Scarlet Letter 1-4 Flashcards
Augur
Indicate by signs
Ex: “would have augured some awful business”
Inauspicious
Contrary to interests or welfare
Ex: “from that inauspicious portal”
Amenable
Disposed or willing to comply
Ex: “Pyrnne shall here after be more amenable to just authority than you may have found her”
Peremptory
Not allowing contradiction or refusal
Ex:”made it of peremptory authority”
Indubitably
Manner that can’t be doubted
“Could not indubitably be drawn”
Sumptuary
Controlling personal behavior
“Allowed by the sumptuary regulations”
Brazen
Unrestrained by convention
Bold and without shame
“This brazen hussy”
Iniquity
Morally objectionable behavior
“Where iniquity is dragged out into the sunlight”
Flagrant
Obviously bad or offensive
“No outrage more flagrant than to forbid the culprit”
Impediment
Something that delays action
“Laid the impediment of a gentle remonstrance”
Visage
Face
“Scholar like visage, with eyes dim”
Exhort
Force or impel in an indicated direction
“To exhort her to repentance and to confession”
Tremulous
(Of the voice) quivering as from weakness of fear
“A mouth which, unless he forcibly compressed it, was apt to be tremulous”
Lurid
Shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke
“The Scarlett letter threw a lurid gleam along the dark passage way”
Requital
An act of requiting; returning in mind
“A recipe that an Indian taught me, in requital of some lessons of my own”
