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