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The Scarlet Letter Vocabulary
Below are 125 vocabulary words from the novel. For each chapter, expect a reading quiz
that includes recall of vocabulary words from the corresponding chapter (s). You do not
have to know the highlighted words for testing purposes, but you do need to look up the
definition in order to aide your reading.
Chapters 1-4
1. Edifice
2. Congenial
3. Augured
4. Ensue
5. Evanescent
6. Deportment
7. Ignominy
8. Mien
9. Immaterial
10. Phantasmagoric
11. Remonstrance
12. Garb
13. Abate
14. Convulsive
15. Sojourn
16. Iniquity
17. Sagacity
18. Obstinacy
19. Lurid
20. Intimated
21. Efficacy
22. Feigned
23. Wrench
Chapters 5-8
1. Combative
2. Inscrutable
3. Fatality
4. Plebeian
5. Commiseration
6. Ascetic
7. Repugnance
8. Mutability
9. Caprice
10. Delusive
11. Inviolable
12. Enmity
13. Dearth
14. Ludicrous
15. Pristine
16. Extant
17. Gilded
18. Panoply
19. Temporal
20. Imbibes
21. Warily
22. Inopportune
23. Retribution
Chapters 9-12
1. Heterogeneous
2. Countenanced
3. Orthodox
4. Sagacity
5. Proximity
6. Inimical
7. Manifest
8. Solace
9. Decorously
10. Mirth
11. Demerits
12. Imbued
13. Proffering
14. Assented
15. Latent
16. Odious
17. Abstruse
18. Veneration
19. Diabolic
20. Ethereal
21. Pith
22. Impalpable
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23. Conjecture
24. Scurrilous
25. Portent
Chapters 13-18
1. Groveled
2. Gibe
3. Propensity
4. Austerity
5. Entreaty
6. Purport
7. Visage
8. Rankle
9. Propinquity
10. Bane
11. Sedulous
12. Upbraided
13. Enigma
14. Asperity
15. Imputed
16. Pensiveness
17. Scintillating
18. Vivacity
19. Epoch
20. Specter
21. Sentinel
22. Colloquy
23. Extenuation
24. Harrowed
25. Infamy
26. Machinations
27. Denizens
Chapters 19-24
1. Imperious
2. Inured
3. Mollified
4. Duplicity
5. Petrified
6. Potentate
7. Requisite
8. Recompense
9. Languor
10. Posterity
11. Eminence
12. Plaintiveness
13. Boorish
14. Surmise
15. Marshaled
16. Reverberating
17. Apotheosized
18. Impelled
19. Nether
20. Tumult
21. Nugatory
22. Repudiate
23. Consummation
24. Antipathy
25. Bequeathed
26. Lineage
27. Impediments