Young Goodman Brown vocabulary

Congregation

• a group of people assembled for religious worship
• A person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs
• Feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no cause
• sky, heavens, especially when regarded as a tangible thing

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Fervid

• intensely enthusiastic or passionate, especially to an excessive degree.
• to keep company; associate with
• A decorative chain of flowers, leaves, or ribbons hung in a curve
• Feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no cause

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Martyr

• A person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs
• A decorative chain of flowers, leaves, or ribbons hung in a curve
• deliberate and unprovoked
• to honor, to regard with respect

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Zenith

• the time at which something is most powerful or successful
• difficult and much debated; problematic; frustrated or worried
• deliberate and unprovoked
• face; facial expression

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Smite

• strike with a firm blow
• having to do with the church or the clergy
• a group of people assembled for religious worship
• Devoutly religious

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Ecclesiastical

• having to do with the church or the clergy
• strike with a firm blow
• something or someone that one vehemently dislikes
• a feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality or propriety of a course of action

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Vexed

• difficult and much debated; problematic; frustrated or worried
• strike with a firm blow
• face; facial expression
• A decorative chain of flowers, leaves, or ribbons hung in a curve

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Innumerable

• too many to count
• sky, heavens, especially when regarded as a tangible thing
• the time at which something is most powerful or successful
• Devoutly religious

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Revere

• to honor, to regard with respect
• a summary of the principles of Christian religion in the form of questions and answers, used for the instruction of Christians
• too many to count
• the time at which something is most powerful or successful

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Consort

• to keep company; associate with
• the time at which something is most powerful or successful
• to honor, to regard with respect
• strike with a firm blow

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4