The Scarlet Letter Vocabulary Set 2
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40393651 | discerning | showing good judgment and understanding | |
40393652 | manifest | evident | |
40393653 | heterogeneous | different in kind | |
40393654 | sojourn | a temporary stay | |
40393655 | iniquity | gross injustice or wickedness | |
40393656 | sagacity | ability to perceive keenly | |
40393657 | exhort | to give warnings or advice, urge strongly | |
40393658 | insubordination | disobedience | |
40393659 | rebuke | sharp disapproval | |
40393660 | amenable | ready to yield or submit, tractable, agreeable | |
40393661 | peremptory | decisive or final | |
40393662 | alchemy | method for transmuting base metals into gold | |
40393663 | efficacy | effectiveness | |
40393664 | tempestuous | turbulent | |
40393665 | delude | deceive | |
40393666 | deleterious | harmful; dangerous | |
40393667 | intimated | suggested | |
40393668 | lurid | shining with a red glow of fire as seen through smoke or cloud; causing shock or horror | |
40393669 | sable | black | |
40393670 | progenitors | ancestors in the direct line, forefathers | |
40393671 | emolument | compensation for employment | |
40393672 | subsistence | state of existing | |
40393673 | ascetic | a person who practices self-denial for religious reasons | |
40393674 | ingenuity | cleverness | |
40393675 | superfluous | excessive | |
40393676 | penance | act of self-abasement or devotion to show sorrow or repentance for sin | |
40393677 | incredulity | being skeptical | |
40393678 | abase | to degrade, to humiliate | |
40393679 | affinity | a likeness, a natural relationship | |
40393680 | alacrity | prompt and cheerful response |