Scarlet Letter vocab from all chapters
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- physognomies
- facial features
- scourged
- whip/punish/criticize
- ignominy
- disgrace/dishonor
- pillory
- device usually holding prisoners head/hands
- contumely
- insulting remark
- phantasmagoric
- fantastic, dreamlike imagery
- remonstrace
- argument
- exhort
- urge
- tremulous
- vibrating, quievering, trembling
- infamy
- bad name, extremely bad thing
- sable
- black, dark colored
- talisman
- anything having magical prioperties
- emaciated
- thin especially from disease
- emissary
- ambassador
- presentiments
- feeling that something bad's gonna happen
- impalpable
- hard to understand, hard to be touched
- lurid
- horrifying/shocking
- scurrilous
- wicked
- derisvely
- mockingly scornful
- deleterious
- harmful to health
- malignant
- harmful
- satiating
- satisfy desire
- extenuation
- diminish the seriousness of
- inscrutable
- mysterious
- expiating
- atone
- preternatural
- supernatural
- vicissitide
- unexpected change
- necromancy
- prediction using spirits
- stigma
- sign of social unacceptability
- gules
- red colored