Vocabular from Young Goodman Brown
By Nathanial Hawthorne
Approximately in the order that the words appear in the story.
Threshold (noun)
aptly, as in “aptly named”
prithee
tarry, as in “tarry with me this night, dear husband”
twixt, as in “twixt, now and sunrise”
“dost thou,” as in “what, my sweet, pretty wife, dost thou”
dusk
thee
aire, as in “melancholy air”
smote, as in “his heart smote him”
wretch
errand
methought
resolve as in “resolve for the future”
haste
dreary
peculiarity
solitude
multitude
figure, as in “the figure of a man”
grave, as in “grave and decent attire”
agone, as in “full fifteen minutes agone”
rank, as in “same rank of life”
considerable, as in “bearing a considerable resemblance to him”
clad, as in “simply clad””
air, as in “an . . . air of one who knew the world”
abashed, as in “have felt abashed”
affairs, as in “were it possible that his affairs should call him thither”
thither, as in “call him thither”
“but the only thing about him that could be fixed upon as remarkable”
wrought, as in “curiously wrought”
ocular, as in “an ocular deception”
dull, as in ”a dull pace”
thee
covenant, as in “having kept covenant by meeting thee here”
whence, as in “return whence I came”
scuples, as in “I have scruples touching the matter"
wot’st, as in “I have scruples touching the matter thou wot'st of”
“since the days of the martyrs”
smartly, as in “lashed the Quaker woman so smartly through the streets of Salem”
kindle
hearth
fain, as in “I would fain be friends with you for their sake”
“to boot” as in “we are a people of prayer, and good works to boot"
abide, as in “We . . . abide no such wickedness”
“general acquaintance” as in “I have a very general acquaintance here in New England”
Howbeit, as in "Howbeit, I have nothing to do with the governor and council”
diverse, as in “divers towns”
husbandman
gravity, as in “listened with due gravity”
irrepressible
mirth
nettled
e'en
“exemplary dame” as in “a pious and exemplary dame”
catechism
marvel, as in "I marvel they never spoke of these matters;”
whither
betake
singular, as in “singular speed”
indistinct
forsooth
worship, as a noun as in “your worship”
gossip, as a noun as in “old gossip”
smallage, cinquefoil and wolf’s bane, as in “juice of smallage, and cinquefoil, and wolf's bane”
cackling
twinkling, short for in the twinkling of an eye, as used in “we shall be there in a twinkling"
magi, as used in “Egyptian magi”
cognizance, as in “take cognizance”
“cast up” as in “cast up his eyes in astonishment”
serpentine
exhorted
auditor, as in “spring up in the bosom of his auditor”
plucked
boughs
withered
budge, as in “not another step will I budge on this errand”
acquaintence, as in “said his acquaintance composedly”
composedly, as in “said his acquaintance composedly”
applauding, as in “applauding himself greatly”
meditations
verge, as in “the verge of the forest”
grave, as in “grave old voices, conversing soberly”
mingled
athwart, as in “the faint gleam from the strip of bright sky athwart which they must have passed”
durst, as in “thrust his head as he durst”
discerning, as in “without discerning so much as a shadow”
vexed
ecclesiastical, as in “ecclesiastical council”
pluck, as in “pluck a switch”
switch, as in “pluck a switch”
“Indian powwows”
deviltry
goodly, as in “a goodly young woman”
"Spur up” as in “Spur up, or we shall be late”
faint, as in ”faint and overburdened with the heavy sickness of his heart
zenith, as in “a cloud . . . hurried across the zenith”
aloft
aught, as in “whether he had heard aught but the murmur of the old forest”
lamentations, as in “uttering lamentations”
shrank
“an inspiration” as in blasphemy, as in “an inspiration of horrid blasphemy”
blasphemy, as in “an inspiration of horrid blasphemy”
“giving vent”, as in “giving vent to an inspiration of horrid blasphemy”
demoniac
lurid
blaze
benighted
peal
unison, as in “his cry was lost to his own ear by its unison with the cry of the desert”
interval
stole, as in “he stole forward”
peopling, as in “peopling the heart of the solitary woods”
quoth
extremity, as in “at one extremity of an open space, hemmed in by the dark wall of the forest”
foliage
summit
fitfully
pendent, as in “each pendent twig and leafy festoon”
festoon, as in “each pendent twig and leafy festoon”
devoutly
benignantly
pew
pulpit
“high dame”
repute
espy
obscure
bedazzled
sanctity
venerable
revered
irreverently
consorting
pious
chaste
“dewy virgin”
dissolute, as in “dissolute lives and women of spotted fame”
spotted, as in “women of spotted fame”
incantation
the pious
conceive
unfathomable
mortal
anthem
“the unconcerted wilderness”
mingling
“in homage”
loftier
impious
similitude, as in “no slight similitude”
loathful
well-nigh, as in “well-nigh sworn that the shape of his own dead father beckoned him”
wreath
veiled
“rampant hag”
proselyte, as a noun
“canopy of fire”
fiend
visage
sable
reverenced
righteousness
aspiration
“hoary-bearded elders”
“wanton words”
“widows' weeds”
penetrate
inexhaustibly
“unhallowed altar”
“yet undeceived”
partake and partakers
polluted, as in “polluted wretches”
solitude
bestow
venerable
“an anathema”
lattice, as in “stood in the early sunshine at her own lattice”
catechize
“evil omen”
meditative
fervid
eloquence
unutterable
blasphemer
eventide
“hoary corpse”
“a goodly procession”