Scarlet Letter Vocabulary
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97910970 | congenial | agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character | |
97910971 | heterodox | not in accordance with established or accepted doctrines or opinions | |
97910972 | inauspicious | ill-omened; unfavorable | |
97910973 | venerable | commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity | |
97910974 | haughty | disdainfully proud; snobbish | |
97910975 | ignominy | disgrace; dishonor | |
97910976 | iniquity | gross injustice or wickedness | |
97910977 | sagacity | eminence | |
97910978 | eminence | high station, rank or repute | |
97910979 | amenable | ready or willing to answer or act | |
97910980 | tempestuous | tumultuous; turbulent | |
97910981 | infamy | extremely bad reputation, public reproach, or strong condemnation as the result of a shameful criminal, or outrageous act | |
97910982 | ingenuity | the quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful | |
97910983 | superfluous | being more than is sufficient or required; excessive | |
97910984 | insidious | intended to entrap or beguile | |
97910985 | caprice | a sudden, unpredictable change | |
97910986 | enmity | a feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will; animosity; antagonism | |
97910987 | pallid | pale; faint or deficient in color | |
97910988 | melancholy | a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression | |
97910989 | expatiating | to enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in description or discussion | |
97910990 | retribution | requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil | |
97910991 | fervent | having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, etc. | |
97910992 | vigil | a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe | |
97910993 | ominous | portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious | |
97910994 | inimical | adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful | |
97910995 | palliate | to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate | |
97910996 | diabolical | devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked | |
97910997 | ethereal | light, airy, or tenuous | |
97910998 | odious | deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable | |
97910999 | erudite | characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly | |
97911000 | impute | to attribute or ascribe | |
97911001 | scurrilous | grossly or obscenely abusive | |
97911002 | abase | to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble; degrade | |
97911003 | implore | to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat | |
97911004 | propinquity | nearness in place; proximity | |
97911005 | acrid | sharp or biting to the taste or smell; bitterly pungent; irritating to the eyes, notes, etc. | |
97911006 | mollify | to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease | |
97911007 | vivacious | lively; animated; gay | |
97911008 | misanthropy | hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind | |
97911009 | vestige | a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence | |
97911010 | choleric | extremely irritable or easiy arranged; irascible | |
97911011 | trammel | a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint | |
97911012 | mutability | liable or subject to change or alteration | |
97911013 | vicissitude | a change or variation occuring in the course of something | |
97911014 | consternation | a sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion; dismay | |
97911015 | mirthful | joyous; gay; jolly | |
97911016 | necromancy | a method of divination through alleged communication with the dead | |
97911017 | apotheosize | to deify; glorify | |
97911018 | escutcheon | a shield or shieldlike surface on which a coat of arms is depicted | |
97911019 | penitence | the state of being penitent; regret for one's wrongdoing or sinning; contrition; repentance |