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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Vocabulary Activities Bundle

Use these vocabulary enrichment activities covering Nathaniel Hawthorne's *The Scarlet Letter* to frontload assigned readings and enhance comprehension of plot. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the novel during unexpected teacher absences. Included are 5 vocabulary application activities, 5 crossword puzzles, 5 word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these activities, students will determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words and discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences. A total of 129 words are addressed: Abashed, abhorrence, abode, abstruse, accost, admonish, alloy, appellation, assent, augur, bedizen, behoof, bequeath, beseech, besmirch, bestow, blight, boorish, caper, caprice, chirurgical, colloquy, commence, conjecture, contrive, contumely, cordial, counsel, countenance, decorously, defunct, deleterious, demeanor, desolate, despotic, dolefully, duplicity, eccentricity, effluence, eldritch, emaciated, eminent, emissary, emolument, etherealize, evanescent, evoke, exhortation, feign, fervent, forlorn, fortitude, futile, gait, gallant, gesticulate, guillotine, haggard, heedful, ignominious, imbibe, imbue, imperious, implore, importunate, inauspicious, incredulity, indefatigable, inimical, inscrutable, invariably, inviolable, irksomeness, irrefragable, jocularity, loquacity, lurid, magistrate, meddle, meed, mien, mirthful, misanthropy, multitudinous, necromancy, nugatory, obstinacy, pacify, palliate, panoply, pathos, petulant, piety, plashy, plebian, plumage, potentate, precede, precocity, preliminary, principal, probity, propinquity, quaff, repudiate, retribution, sagacious, scowl, scrofula, scurrilous, sedulous, sojourn, somniferous, sportive, sunder, superfluous, torpid, transitory, tremulous, tumult, unadulterated, upbraid, utopia, vehemently, venerable, vicissitude, wan, warily, and wellnigh.