Scarlet Letter 2
Terms
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- depravity
- Moral corruption or degradation
- sensibility
- The ability to feel or perceive
- celibacy
- Abstinence from sexual intercourse, especially by reason of religious vows
- propagate
- To make widely known; publicize
- odious
- Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure
- forlorn
- Wretched or pitiful in appearance or condition
- efficacious
- Producing or capable of producing a desired effect
- ethereal
- Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible
- expiation
- The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty
- scurrilous
- Given to the use of vulgar, coarse, or abusive language; foul-mouthed
- transfigured
- To exalt or glorify
- bane
- Fatal injury or ruin
- petulant
- Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevish
- asperity
- Harshness of manner; ill temper or irritability
- misanthropy
- Hatred or mistrust of humankind
- machinations
- A crafty scheme or cunning design for the accomplishment of a sinister end
- effluence
- Something that flows out or forth; an emanation
- choleric
- Easily angered; bad-tempered
- Mollified
- To calm in temper or feeling; soothe
- Vicissitude
- A change or variation
- preternatural
- Out of or being beyond the normal course of nature; differing from the natural
- conjectural
- Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful
- nugatory
- Of little or no importance; trifling
- repudiate
- To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust
- gules
- The color red, indicated on a blazon by vertical lines