Rappacini's Daughter & Young Goodman Brown Vocab. [part 2]
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13 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 grovel | to humble oneself or act in a lowly manner |
| pestilence | a deadly or epidemic disease |
| innumerable | incapable of being counted |
| scruples | a moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions |
| mirth | happiness or jollity |
| zenith | the highest point or state |
| lurid | gruesome; horrible |
| festoon | a string or chain of flowers or ribbon suspended in a curve between two points |
| impious | not pious or religious |
| fervid | heated or excited in spirit |
| catechizing | to instruct orally by means of questions and answers, esp. in Christian doctrine |
| exult | to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy |
| virulent | actively poisonous |
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