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| 7514351481 | Abstruse | difficult to comprehend, obscure \\ in context: "There are scholars... who had spent more years in acquiring abstruse lore," | 0 | |
| 7514351482 | Alacrity | brisk cheerful readiness \\ in context: "nothing could exceed the vigilance and alacrity with which they proceeded to lock" | 1 | |
| 7514351483 | Antipathy | deep dislike, settled aversion \\ in context: "earthly stock of hatred and antipathy transmuted into golden love." | 2 | |
| 7514351484 | Ascetic | characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, often for religious reasons \\ in context: "Hester sought... of the plainest and most ascetic description, for herself" | 3 | |
| 7514351485 | Austerity | extreme plainness, simplicity in appearance; OR sternness or severity of manner or attitude. \\ in context: "It might be partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress" | 4 | |
| 7514351486 | Beguile | to attract, deceive, or trick someone; to lead by deception; OR pass time \\ in context: "Danforth: Now hear me, and beguile yourselves no more." (Crucible) | 5 | |
| 7514351487 | Capricious | sudden changes in character or mood \\ in context: "earnestness that was seldom seen in her wild and capricious character." | 6 | |
| 7514351488 | Deleterious | causing harm or damage; harmful often in subtle way \\ in context: " that every wholesome growth should be converted into something deleterious and malignant at his touch?" | 7 | |
| 7514351489 | Dissemble | to hide under false appearance; to feign, pretend; conceal one's true motives \\ in context: "The only truth that continued to give Mr. Dimmesdale a real existence on this earth was the anguish in his inmost soul, and the undissembled expression of it in his aspect." | 8 | |
| 7514351490 | Effervescence | liveliness, exhilaration, vivacity, enthusiasm \\ in context: "This effervescence made her flit with a bird-like movement, rather than walk by her mother's side." | 9 | |
| 7514351491 | Enmity | deep hatred, ill will, hostility \\ in context: "All this enmity and passion had Pearl inherited... out of Hester's heart." | 10 | |
| 7514351492 | Erudite | characterized by great knowledge or learning gained through studying \\ in context: "it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind" | 11 | |
| 7514351493 | Esoteric | (intimate or exclusive knowledge) intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people \\ in context: "the merchant valued him, not less than we, his esoteric friends" | 12 | |
| 7514351494 | Exigency | urgency, immediate needs \\ in context: "the exigencies of this new country had transformed Gov. Bellingham" | 13 | |
| 7514351495 | Expiation | acts of making amends or reparations for wrongs/guilt; atonement \\ in context: "while standing on the scaffold, in this vain show of expiation, Mr. Dimmesdale was overcome with a great horror of mind" | 14 | |
| 7514351496 | Ignominy | disgrace; dishonor; public contempt \\ in context: "a halo of misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped" & "the ignominious letter on her breast" | 15 | |
| 7514351497 | Impunity | exemption from punishment or freedom from consequences \\ in context: "this was a life which could not, with impunity, be lived too long" | 16 | |
| 7514351498 | Incantations | the chanting or uttering of words to create some power \\ in context: "enlarged his medical attainments by joining in the incantations of the savage priests" | 17 | |
| 7514351499 | Inclement | unpleasant cold and wet weather \\ in context: "in their appropriate rooms if wintry or inclement weathers" | 18 | |
| 7514351500 | Indefatigable | incapable of being tired/fatigued \\ in context: 'to-day was doubly indefatigable in its tip-toe dance" | 19 | |
| 7514351501 | Indictment | formal charge, an accusation of a crime \\ in context: "Elizabeth, quietly, factually: Fie were not hanged. Fie would not answer aye or nay to his indictment; for if he denied the charge they'd hang him surely, and auction out his property. So he stand mute, and died Christian under the law. And so his sons will have his farm. It is the law, for he could not be condemned a wizard without he answer the indictment, aye or nay. " (Crucible) | 20 | |
| 7514351502 | Inextricable | hopelessly intricate, involved, or perplexing \\ in context: "which intertwined, in the same inextricable knot" | 21 | |
| 7514351503 | Iniquity | immoral, gross injustice; wicked act, sin \\ in context: "on the righteous colony of the Massachusetts, where iniquity is dragged out into the sunshine!" & "that the partner of her iniquity should not at least, stand on the scaffold by her side." | 22 | |
| 7514351504 | Inveterate | unlikely to change, established in manner, habit \\ in context: "a goose.. which proved so inveterately tough" | 23 | |
| 7514351505 | Jocular | characterized by joking, jesting; humorous \\ in context: "All such professors of the several branches of jocularity would have been sternly repressed" | 24 | |
| 7514351506 | Malefactress | a woman who violates the law or does evil \\ in context: "we women... should have the handling of such malefactresses as this Hester Prynne." | 25 | |
| 7514351507 | Misanthrope | a person who hates mankind, avoids human society \\ in context: "There had been a period when Hester was less alive to this consideration; or, perhaps, in the misanthropy of her own trouble, she left the minister to bear what she might picture to herself as a more tolerable doom." | 26 | |
| 7514351508 | Probity | strong morals principles; honesty, decency \\ in context: "a buccaneer... a man of probity and piety on land" | 27 | |
| 7514351509 | Palliate | make less severe, unpleasant; alleviate \\ in context: "there has been nothing in the physician's words to excuse of palliate." | 28 | |
| 7514351510 | Penitence | action or feeling of regret for one's wrongdoing; repentance \\ in context: "it is to be feared, no genuine and steadfast penitence, but something doubtful, something that might be deeply wrong beneath." | 29 | |
| 7514351511 | Predilection | preference, favorable; bias in favor \\ in context: "I began now.. to be pretty acutely sensible with which party my predilections lay" | 30 | |
| 7514351512 | Prolific | causing abundant growth, generation \\ in context: "they... might be prolific of the storm and whirlwind" | 31 | |
| 7514351513 | Propensity | an intense natural inclination, tendency, preference \\ in context: "Then, it is true, the propensity of human nature to tell the very worst of itself" & "in endowing the child with this marked propensity" | 32 | |
| 7514351514 | Propinquity | proximity; being close to something of someone \\ in context: "constant shadow of my presence, the closest propinquity of the man whom he had most vilely wronged" | 33 | |
| 7514351515 | Replete | filled, well-supplied \\ in context: "he preached a discourse... the most replete of heavenly influences" | 34 | |
| 7514351516 | Tome | a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book \\ in context: "Here, on a cushion, lay a folio tome, probably of the Chronicles of England" | 35 | |
| 7514351517 | Vicissitude | a change or variation in event or situation (favorable or unfavorable) \\ in context: "So great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as real. But there was Hester," | 36 | |
| 7514351518 | Vitiate | to destroy or impair the quality/efficiency of; to impair; spoil \\ in context: "he... neither sacrificed nor vitiated any spiritual endowment by devoting all his energies" | 37 | |
| 7514351519 | Wan | showing or suggesting illness; pale \\ in context: "which must have given a wan and pallid aspect to cheeks of a fainter bloom" | 38 | |
| 7514351520 | Zenith | point in sky or celestial sphere above \\ in context: "the whole expanse of sky from zenith to horizon" & "the minister, looking upward to the zenith" | 39 |
