THE SCARLET LETTER – VOCABULARY

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Across
  1. 2. shameless or impudent
  2. 4. to plan with ingenuity
  3. 7. arising, occurring, or continuing after one's death
  4. 8. strikingly bright or intense
  5. 9. intense physical or mental suffering
  6. 10. gaze inward; examine one’s own thoughts and motives
  7. 14. to reject with disdain; despise
  8. 15. disgrace; dishonor; public contempt
  9. 17. outside of natural, abnormal, supernatural
  10. 19. the face, usually with reference to shape, features, expression,
  11. 20. gross injustice or wickedness
  12. 21. to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn
  13. 23. not promising success, unfavorable
  14. 25. a large, packed crowd of people or animals
  15. 26. place of seclusion and quiet; perhaps religious
  16. 28. a building, especially a large, imposing one
  17. 29. elevated platform on which a prisoner is executed
  18. 31. outward appearance
Down
  1. 1. a wooden frame on which condemned persons are executed by hanging
  2. 3. roundness
  3. 5. gather into a crowd
  4. 6. the area near or surrounding a particular place
  5. 7. connected with illusions, deceptive appearances
  6. 11. of great weight; heavy; massive
  7. 12. a watch or a period of watchful attention maintained at night or at other times
  8. 13. marked by disturbance and uproar
  9. 16. pleasant because of personality, qualities, or interests that are similar to ones own
  10. 17. a person's facial features or expressions
  11. 18. open and responsive suggestion
  12. 22. bloodsucker; doctor
  13. 24. educated guess
  14. 27. learned, scholarly
  15. 30. shockingly noticeable; obvious, glaring