Scarlet Letter Vocab

Amiable

friendly or pleasant manner

Anarchist

A person who practices anarchy

Antipathy

A deep-seated feeling of dislike; aversion

Benevolence

kindness

Cantankerous

Bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative

Contiguous

Next to; touching

Colloquy

Formal conversation or discussion

Edifice

building

Ensue

To take place afterward

Feign

To pretend

Garrulous

Excessively talkative

Gesticulation

A gesture

Hedonist

One who believes that the pursuit of pleasure is the most important thing in life

Ignominy

Deep personal humiliation and disgrace

Inauspicious

Unfavorable, unlucky

indefatigable

Untiring

Indomitable

Impossible to defeat

Inducements

Motives

Loquacity

The quality of talking continually or expressively

Obeisance

Gesture of respect

Panoply

Full suit of armor

Physiognomy

judging a human character from facial features

Pious

Devoutly religious

Probity

Honesty

Recalcitrant

Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline

Recompense

Payment for a service

Stoic

A person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining.

Taciturn

Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little of a person

Tribunal

Court or meeting at which a trial is carried out

Vicissitude

Quality of being changeable

Abstruse

Difficult to understand

Appellation

Identifying name or title

Deleterious

Having an unexpected harmful effect

Importunate

Troublesomely urgent

Latent

Hidden

Propensity

Tendency

Propinquity

Nearness

Stigmatized

Identified with disgrace

Torpid

Sluggish