The Scarlet Letter
Fall 2005
Vocabulary
Chapter One “The Prison Door”
throng
edifice
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utopia
inauspicious
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Chapter Two “The Market-Place”
betokened
inference
heterodox
rotundity
iniquity
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autumnal
haughty
sumptuary
ignominy
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Chapter Three “The Recognition”
eloquence
swoon
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tremulous
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Chapter 4 “The Interview”
sustenance
alchemy
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peremptory
retribution
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Chapter 5 “Hester at Her Needle”
lurid
infamy
inquisitorial
sable
contumaciously
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progenitors
plebeian
emolument
insidious
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Chapter 6 “Pearl”
dexterity
prolific
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imbibe
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Chapter 7 “The Governor’s Hall”
ancestral
caprice
imperious
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cabalistic
pestilence
tome
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Chapter 8 “The Elf-child and the Minister”
Lord of Misrule
depravity
expatiate
emaciated
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genial
albeit
physic
catechism
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Chapter 9 “The Leech”
leech
orthodox
appellation
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Chapter 10 “The Leech and his Patient”
delving
ecstasy
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pharmacopoeia
nether
commodiousness
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inimical
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Chapter 11 “The Interior of a Heart”
machinations
efficacious
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preternatural
scourge
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Chapter 12 “The Minister’s Vigil”
expiation
torpid
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venerable
pestilence
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Chapter 13 “Another View of Hester”
pristine
despotic
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irksomeness
tribunal
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Chapter 14 “Hester and the Physician”
propinquity
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Chapter 15 “Hester and Pearl”
sere
acrid
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ascertain
talisman
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Chapter 16 “A Forest Walk”
impute
scintillating
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sportive
dell
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Chapter 17 “The Pastor and his Parishioner”
dolefully
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Chapter 18 “A Flood of Sunshine”
colloquy
extenuation
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transgress
transmuting
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Chapter 19 “The Child at the Brook-side”
mollified
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entreaties
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Chapter 20 “The Minister in a Maze”
vicissitude
duplicity
irrefragable
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obeisance
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Chapter 21 “The New England Holiday”
languor
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consternation
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Chapter 22 “The Procession”
effervescence
indefatigable
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ponderous
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Chapter 23 “The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter”
transitory
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intimations
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Chapter 24 “Conclusion”
necromancer
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nugatory
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