English 10X Scarlet Letter Vocab.
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- mien
- dignified manner or conduct
- sagacity
- ability to make good judgments
- evanescent
- Of short duration; passing away quickly.
- peradventure
- Perhaps; perchance.
- talisman
- An object marked with magic signs and believed to confer on its bearer supernatural powers or protection.
- preternaturally
- Out of or being beyond the normal course of nature; differing from the natural.
- prolixity
- Tediously prolonged; wordy
- foolscap
- a size of paper used especially in Britain
- alchemy
- seemingly magical power or process of transmuting
- nepenthe
- Something that induces forgetfulness of sorrow or eases pain
- pristine
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Remaining in a pure state; uncorrupted by civilization.
Remaining free from dirt or decay; clean - profane
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Marked by contempt or irreverence for what is sacred.
Nonreligious in subject matter, form, or use - lethe
- A condition of forgetfulness; oblivion.
- ascetic
- A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion.
- cabalistic
- Having a secret or hidden meaning; occult:
- importunate
- Troublesomely urgent or persistent in requesting; pressingly entreating
- etherealized
- To make or become Highly refined; delicate
- sominiferous
- Inducing sleep; soporific.
- efficacious
- Producing or capable of producing a desired effect
- impalpable
- Difficult to perceive or grasp by the mind.
- somnambulism
- walking by a person who is asleep
- tremulous
- Timid or fearful; timorous
- erudite
- Characterized by erudition; learned
- portent
- An indication of something important or calamitous about to occur; an omen
- despotic
- A person who wields power oppressively; a tyrant
- petulant
- Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevish
- hornbook
- An early primer consisting of a single page protected by a transparent sheet of horn, formerly used in teaching children to read.
- propinquity
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Proximity; nearness.
Kinship.
Similarity in nature - ignominy
- Great personal dishonor or humiliation
- sedulous
- Persevering and constant in effort or application; assiduous.
- scrofula
- A form of tuberculosis affecting the lymph nodes, especially of the neck,
- contiguity
- the attribute of being so near as to be touching
- physiogonomy
- The art of judging human character from facial features
- cankered
- Ulceration of the mouth and lips
- colloquy
- A conversation, especially a formal one
- latitude
- Freedom from normal restraints, limitations, or regulations
- dryad
- divinity presiding over forests and trees; a wood nymph.
- irrefragable
- Impossible to refute or controvert; indisputable
- morions
- A black or blackish brown form of smoky quartz.
- probity
- Complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness
- animadversion
- Strong criticism.
- manifold
- Many and varied; of many kinds
- plebian
- Unrefined or coarse in nature or manner; common or vulgar
- Templars
- A lawyer or student of law having chambers in the Temple in London.
- pillory
- wooden framework on a post, with holes for the head and hands, in which offenders were formerly locked to be exposed to public scorn as punishment
- lurid
- Causing shock or horror; gruesome.
- pathos
- A quality, as of an experience or a work of art, that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow.
- gules
- The color red, indicated on a blazon by vertical lines.
- escutcheon
- An ornamental or protective plate
- antipathy
- A strong feeling of aversion or repugnance
- necromancer
- The practice of supposedly communicating with the spirits of the dead in order to predict the future.
- My milkshake brings all the WHAT to the WHERE
- BOYS TO THE YARD
- and their WHAT are better than WHOSE
- LIVES are better than YOURS
- I am going to get a what on the test
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