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Scarlet Letter
Week 10
20
English
11th Grade
11/30/2006

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apothecary
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one that preparees and sells drugs and other medicines; a pharmacist
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pharmocopoeia
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collection oor stock of drugs
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exemplary
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serving as a model
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avowed
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to acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly; confess
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interposition
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to place between others or things
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importunate
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troublesomely ugent or persistent in requesting; pressingly entreating
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infirmity
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illness; weakness
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delve
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to search deeply and laboriously
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sagacity
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quality of being discerning, sound in judgement, and farsighted; swisdom
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affinity
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natural attaction, liking or feeling of kinship
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tumult
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din and commotion of a great crowd
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inarticulate
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uttered without the use of normal words or syllables; incomprehensible as speech or language
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unsavory
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distasteful or disagreeable
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abode
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home
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erudition
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deep, extensive learning
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decried
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to condemn openly
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commodiousness
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able to accept a large number, spacious, roomy
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refutation
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something, such as an argument, that refutes someone or something
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incantation
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ritual recitation of verbal charms or speels to produce a magic effect
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ominous
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menacing; threatening
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