98254282 | Estranged | (adv.) 1) To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2) To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations | |
98254283 | Etherealized | (adv.) 1) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible 2) highly refined, delicate; not of this world, spiritual | |
98254284 | Expiation | (noun) the act of making amends or reparation for; atonement | |
98254285 | 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. | |
98254286 | Foundered | (verb, past) to sink below the surface, to cave in; to fail utterly, collapse; to stumble | |
98254287 | 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 | |
98254288 | Ignominy | (noun) great personal dishonor or humiliation; shameful or disgraceful action, conduct or character | |
98254289 | Impediment | (noun) something that impedes; a hindrance or obstruction | |
98254290 | Impute | (verb) to assign as a characteristic; to attribute the fault or responsibility to; to relate to a particular cause or source | |
98254291 | Inauspicious | (adjective) not favorable, not auspicious | |
98254292 | Incongruity | (noun) the state or quality of lack of congruence | |
98254293 | 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 | |
98254294 | Iniquity | (noun) gross immorality or injustice; wickedness | |
98254295 | Inscrutable | (adjective) difficult to fathom or understand; impenetrable | |
98254296 | Intrinsic | (adjective) of or relating to the essential nature of a thing; inherent | |
98254297 | Lurid | (adjective) causing shock or horror, gruesome; glowing or shining with the glare of fire; sallow or pallid in color; marked by sensationalism | |
98254298 | Malefactress | (noun) a female who has committed a crime; a criminal, evildoer | |
98254299 | Malice | (noun) a desire to harm others to see others suffer; extreme ill will or spite | |
98254300 | Malignant | (adjective) showing great disposition to do evil; highly injurious, pernicious; threatening to life | |
98254301 | Manifest | (adjective, noun, verb) clearly apparent to the sight or understanding, obvious; to show or demonstrate plainly, reveal; list of cargo | |
98254302 | Mien | (noun) bearing or manner, especially as it reveals an inner state of mind; an appearance or aspect | |
98254303 | Mutability | (noun) capable of or subject to change or alteration; prone to frequent change, inconstant | |
98254304 | Necromancer | (noun) a practitioner of communicating with the spirits; someone who practices black magic, sorcerer | |
98254305 | Nugatory | (adjective) of little or no importance; having no force, invalid, trifling | |
98254306 | Penal | (adjective) subject to punishment, legally punishable; serving as or constituting a means or place of punishment | |
98254307 | Phantasmagoric | (adjective) a fantastic sequence of haphazardly associative imagery; a constantly changing scene composed of numerous elements | |
98254308 | Physiognomy | (noun) the art of judging human character from facial features; facial features, especially when regarded as revealing character | |
98254309 | 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 |
Scarlet Letter Lexicon Set 2
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