Scarlet letter pt. 2 Flashcards

228010557	Acuteness	Sharpness of perception	0
228010558	Labyrinth	Like a maze; very convulted and intricate	1
228010559	Auspicious	Favorable	2
228010560	Imperious	Extremely overbearing	3
228010561	Wan	Very pale & sickly	4
228010562	Fugitive	A person who is elusive or hard to find; wandering	5
228010563	Extant	Still in existence	6
228010564	Quaint	Unusual in character or appearance	7
228010565	Tome	A book that is a large volume	8
228010566	Gauntless	Very thin; emaciated; angular	9
228010567	Burnished	made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing	10
228010568	Exigencies	urgent situations, pressing needs	11
228010569	Vista	a distant view seen through an opening	12
228010570	Depravity	moral corruption	13
228010571	Unobtrusive	not readily noticeable, inconspicuous	14
228010572	Tarry	(v.) to delay leaving; to linger, wait; to remain or stay for a while	15
228010573	Affinity	a natural attraction or feeling of kinship	16
228010574	Despondency	depression, dejection	17
228010575	Enumerated	to mention separately as if in counting; name one by one; specify, as in a list	18
228010576	Incurious	uninterested, lacking normal curiosity	19
228010577	Erudite	scholarly	20
228010578	Incantations	ritual recitation of verbal charms or spells to produce a magic effect	21
228010579	Ominous	threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments	22
228010580	Abase	lower; degrade; humiliate; make humble; make (oneself) lose self-respect	23
228010581	Palliate	lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of	24
228010582	Odious	deserving hate or contempt	25
228010583	Implicit	implied though not directly expressed	26
228010584	Antipathy	a strong dislike, hostile feeling	27
228010585	Abstruse	difficult to understand	28
228010586	Ethereal	characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; heavenly	29
228010587	Import	Relative importance. Significance	30
228010588	Inextricable	not able to be disentangled	31
228010589	Expiation	the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)	32
228010590	Venerable	profoundly honored	33
228010591	Zenith	The highest point overhead; peak	34
228010592	Credibility	the quality of being believable or trustworthy	35
228010593	Impute	To blame or to charge	36
228010594	Malevolence	ill will or evil intentions	37
231550664	replete	filled to capacity; abundantly supplied	38
231550665	portent	a sign or forewarning	39
231550666	calamity	a serious event causing distress or misfortune	40
231550667	benign	not causing harm; of gentle disposition; beneficial	41
231550668	foliage	leaves of a plant, leafage	42
231550669	austerity	strict;stern; unadorned; ascetic	43
231550670	obviated	makes unnecessary; prevents as a result of anticipating	44
231550671	precipice	a very steep cliff or mass of rock; the brink of something dangerous	45
231550672	derisively	scoffing at; mockery; ridicule	46
231550673	propinquity	nearness;kinship	47
231550674	blighted	destroyed or caused by decline or decay	48
231550675	sedulous	very diligent; accomplishing with painstaking care	49
231550676	deleterious	harmful, injurious, dangeroud	50
231550677	incongruity	nonconformity, disagreement, incompatibility	51
231550678	capricious	changing suddenly, fickle	52
231550679	petulant	unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered	53
231550680	precocity	exceptionally early in development or occurrence	54
231550681	endowing	to provide with income or property, to supply with a talent or a quality	55
231550682	primeval	ancient, relating to the earliest ages	56
231550683	scintillating	sparkling, shining, or flashing	57
231550684	loquacity	very talkative	58
231550685	lamentation	the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief	59
231550686	misanthropy	hatred of mankind	60
231550687	consecration	to make or declare sacred; blessing of something to make it holy	61
231550688	forebode	v. To be an omen or warning sign of, especially of evil.	62
231550689	sentinel	one who keeps guard as a sentry	63
231550690	buoy	keep afloat, raise the spirits of, encourage	64
231550691	solace	to comfort or to cheer	65
231550692	prattle	meaningless sounds, babble	66
231550693	estranged	separated; alienated	67
231550694	mollified	appeased, calmed down	68
231550695	pallor	extreme paleness usually relating to the face	69
231550696	alloy	a substance that is a mixture of metals	70
231550697	entreat	plead; ask earnestly	71
231550698	vicissitude	a passing from one thing to another, change of luck	72
231550699	duplicity	double-dealing, hypocrisy	73
231550700	decorum	appropriate conduct, correct and proper behavior	74
231550701	potentate	a monarch, very powerful ruler, sovereign	75
231550702	gratuitous	given freely, unwarranted	76
231550703	jocularity	jocular-jesting or joking jocularity-fun characterized by humor	77
231550704	posterity	future generations, all descendants of a person	78
231550705	effervescence	showing high spirits	79
231550706	pomp	a showy or dignified display pompous-exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance; bombastic	80
231550707	indefatigable	tireless, incapable of being fatigued	81
231550708	audacity	excessive boldness, rashness, daring	82