Scarlet Letter Vocab Part II
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35 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ponderous | heavy or unwieldy; laborous |
| somber | dark or gloomy |
| sagacity | wise |
| tremulously | trembling or quivering |
| quell | supress |
| invariably | never changing; always |
| defiant | bold disobedience |
| imp | small devil; mischievous child |
| eminence | fame or superiority; an important person |
| temporal | secular; of the earthly world |
| perversity | unreasonable or unacceptable behavior |
| emaciated | abnormally thin |
| inimical | hostile; harmful |
| latent | existing but not active, developed, or visible |
| infirmity | weak from age or illness |
| pestilence | a deadly epidemic disease |
| imbibed | drink; to absorb ideas |
| deleterious | harmful |
| reciprocated | to respond to an action or emotion with a similar one |
| unattainable | unable to be reached or achieved |
| innate | inborn; natural |
| imputed | credited; assigned; attributed fault to |
| vivacity | lively an high-spirited |
| despondency | feeling downcast and disheartened; hopeless |
| spectre | a ghost; a haunitng fear |
| vehemently | showing strong feeling |
| misanthropy | a disposition to dislike and mistrust other people |
| gestculating | making expressive movemnets with the hands and arms |
| obeisance | a bow or curtsy to show respect |
| blight | disease or fungus that withers plants; malignant influence |
| ludicrous | ridiculous |
| decorum | correctness and dignity of behavior |
| scornful | feeling that someone or something is worthless or dispicable |
| scruple | feeling of doubt as to whether an action is morally right |
| ominously | giving the impression that trouble is imminent |
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