Scarlet Letter Vocabulary
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- unobtrusive
- inconspicuous, modest
- iniquity
- wickedness
- inimical
- hostile, threatening
- vivacious
- hard to kill, long-lived
- colloquy
- a serious conversation, a discussion
- disdainful
- proudly aloof, scornful
- stigma
- a mark or sign of disgrace
- evoked
- called forth
- vicissitude
- an unforeseeable change
- tremulous
- quivering, trembling
- remonstrance
- an objection, pearl of protest
- averred
- declared to be true
- mien
- a persons manner or bearing
- pristine
- pure, unspoiled
- imbued
- saturated
- impelled
- forced, compelled
- lurid
- sensational, shocking
- heterodox
- unorthodox
- emaciated
- abnormally lean, as from an illness
- visage
- face, facial features
- inferred
- draws a conclusion
- effcacy
- effectiveness
- scurrilous
- coarse, vulgar
- effectual
- likely to produce a desired result
- transitory
- fleeting, of short duration
- ignominious
- shameful, humiliating
- reviled
- used abusive language toward
- solace
- consolation, comfort
- ignominy
- shame, disgrace
- loquacity
- talkativeness
- introspection
- examination of ones own thoughts and feelings
- auspicious
- favorable, promising well for the future
- feigned
- pretended
- mollified
- soothed, pacified
- inured
- accustomed to something painful or hard
- behest
- bidding
- deluded
- deceived, fooled
- caprice
- a whim, a sudden change of mind
- beneficence
- doing good, kindness
- venerable
- impressive because of age or reputation
- adduced
- stated as reasons
- propensity
- inclination, tendency
- veneration
- profound respect
- probity
- integrity
- rankles
- causes pain
- preternaturally
- supernaturally
- capricious
- changeable, flighty
- appalled
- filled with dismay, shocked
- deleterious
- harmful to health
- indubitably
- unquestionably
- apprehension
- an anxious feeling about the future
- inscrutable
- mysterious, incapable of being understood
- intimated
- hinted at
- transgressions
- branches of the law, sins
- amenable
- responsive, willing to submit
- lamentation
- an outward expression of grief
- asperity
- sharpness
- peremptory
- undeniable, final, absolute
- sagacity
- wisdom
- malicious
- spiteful, intentionally harmful
- inauspicious
- not favorable, not promising
- repugnance
- extreme distaste
- mutability
- changeableness
- imperatively
- in a demanding way
- exhortation
- a strong urging or pleading
- palliate
- to make seem less serious or offensive
- provincial
- showing the benign influence of God
- haughty
- proud in a disdainful way, arrogant
- demeanor
- manner
- exemplary
- 1. serving as a model, worth imitating, 2. serving as a warning
- despondency
- depression