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SL Vocab #1-6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aspect | appearance |
| edifice | building |
| frailty | weakness |
| inauspicious | unfavorable |
| ponderous | heavy |
| portal | doorway |
| sepulcher | tomb |
| threshold | entrance |
| throng | crowd |
| Utopia | perfect society |
| Augur | fortell, predict |
| beadle | minor church official |
| behoof | benefit |
| Continental | European |
| countenance | face |
| Demeanor | carriage, appearance |
| Deportment | behavior |
| farthingale | under-hoop for skirt |
| hussy | loose woman |
| ignominy | disgrace |
| malefactress | female criminal |
| meagre | small |
| mien | apperance |
| misshapen | deformed |
| Papist | Roman Catholic |
| Physiognomy | face |
| pillory | punishment device |
| scaffold | platform for punishment |
| scourge | punishment by beating |
| transgressor | sinner |
| venerable | respected |
| visage | face |
| behooves | benefit |
| garb | clothing |
| halberd | long-handled axe |
| hypocrisy | pretending to be what one's not |
| ignominious | disgraceful |
| infamy | ill repute |
| infernal | from Hell |
| iniquity | sin |
| lurid | glowing red through smoke |
| transgress | sin |
| writhe | twist in pain |
| alchemy | magical science of the middle ages |
| amenable | obedient |
| aught | anything |
| bale-fire | signal fire |
| besmirch | stain |
| draught | drink |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| feign | pretend |
| heretofore | up until now |
| insubordination | disobedience |
| leech | doctor |
| Lethe/Nepenthe | drug causing forgetfulness |
| paramour | lover |
| peremptory | haughty |
| quaff | drink |
| requital | return |
| sagamores | subordinate Indian chiefs |
| simples | medical herbs |
| sojourn | visit |
| stripe | mark of a whip |
| wherefore | why |
| ascetic | plain |
| contumaciously | stubbornly, rebelliously |
| discerning | insightful, understanding |
| emigrants | person who has left his homeland |
| exhortation | language to incite, urge, encourage |
| inscrutable | mysterious |
| malice | desire to see another suffer |
| plebian | of the common people |
| sable | black |
| sumptuary | regulating personal luxuries |
| superfluous | extra |
| uncongenial | unfriendly, disagreeable |
| vivify | make it come to life |
| vulgar | common people |
| abyss | bottomless pit |
| anathema | curse |
| array | dress up |
| disport | amuse oneself; frolic |
| ejaculation | short, sudden, emotional, utterance |
| fiend | devil |
| gesticulation | expressive gesture |
| labyrinth | maze |
| mutability | changeability |
| perpetuate | cause to change |
| preternatural | unnatural; supernatural |
| prolific | fruitful, abundant |
| puny | weak and small |
| sprite | elf, fairy |
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