Scarlet Letter Vocab Part I
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32 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 demeanor | behavior toward others; outward manners |
| infamy | extreme and publicly known criminal or evil act or reputation |
| ignominy/ ignominious | deep personal humiliation or disgrace |
| haughty | blatantly and disdainfully proud |
| rankles | to cause anger, irritation or deep bitterness |
| iniquity | a wicked act or thing (sin) or gross injustice |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm |
| quietude | a state of peace and quiet |
| disquietude | uneasiness; anxiety |
| amenable | willing to follow advice or authority |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood; mysterious |
| malice | desire to cause pain, injury, or distress to another |
| melancholy | depression of spirits |
| unobtrusive | not blatant or agressive |
| obtrusive | forward; undesirably prominent; thrust out |
| vindicate | show to be right by providing justification or proof |
| exemplary | worthy of imitation, commendable; serving as a model |
| mirth | gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter |
| expiation | the act of making atonement |
| malevolence | the state of having intense ill will, spite, or hatred |
| auspicious | Attended by favorable circumstances |
| impalpable | not readily discerned by the mind/ incapable of being felt by touch |
| capricious | impulsive or unpredicatable |
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or manner |
| fervently | exhibiting or marked by great intensity of feeling |
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke; unalterable |
| intangible | not able to be perceived by touch; vague |
| impelled | to urge or drive foward by exertion of strong moral pressure |
| intrusive | tending to intrude (especially upon privacy) |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| mutability | prone or capable of change |
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