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Scarlet Letter
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11/02/2005
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Russet
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reddish brown
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Lurid
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Shocking, vivid, sensational
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Edifice
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A large building for storage
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Expiation
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Atonement, making amends
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Gibe
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To taunt or jeer at
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innate
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inborn
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pensive
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Serious or quickly reflective
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temporal
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earthly or temporary
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odious
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offensive or repugnant
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propensity
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a tendency toward
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vehemently
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with great feeling or passion
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eldritch
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weird
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imbibe
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to drink in
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caprice
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whim or sudden change of mind
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sunder
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to break apart
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emaciate
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extremely thin or wasted
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loquacity
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talkativeness
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satiate
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to fill up beyound natural appetite
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sepulchre
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burial place
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ignominious
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shameful
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congenial
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agreeable
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palliate
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to relieve or make less
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besmirch
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to soil or stain
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rankle
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to irritate
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aver
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to delcare or affirm
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propagate
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to multiply or bribe
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progentior
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a forefather
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*ugar
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predicts the future
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mountebank
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a charlatan
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apothecary
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a druggist
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sexton
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one who rings the church bell
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somnambulist
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a sleepwalker
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despot
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a tyrant
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misantrope
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one who hates mandkind
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depot
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A warehouse or storehouse
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nepenthe
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a drug used for relief of grief
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callow
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immature
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pestilience
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fatal epidiemic disease
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tremulous
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trembling, quivering, shaking
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tumult
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an uprising
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misogynist
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one who hates women
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