eng 3 scarlet letter vocab
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- edifice
- building, esp a large massive structure
- discerning
- showing insight and understanding
- insidious
- treacherous, harmful but enticing
- gesticulation
- the act of making gestures
- ignominy
- deep personal humiliation and disgrace
- inauspicious
- unfavorable
- venerable
- deserving to be regarded with reverential respect or admiring deference
- magistrate
- an official entrusted with administration of the laws
- iniquity
- wickedness (wicked act or thing)
- visage
- the face, countenance, appearance of a person
- abstruse
- hard or difficult to understand
- appellation
- identifying by a name or title
- deleterious
- causing moral or physical injury; harmful
- importunate
- persistent in pressing demands or requests
- latent
- to lie hidden
- propensity
- often intense natural inclination or preference
- efficacy
- power to produce an effect
- stigmatized
- to identify in opprobrious terms (brings disgrace)
- capricious
- whimsical; governed by a sudden change of action or mind w/out adequate reason
- discern
- to detect visually; to detect w/ senses other than vision, to comprehend visually
- uncouth
- not known or not familiar to one; rare
- accost
- to approach and speak to boldly and aggressively- as with a demand
- effervescence
- the showing of high spirits or excitement
- vex
- to bring trouble, distress, worry to
- loquacity
- very talkative, garrulous
- satiate
- to satisfy fully
- probity
- complete and confirmed integrity
- vehemently
- vigorous, energetic
- surmise
- to infer without sufficient evidence
- obscure
- indistinctly perceived