Vocabulary
Chapter 1
Vocab Again
And Again
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a large, imposing building
What is an edifice
100
the setting of the novel?
What is Boston, MA
100
to distribute by lot; allocate
What is allot (verb)
100
having great weight; massive; huge
What is ponderous (adjective)
100
The author of this novel?
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne
200
a place of social and political perfection
What is utopia (noun)
200
Hester's sin (starts with an A)
What is adultery
200
a large crowd or group of people
What is throng (noun)
200
in keeping with the time or the season
Who is seasonable (adjective)
200
a governmental building situated near a port where Hawthorne worked
What is the Custom House
300
not favorable; unlucky
What is inauspicious
300
Hester's punishment
What is answers may vary...... jail, stand on the stocks/ public humiliation wear a scarlet letter
300
to punish; subject to severe criticism
What is scourged (skurj - d)
300
a court; forum of justice
What is tribunal (noun)
300
Puritans founded this university
What is Harvard
400
facial expression; countenance
What is physiognomies (noun) ( fizz - ee - AHG - no - me)
400
What is the title of chapter 1?
What is The Prison Door
400
burial vaults; tomb
What is sepulchers (noun)
400
given evidence of; foreshadowed
What is betokened
400
Tha government where the civil laws are based on religious laws
What is a theocracy
500
unquestionably
What is indubitably (in - doo - bi - tuh - buh - ly)
500
What were the first 2 things built in the village
What is a prison and a cemetery
500
one who rejects a social or moral code
What is antinomian (noun)
500
foretold; predicted; to predict from signs
What is augured (verb)
500
another name for the stocks
What is the pillory (maybe scaffold)
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