Scarlet Letter Vocabulary 5
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drysdale11 on November 9, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Peal | a loud ringing |
| Penitent | showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing |
| Petty | small and insignificant |
| Petulance | unreasonable touchiness or irritability |
| Piety | devotion and reverence to God |
| Placid | peaceful, calm |
| Plaintive | mournful and expressing sorrow |
| Pompous | exaggerated show of dignity or self importance |
| Ponderous | very heavy, unwieldy from weight |
| Portal | a doorway, an especially large one |
| Portent | a sign of forewarning |
| Posterity | future generations |
| Potent | powerful, having a strong effect |
| Potentate | a monarch, a very powerful ruler |
| Prattle | meaningless sounds, babble |
| Precipice | a very steep cliff or mass of rock, the brink of something dangerous |
| Precocious | exceptionally early in development |
| Predilection | preference |
| Primeval | ancient, relating to the earliest ages |
| Prolific | abundantly fruitful, marked by great prosperity |
| Propensity | preference, natural inclination |
| Propinquity | nearness; kinship |
| Propriety | correct conduct |
| Quaint | unusual in character or appearance |
| Regimen | the regular process, procedure, or system of doing something |
| Remonstrate | to protest, to make objections |
| Replete | filled to capacity, abundantly supplied |
| Requite | to make repayment or to return |
| Revere | to honor, to regard with respect |
| Rotund | very plump, round |
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