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Scarlet Letter Voc
something
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| venerable | comanding respect because of grea age or dignityu |
| Impropriety | being impropore |
| evanescent | vanishing; fading away |
| ignominy | disgrace |
| preternaturally | out of the ordinary ssupernatural |
| expostulation | earnest protest |
| ascetic | practicing self denial |
| contumacious | rebellious |
| incredulity | unwillingness to believe |
| perverse | turned away from what is good |
| anathema | a person that is loathed |
| singular | unique |
| imperious | dictatorial |
| depravity | the state of being morally bad |
| unscrupulous | not showing strict regard for what is right |
| providence | resulting from divine intervention |
| importunate | trublesum |
| inimical | harmful |
| palliate | to make less suveer |
| efficacious | effective in doing something |
| ethereal | light airy |
| inextricable | not capable of being liberated |
| decorous | charactirized by dignified conduct |
| impute | to blame falsley |
| obviate | to prevent |
| acquiesce | to submit without protest |
| deletrious | harmful to living |
| petulant | rude |
| precocity | being extremly advanced |
| loquacity | being talkative |
| misnathropy | hatred of people |
| sanctity | hollines |
| consecration | to make sacred |
| extenuation | justification for an act |
| expiate | to get rid of the guilt |
| irrevocable | some thing that can't be taken away |
| mollify | to reduce |
| irrefragable | not to be disputed |
| mutability | liable to change |
| dissolute | not morally restrained |
| gratuitous | unnecesary and unwanted |
| depredation | the act of robbing |
| probity | integrity honesty |
| demeanor | conduct |
| necromancy | conjuring the dead |
| eccentricity | oddity or uniquity |
| oracle | prophecy or prophet |
| irrepressible | incapable of being restrained |
| apotheosis | the elevation to the rank of god |
| fathom | to understand |
| consummation | the end of something |