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Scarlet Letter
Chapters 22-24
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English
11th Grade
10/25/2006
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necromancy
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(n) sorcery; blackmagic
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indefatigable
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(adj) untiring; not easily fatigued
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oracles
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(n) person believed to be in divine communication
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transitory
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(adj) temporarily
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eminence
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(n) high position, king
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symphonious
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(adj) harmonious
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apothesized
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(v) idolize
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appalled
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(v) to fill with dismay
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conjectural
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(adj) a guess, problematc, based on guess work
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nugatory
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(adj) worthless
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gules
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(n) the color red
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colloquy
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(n) conversation, discussion
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earnest
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(n) a pledge or token
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stigma
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(n) a mark of disgrace or infamy
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effluence
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(n) the action of flowing out
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effluence
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(n) the action of flowing out
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chloeric
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(adj) easily angered
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inured
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(v) to accustom to hardship, difficulty and pain
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inured
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(v) to accustom to hardship, difficulty and pain
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inured
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(v) to accustom to hardship, difficulty and pain
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irrefragable
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(adj) not to be disputed or contested
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vicissitude
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(n) unforseeable change
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comport
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(v) to behave
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obeisance
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(n) obedient, bow curtsy
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instillment
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(n) infusing to the mind or spirit
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effervescence
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(n) livelyness, high spiritedness
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affliction
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(n) misery
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depredations
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(n) acts of robbery, plumbering
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probity
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(n) honesty
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animadversion
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(n) act of criticizing, unfavorable comment
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