Scarlet Letter Lexicon Set 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Estranged | (adv.) 1) To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2) To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations |
| Etherealized | (adv.) 1) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible 2) highly refined, delicate; not of this world, spiritual |
| Expiation | (noun) the act of making amends or reparation for; atonement |
| Farthingale | (noun) A support, such as a hoop, worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally from the waist, used by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries. |
| Foundered | (verb, past) to sink below the surface, to cave in; to fail utterly, collapse; to stumble |
| Frisked | (verb, past) 1) (intr.) To move about briskly and playfully; frolic. 2) (trans.) To search (a person) for something concealed, especially a weapon, by passing the hands quickly over clothes or through pockets |
| Ignominy | (noun) great personal dishonor or humiliation; shameful or disgraceful action, conduct or character |
| Impediment | (noun) something that impedes; a hindrance or obstruction |
| Impute | (verb) to assign as a characteristic; to attribute the fault or responsibility to; to relate to a particular cause or source |
| Inauspicious | (adjective) not favorable, not auspicious |
| Incongruity | (noun) the state or quality of lack of congruence |
| Inference | (noun) the act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true; the act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence |
| Iniquity | (noun) gross immorality or injustice; wickedness |
| Inscrutable | (adjective) difficult to fathom or understand; impenetrable |
| Intrinsic | (adjective) of or relating to the essential nature of a thing; inherent |
| Lurid | (adjective) causing shock or horror, gruesome; glowing or shining with the glare of fire; sallow or pallid in color; marked by sensationalism |
| Malefactress | (noun) a female who has committed a crime; a criminal, evildoer |
| Malice | (noun) a desire to harm others to see others suffer; extreme ill will or spite |
| Malignant | (adjective) showing great disposition to do evil; highly injurious, pernicious; threatening to life |
| Manifest | (adjective, noun, verb) clearly apparent to the sight or understanding, obvious; to show or demonstrate plainly, reveal; list of cargo |
| Mien | (noun) bearing or manner, especially as it reveals an inner state of mind; an appearance or aspect |
| Mutability | (noun) capable of or subject to change or alteration; prone to frequent change, inconstant |
| Necromancer | (noun) a practitioner of communicating with the spirits; someone who practices black magic, sorcerer |
| Nugatory | (adjective) of little or no importance; having no force, invalid, trifling |
| Penal | (adjective) subject to punishment, legally punishable; serving as or constituting a means or place of punishment |
| Phantasmagoric | (adjective) a fantastic sequence of haphazardly associative imagery; a constantly changing scene composed of numerous elements |
| Physiognomy | (noun) the art of judging human character from facial features; facial features, especially when regarded as revealing character |
| Pillory | (noun, verb) A wooden framework on a post, with holes for the head and hands, in which offenders were formerly locked to be exposed to public scorn as punishment; to put in a pillory as punishment |
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