Scarlet Letter Vocab 1

Question 1

n. burial or grave

Answer 1

sepulchre

Question 2

adj. vanishing; fleeting; passing away

Answer 2

evanescent

Question 3

n. the face; facial features; indicative of character

Answer 3

physiognomy

Question 4

n. disgrace, dishonor, public shame, a loss of reputation

Answer 4

ignominy

Question 5

n. perspective

Answer 5

mien

Question 6

adj. ghostly relating to spirits

Answer 6

spectral

Question 7

adj. ghost-like, illusionary

Answer 7

phantasmagoric

Question 8

n. the act of reasoning with a person in opposition to his conduct; dissuasion

Answer 8

expostulation

Question 9

n. the doctrine, study and practice of chemistry

Answer 9

alchemy

Question 10

adj. glad; ready; to wish or desire

Answer 10

fain

Question 11

an ancestor in direct line; forefather

Answer 11

progenitor

Question 12

common, one of common people, lower class

Answer 12

plebian

Question 13

aid, help, assistance

Answer 13

succor

Question 14

a curse, anything devoted to evil

Answer 14

anathemas

Question 15

whim, fancy

Answer 15

caprice

Question 16

to adorn; especially to adorn in a cheap showy manner

Answer 16

bedizen

Question 17

a stock of drugs

Answer 17

pharmacopeia

Question 18

to propose; to offer for consideration; to put forward

Answer 18

propound

Question 19

hidden; concealed

Answer 19

abstruse

Question 20

delicate; airy; light; heavenly

Answer 20

ethereal

Question 21

to walk in sleep, to wander in a trance-like state

Answer 21

somnambulate

Question 22

an officer of the church

Answer 22

sexton

Question 23

kind; generous

Answer 23

benign

Question 24

constant, steady

Answer 24

sedulous

Question 25

destructive

Answer 25

deleterious

Question 26

a wood nymph, a nymph living in trees

Answer 26

dryad

Question 27

variations occurring irregularly in the course of something

Answer 27

vicissitude

Question 28

ill will, malice

Answer 28

malignity

Question 29

an unfavorable remark, adverse criticism, reproof, blame

Answer 29

animadversion

Question 30

suffering, pity, sorrow, compassion

Answer 30

pathos

Question 31

adj. bilious; easily irritated; angry

Answer 31

choleric