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The Scarlet Letter Vocab 1-12 Flashcards

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Edifice

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Larger size building

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Ponderous

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Of great weight

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Inauspicious

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Not promising success

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Physiognomies

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The face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character

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Antinomians

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A person who maintains that Christians are freed from the moral law by virtue of grace as set forth in the gospel

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Venerable

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Commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity

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Farthingale

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A hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman’s skirt

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Purport

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To present the appearance of being

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Iniquity

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Gross injustice or wickedness

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Ignominious

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Marked by or attended with disgrace

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Pillory

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A wooden framework erected on a post

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Contumely

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Insulting display of contempt words and actions

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Phantasmagoric

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Having a fantastic or deceptive appearance as something created by imagination

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Remonstrance

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An act or instance of disapproval

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Cloister

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A covered walk

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Visage

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The face, referred to shape, features, and expression

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Manifest

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Readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident

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Intervolutions

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To roll, wind, or involve, one within another

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Sagacity

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Acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgement

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Mien

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Air, bearing, or demeanor as showing character, feeling, etc

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Pervaded

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To become spread through out all parts of

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Type

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A number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristics

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Sagamores

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A chief or leader

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Amenable

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Ready or willing to answer, agree, or yield

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Preemptory

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To occupy land in order to establish a prior right to buy

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Misbegotten

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Unlawfully or irregularly illegitimate

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Expostulation

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The act of going against

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Lurid

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Gruesome; horrible; revolting

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Vivify

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To give life to

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Caprice

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A sudden, unpredictable change

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Anathemas

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A person or thing detested or loathed

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Reviled

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To speak abusively

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Freak

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Any abnormal phenomenon or product or unusual object

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Behest

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A command or device

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Reproof

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The act of reproving, censuring, or rebuking

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Bedizen

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To dress or adorn in a showy manor

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Imbibes

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To consume by drinking

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Mountebank

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A person who sells medicines

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Adduced

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To bring forward in argument or as evidence

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Averred

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To asset or affirm with confidence

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Appellation

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A name, title, or designation

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Consigned

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To deliver formally

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Providential

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Opportune, fortunate, or lucky

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Emossary

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A representative sent on a mission or errand

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Inimical

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Adverse in tendency or effect

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Perforce

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Of necessity

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Propagate

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To cause an organism to multiply by any process of natural reproduction

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Palliate

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To relieve or lessen without curing

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Somniferous

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Bring or inducing sleep, as drugs or influences

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Forlorn

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Desolate or unhappy

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Machinations

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An act of contrive; evil purposes

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Ethereal

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Light, airy, tenuous

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Impalpable

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Incapable of being perceived by sense of touch

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Expiation

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To atone for

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Defunct

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No longer in effect or use

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Scurrilous

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Grossly or obscenely abusive

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