The Scarlet Letter Vocabulary #1

For people in Miss Smyth class, class of 2027

Iniquity

Sin, wickedness

Haughty

Arrogantly, superior, and disdainful

Brazen

Bold, shameless, and impudent

Amenable

Cooperative or likely to agree to suggestions

Lurid

Shocking, as from disturbing details of a horrible story, or a color more vivid than would be expected.

Meager

Lacking in quantity or quality

Rebuke

criticize severely; or such criticism

Exhort

To urge strongly

Impediment

Something immaterial that interferes with action or progress

Peremptory

Not allowing contradiction or refusal

Visage

Someone’s face or facial expression

Flagrant

Obviously and outrageously bad

Auger

To indicate or predict that something will happen

Petrify

To freeze in fear or to make someone stiff and unmoving

Indubitably

unquestionably

Inauspicious

Showing signs that something is likely to go badly or be unsuccesful