Scarlet Letter Vocab 2
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thegonch123 on September 20, 2010
Subjects:
ap english literature and composition
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39 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 expatiate | to speak or write at length |
| essay | to make an attempt at |
| appellation | a name or title the act of naming |
| adduce | to bring forward for formal consideration |
| sunder | to break |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent or persistent |
| commodiousness | spaciousness plenty of room |
| inimical | harmful |
| penitent | feeling remorseful |
| somniferous | sleep-inducing |
| odious | arousing hatred |
| antipathy | a strong feeling of opposition or aversion |
| abstruse | not easily understood |
| efficacious | effective |
| ethereal | highly refined delicate |
| omniscience | the quality of being all-knowing |
| expiation | atonement |
| decorous | marked by appropriateness of behavior |
| erudite | learned scholarly |
| scurrilous | expressed in or containing vulgar or abusive language |
| effluence | something that flows out or forth |
| obviate | to prevent something |
| propinquity | nearness proximity |
| sedulous | diligent |
| precocious | exhibiting or makerd by early development or maturity |
| talisman | something having apparently magical power |
| asperity | roughness or harshness |
| loquacity | extremely talkative |
| contiguity | sharing a boundary |
| mollify | to lessin in intensity |
| alloy | to debase by adding an inferior element |
| vicissitude | a change or variation a turn |
| obeisance | an attidute of deference or respect |
| impeity | undutifulness |
| potentate | one who has the power and position to rule over others |
| recompense | make amends for something, as damage or loss |
| probity | integrity honesty |
| centrigugal | moving or directed away from a center or axis |
| zenith | the point on the celestial sphere that is directly above the observer |
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