by sense of touch

Question 53

Expiation

Answer 53

To atone for

Question 54

Defunct

Answer 54

No longer in effect or use

Question 55

Scurrilous

Answer 55

Grossly or obscenely abusive