Scarlet Letter Vocab Chapts. 19-21

the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery

• depredation

• languor

• potentate

• prattle

uneasiness; the state of disturbance

• vicissitude

• disquietude

• preternatural

• uncouth

state or quality of being facetious or joking; a funny remark

• cabalistic

• deportment

• despondent

• jocularity

physical weakness or faintness; lack of energy; lack of spirit; sluggishness

• pestilence

• languor

• depredation

• emaciated

a bow or curtsey; a movement of the body expressing deep respect

• languor

• gibe

• obeisance

• vicissitude

one who possesses power or dominion; monarch; ruler

• potentate

• despotic

• enigma

• petulant

 to utter by chattering or babbling; to talk in a simple-minded or foolish way

• austerity

• uncouth

• prattle

• leech

 out of the natural or ordinary course of nature; abnormal; exceptional

• innate

• preternatural

• depredation

• disquietude

unmannerly; awkward; clumsy; of ungraceful appearance

• asperity

• jocularity

• prattle

• uncouth

a change or variation in the course of something

• requital

• vicissitude

• potentate

• gibe