the scarlet letter vocab

Abate (V)

to make less severe/strong.

Amenable (ADJ)

someone willing to accept or do something.

Colloquial (ADJ)

informal words nad phrases used in conversation.

Edifice (N)

large and impressive building.

Effervescent (ADJ)

A liquid rhat contains or releases bubbles of gas. A lively, entertaining, enthusiastic, and exciting person.

Enigmatic (ADJ)

is mysterious and difficult to understand.

Erudite (ADJ)

someone with great academic knowledge.

Exigencies (N)

the demands or difficulties that you have to deal with as part of a job or situation.

Expiate (V)

an action to indicate that you are sorry for what you have done.

Extant (ADJ)

something still in existence, in spite of being very old.

Ignominy (N)

shame or public disgrace.

Loquacious (ADJ)

someone who talks a lot.

Misanthrope (N)

a person who does not like other people.

Mutability (N)

the ability to be altered or the tendency to change.

Necromancy (N)

magic that some people believe brings a dead person back to this world so that you can talk to them.

Odious (ADJ)

used to describe something/someone as hateful or disgusting

Palliate (V)

to alleviate or lessen the severity of symptoms without curing the underlying cause.

Pithy (ADJ)

comment or piece of writing is short, direct, and full of meaning.

Propinquity (N)

the nearness to you in location or time. also describe a close relationship to someone or something.

Tempestuous (ADJ)

relationship or situation in which very strong and intense emotions, especially anger, are involved.

Sagacious (ADJ)

an intelligent person with the ability to make good decisions.

Scurrilous (ADJ)

accusations or stories are untrue and unfair and are likely to damage the reputation of the person that they relate to.

Sedulous (ADJ)

someone who does not give up or works hard to carefully persevere in the completion of a task.

Venerate (V)

you value them or feel great respect for them.

Vicissitude (N)

a change, especially an unpleasant one, that happens to someone or something at different times in their life or development.