abate

edifice

sepulcher

“Although, by a seemingly careless arrangement of his heterogeneous garb, he had endeavored to conceal or _______________ the peculiarity, it was sufficiently evident to Hester Prynne that one of this man’s shoulders rose higher than the other”.

“His first care was given to the child, whose cries, indeed, as she lay writhing on the trundle bed, made it of _________________ necessity to postpone all their business to the task of soothing her”.

evanescent

“‘I promise you, Mistress Prynne shall hereafter be more _______________ to just authority than you may have found her heretofore’”.

fervor

vivify

“A throng . . . was assembled in front of a wooden _______________, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak and studded with iron spikes”

“His eloquence and religious ______________ had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession”.

ignominy

peremptory

“It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodox religionist, was to be _________________ out of the town. . . .”

“Those who had before known her . . . were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out and made a halo of the misfortune and __________________ in which she was enveloped”.

“She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterized by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, __________________, and indescribable grace, which is now recognized as its indication”

“. . . they marked off the first burial ground, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated _________________ in the old churchyard of King’s Chapel”.

scourged

“. . . she would become the general symbol at which the preacher and moralist might point, and in which they might ____________ and embody their images of woman’s frailty and sinful passion”.