Feelings
Ideas
Providing
Descriptions
The Scarlet Letter
100

When you are looking for sympathy, find a person who can be described as ___

What is amicable

100

This word relates to beauty.

What can be described as aesthetic

100

Providing relief or making less intense.

Assuage

100

A person can be described as intimidating or ...

Dauntless

100

The townspeople in Puritan Mass tend to make life worse for Hester.  They ___ the situation.

Adulterate

200

This type of person has no emotion, feeling or concern.

What is apathetic

200

This type of behavior is out of control.

Amok

200

Providing a type of protection.

Asylum

200

A person with a bad reputation will live in ___.

Infamy

200

Hester is NEVER given this type of flattery at the beginning of the novel.

Adulation

300

This type of person is willing to take bold risks.

What is audacious

300

This is an idea that lacks originality.

Banal

300

Providing the phrase, "seize the day!"

Carpe Diem


300

This type of person can be described as using informal or ___ language.

Colloquial

300

Hester did not carefully think about her possible consequences.  She was not in the least bit ____.

circumspect

400

This person is one who creates maps.

What is a cartographer

400

This is related to an idea or concept that has two parts.

Binary

400

Providing a warning about a particular statement that should be remembered.

Caveat

400

This type of person can be described as having done something that is shameful or ___.

Ignominous

400

Hester and Pearl live through abusive and bitter attacks or ___.

diatribes.

500

This person can see into the future.

What is a clairvoyant

500

You can visualize this as something that gives support to another structure.

Buttress

500

Providing salvation.

Redemption

500

This type of person can be described as someone who makes situations worse.  They actually ____ the situation.

Adulterate

500

This is a free space.

No question needed.