Scarlet Letter 5-8 Vocab Flashcards

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Hard to pin down or identify

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Intangible

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1
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Of an obscure nature

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Inscrutable

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2
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A complete and impressive array

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Panoply

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3
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To receive into the mind and retain

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Imbibe

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5
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Bearing in abundance especially offspring

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Prolific

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6
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Emotionally hardened

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Callous

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7
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A sudden desire

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Caprice

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8
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Intended to entrap

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Insidious

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9
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Add details to clarify the meaning of

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Expatiate

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10
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Get by special effort

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Procure

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11
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Moral perversion, impairment of moral principles

It’s present ___, and future destiny

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Depravity

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12
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To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

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Aver

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13
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Contrary to your interests or welfare

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Adverse

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14
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Adroitness in using the hands

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Dexterity

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14
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Having or showing arrogant superiority

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Imperious

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15
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Incapable of being explained or accounted for

It was a look so intelligent, yet _____ perverse

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Inexplicable

15
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Invulnerable to fear or intimidation

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Dauntless

16
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Still in existence, not extinct

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Extant

19
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Willfully obstinate, stubbornly obedient

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Contumacious

20
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Sudden unforeseen crisis that requires immediate action

the _____ of this new country

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Exigency

21
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A formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication

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Anathema

21
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Having secret or hidden meaning

with strange and seemingly _____ figures and diagrams

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Cabalistic

23
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Practicing great self denial

…of the plainest and most ____ description, for herself

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Ascetic

23
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Polish and make shiny

So highly ____ as to glow

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Burnish