English Vocab For The Scarlet Letter
Terms
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- Augured
- Predicted/Fortold
- Contumely
- humiliating treatment
- Earnest
- Sincere
- Exhorts
- speak strongly/persuading
- Ignominious
- Humiliating or shameful
- Infamy
- Extremely bad reputation/public reproach
- Intervolutions
- coiled up
- Malfactress
- female lawbreaker
- Mountebanks
- Pretender
- Phantasmagoric
- series of illusions
- Physiognomies
- faces/facial expressions
- Pillory
- a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the neck and hands; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn
- Remonstrance
- Verbal objection
- Requital
- Return payment
- Sable
- Black in color
- Scouraged
- a wip used for punishing
- Sepulchers
- a tomb; grave
- Talisman
- Object that protects one from evil
- Tremulous
- Trembling; quivering