puritan vocab

Adulterate

To make a substance impure, weaker, or of lower quality by adding a foreign, cheap, or inferior ingredient

Fortitude

Mental and emotional strength that allows a person to face difficulty, pain, or danger with courage

Insidious

Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful or devastating effects.

Warily

Acting with caution, care, or suspicion because you worry about potential danger or do not fully trust a situation

Bereft

Lacking, deprived of something, or suffering from a heavy, sorrowful loss

Gape (apparently not correct)

To stare with your mouth wide open in surprise, or to be wide open like a hole, crack, or split seam

Pliable

Easily bent, folded, or twisted without breaking

Ignominy

Great public shame, humiliation, or disgrace

Dour

unfriendly, stern, harsh, or very serious

Guise

an outward appearance or form that hides the true nature of someone or something, often used to deceive

Verbatim

using exactly the same words, or repeating something word for word