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The Scarlet Letter Vocab
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Literature
11th Grade
10/03/2012

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a man of kind and GENIAL spirit...
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warmly and pleaseantly cheerful
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...have the handling of such MALEFACTRESS as this Hester Prynne...
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Evil woman
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but greatly beyond what was allowed by the SUMPTUARY regulations of the colony
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financial
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where INIQUITY is dragged out into the sunshine
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wickedness
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at the IGNOMINIOUS letter on her breast
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discrediable, humiliating
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the scarlet letter threw a LURID gleam along the passageway
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glaringly vivid
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it soon proved its EFFICACY
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effectiveness
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without further EXPOSTULATION or delay
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earnest or kindly protest
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no genuine and steadfast PENITANCE but something doubtful
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regret, contrition
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a mystic sisterhood would CONTUMACIOUSLY assert itself
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obstinately
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in accordance with CAPRICE that ruled the moment
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whim, sudden unpredictable change
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always in a state of PRETERNATURAL activity
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outside of nature
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but was soon as IMPERIOUS to be set down again
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domineering in a haughty manner
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with a voice sweet, TREMULOUS, but powerful
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timid, fearful
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the elders, the deacons were alike IMPORTUNATE that he should make trial
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urgent or peristent in solicitation
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the VENERABLE structure of King's Chapel
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worthy of reverence
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it is AVERRED that the lattice of a chamber window was thrown open
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asserted with confidence
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INFAMY was babbling around her in the marketplace
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extremely bad reputation
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If the latter possess native SAGACITY
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soundness of judgement
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As it was impossible to assign a reason for such distrust and ABHORRENCE
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utter loathing, hatred
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In this vain show of EXPIATION
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the means by which atonement is made
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was held to be the richest and most powerful, and the most REPLETE with heavenly influences
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abundantly supplied
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intending a SCURRILOUS jest against your reverence
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grossly abusive
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him, the man of ETHEREAL attributes
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light, airy or tenuous
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the EFFLUENCE of her mother's lawless passion
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something that flows out, emanation
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the closest PROPINQUITY of the man whom he had most vilely wronged
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proximity
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which the old man was so SEDULOUS to gather
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perserving, assiduous
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the green letter has no PURPORT
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purpose
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seen in her wild and CAPRICIOUS character
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subject to whim
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with an asperity that use had never permitted to herself
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harshness
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all acquaintance with this REPINING brook
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fretting
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they were not holding a COLLOQUY that was to decide their fate
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dialogue
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for a squirrel is such a CHOLERIC and humorous little personage
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irritable, easily angered
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so great a VICISSITUDE in his life
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a change or variatino
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could transform her mobile PHYSIOGNOMY
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the outward appearance of anything offering insight into its character
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that a kiss might prove a talisman
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anything whose presence exercisers a remarkable or powerful influence on human feelings
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a good man's prayers are golden RECOMPENSE
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compensation
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the people were COUNTENANCED
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calmed
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that this very ship's crew had been guilty of DEPREDATIONS
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robbery
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with a MIEN of calmness
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air, bearing or demeanor
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it breathed passion and PATHOS
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pity, compassion
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he had made the manner of his death a PARABLE
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a statement that conveys a meaning indirectly with the use of a comparison
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