Scarlet Letter Vocab. List 1 Review

Shaking or quivering slightly 

Timid / Nervous 

• tremulous

• brazen

• ponderous

• pristine

The state of being well known for some bad quality or deed

• dauntless

• sagacious

• vivified

• infamy

She was nervous for her first piano lesson; but, her instructor’s calm _____________ instantly put her at ease.

• penitence

• demeanor

• panoply

• infamy

• imperious

• congenial

• pristine

• iniquity

lacking in quantity

• meagre

• ponderous

• ascetic

• imperious

• meagre

• ponderous

• exhortation

• lurid

In an act of __________________, the criminal apologized and asked for forgiveness.

• paramour

• infamy

• penitence

• brazen

The street lights cast a ____________ glow almost as eerie as the one cast by Hester’s scarlet letter.

• dauntless

• lurid

• intrinsic

• imperious

This hero is .....

• ascetic

• venrable

• dauntless

• congenial

noun  

Immoral or grossly unfair behavior 

• iniquity

• panoply

• exhortation

• peremtory