Scarlet Letter Vocab And More

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Ponderous

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Of very great weight

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Edifice

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Building; especially a large or massive structure

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Inauspicious

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Not showing or suggesting that future success is likely

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Physognomies

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A person's facial features

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Augured

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Suggested that somthing might happen in the future

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Heterodox

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Not agreeing with established beliefs or standards

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Penal

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Relating to or used for punishment

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Rotundity

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Having a rich full sound

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Purport

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The main point if something expressed

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Malefactress

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A woman who violates the law or does evil

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Sumptuary

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Intended to regulate personal habits on moral or religious grounds

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Evanescent

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Tending to vanish like vapor

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Ignominy

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Disgrace dishonor or public contempt

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Rheumatic

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Pertaining to illness of rheumatic fever

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Pillory

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A wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, used to expose an offender to public derision

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Manifest

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Evident or obvious

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Mien

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Air, bearing or demeanor

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Preternaturally

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Supernaturally done outside of nature

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Phantasmagoric

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Having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination

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Peradventure

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Perhaps

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Behooves

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To be necessary or proper for, as for moral or ethical consideration

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Halberds

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Shafted weapons with ab axel Ike cutting blades, beaks, and apical spikes, used especially in the 15th and 16th century

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Sagacity

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Wisdom

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Amenable

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Ready or willing to answer, act, agree or yield

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Peremptory

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Leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal

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Draught

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A portion as of medicine poured out or mixed for drinking

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Paramour

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An illicit lover

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Symbolism

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Using a person, place or thing to represent an abstract Idea or concept it is anything that stands for something beyond itself

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Literary allusion

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A reference, with a literary work, to another work of fiction a film a piece of art or even a real event. An allusion serves a kind of shorthand, drawing in this outside work to provide a greater context or meaning to the situation being written about

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Romans 3:23

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For all have sinned and fall short or the glory of God

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Lurid

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Sensational, shocking

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Vivify

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To make vivid

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Inacrutable

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Not easily understood, mysterious

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Fain

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By preference

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Sable

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Black, dark or gloomy

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Progenitors

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Forefathers

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Ruffs

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Stiffly starched frilled lace collars worn by men of the 16th and 17th centuries

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Emolument

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Compensation, for services provided

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Ascetic

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Practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and spiritual discipline

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Contumaciously

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Rebelliously

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Imbibing

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To drink in, to take in

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Caprice

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A disposition to do things impulsively

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Anathemas

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Curses

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Dearth

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Scarcity, inadequate supply, famine

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Gesticulation

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An expressive gesture made in showing string feeling

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Intrinsic

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Belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing

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Similitude

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Counterpart, double

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Similitude

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Counterpart, double

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Cabalistic

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Having a secret or hidden meaning, occult

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Panoply

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Full suit of armor

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Exigencies

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States of affair that make urgent demands

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Mountebank

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A boastful unscrupulous pretender

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Appellation

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An identifying name or title

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Commodiousness

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Being adequate for a particular purpose

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Inimical

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Being adverse, often by reason of hostility or malevolence

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Importunate

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Troublesomely urgent

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Palliate

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To cover by excuses and apologies

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Abstruse

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Difficult to comprehend

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Etherealized

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Made into an ethereal or spirit - like state

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Impalpaple

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Not readily discerned by the mind

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Imagery

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The use of words that appeal to our senses

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Figurative language

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Includes various types of comparisons such as similes, metaphors, and personification as well as language used on more than one level (symbolism, irony, paradox and allusion

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Simile

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A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike thing are compared, often in a phrase with like or as

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Metaphor

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a figure of speech where to nouns are compared with like or as

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Paradox

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a figure of speech in which a statement appears to contradict itself, but In reality expresses a possible truth

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Jame 5:16

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Therfore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of s righteous man is powerful and effective

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Somnabulism

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Sleepwalking

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Catarrh

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Inflammation of mucous membrane particularly of the head and throat with free discharge of mucus

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Expiation

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The act of making amends for

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Impute

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To credit to a person or cause, to attribute

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Scurrilous

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Vulgar evil

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Deportment

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The manner in which one conducts oneself

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Obviated

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Made unnecessary

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Propinquity

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Nearness, proximity

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Bane

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A source of harm or ruin

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Sere

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Being dried and withered

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Sedulous

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Persevering

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Deleterious

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Harmful, often in a subtle or unexpected way

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Unwonted

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Out of the ordinary, rare, unusual

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Beneficence

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The quality or state of being kind and charitable

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Asperity

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Harshness, severity

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Pensiveness

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A state of being lost in sad thoughtfulness

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Scrufula

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A tuberculosis condition

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Loquacity

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The quality or state of being very talkative

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Misanthropy

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A hatred or distrust of mankind

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Tramelled

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Confined

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Denizens

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Inhabitants

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Mollified

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Soothed, softened

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Protagonist

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The main character in a novel. There may be more than one protagonist in a work

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Antagonist

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The character who presents a challenge or an obstacle to the protagonist in a story

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Static character

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One who does not change at all through the course of the novel

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Dynamic character

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One who responds to events and experiences a change in attitude or Outlook

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Round character

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One who has many complex traits that change throughout the story

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Stereotypical

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One who follows a well-known stereotype

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Romans 12:19

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Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's Erath for it is written: 'It is mine to avenge, I will repay,' says the Lord

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Vicissitude

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A favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance

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Disquietude

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Anxiety, agitation

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Irrefragable

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Impossible to refute

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Obeisance

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Acknowledgment of another's superiority or importance

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Impiety

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Irreverence

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Potentate

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Ruler

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Plebeian

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One of the common people

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Langour

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Weakness or weariness of body or mind

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Jocularity

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Characterized by jest in or playfulness

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Depredations

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Damages or losses

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Probity

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Adherence to the highest principles and ideals

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Animadversion

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An adverse criticism

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Clarion

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A medieval trumpet with clear, shrill tones

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Necromancy

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Magic, sorcery

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Indefatigable

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Incapable of being fatigued

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Apotheosized

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Elevated to divine status

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Nugatory

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Of little or no consequence

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Escutcheon

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A defined area on which armorial bearings are displayed and which usually consists of a shield

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Ezekiel 18:30:31

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"Therefore, you Israelite, I will judge each of you according to your own ways declares the sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will no be your downfall. Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, people of Israel.

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Nathaniel hawthorn was born in

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1804, Salem Massachusetts, ancestor jown hawthorn was judge in Salem witch trials

-worked and a Boston custom house

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Married to

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Sophia Peabody in 1842,

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Became united states

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Consul to Liverpool, England in 1853. Toured Europe until return I'm 1860

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Died

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1864

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First novel

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Fanshawe, 1828

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Scarlet letter published in

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1850 best seller

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Seven gables

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1851 other masterpiece

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Character personality may be displayed in the following

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Words, actions, reactions, thoughts, feelings, mannerisms