Scarlet Letter

Question 0

Amendable

Answer 0

ADJ ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; submissive

Question 1

Abstruse

Answer 1

ADJ hard to understand: an abstruse theory

Question 2

Appellation

Answer 2

N a name, title, or designation: we used to call him Danny, but he let us know that he prefers the appellation “chopper”

Question 3

Ascetic

Answer 3

N a person who dedicates his/her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons

Question 4

Asperity

Answer 4

N harshness or sharpness in tone

Question 5

Caprice

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N a sudden, unpredictable change as of one’s mind or the weather; with the caprice of a despotic king, he alternated between kindness and cruelty

Question 6

Colloquy

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N dialogue

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Contiguous

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ADJ touching, in close contact

Question 8

Decorous

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ADJ characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, etc.

Question 9

Deportment

Answer 9

N conduct or behavior

Question 10

Discourse

Answer 10

N communication of thoughts by conversation: an intelligent discourse

Question 11

Efficacious

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ADJ capable of having the desired affect: the medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.

Question 12

Effluence

Answer 12

N something that flows out

Question 13

Enigma

Answer 13

A puzzling or inexplicable person or occurrence

Question 14

Erudition

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N knowledge acquired by study and research

Question 15

Exhort

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V to urge, caution, or advise earnestly

Question 16

Expiation

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N the means by which atonement or reparation is made: after losing the book, her act expiation was buying a new one for her teacher

Question 17

Ignominious

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ADJ marked by disgrace or dishonor

Question 18

Imbued

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V to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, etc. : the new political leader was imbued with the teaching of Mahatma Gandhi.

Question 19

Infamy

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N extremely bad reputation, public reproach, or strong condemnation as the result of a shameful, criminal, outrageous act: a time that will live in infamy

Question 20

Inimical

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ADJ harmful, negative

Question 21

Iniquity

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N gross injustice or wickedness, a wicked act

Question 22

Inscrutable

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ADJ not easily understood, mysterious

Question 23

Intrinsic

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ADJ belonging to a thing by it’s very nature: the intrinsic value of a gold ring

Question 24

Loquacity

Answer 24

N talkative