Their creed forbade anything resembling a theater or �vain enjoyment.�
2. Parochial- of or relating to a church parish
The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians.
3.Innate- belonging to the essential nature of something
For these reasons, among others, they carried about an air of innate resistance, even of persecution.
4.Insoluble- having or admitting of no solution or explanation
The times, to their eyes, must have been out of joint, and to the common folk must have seemed in soluble and complicated as do ours today.
5.Propriety- conformity to what is socially acceptable in conduct or speech
Now she is all worry and apprehension and propriety.
6.Hetahen- of or relating to heathens, their religious, or their customs
That my daughter and my niece I discovered dancing like heathens in the forest?
7.Ails- to give physical or emotional pain, discomfort, or trouble to
What ails you, Betty?
8.Hypocrisy- the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion
It is another trait we inherited from them, and it has helped to discipline us as well as to breed hypocrisy among us.
9.Coenanted- a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement
I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men!
10.Fathom- a unit of length equal to six feet used especially for measuring the depth of water
I cannot fathom that.
