'The Devil and Tom Walker' Terms / Vocabulary

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What do the words mean in "The Devil and Tom Walker"? How does Washington Irving use vocabulary terms to dramatize the legend of Tom Walker? Here are vocabulary words to study and discuss.

• articulate
• avarice
• balk
• censure
• consecrate
• daunt
  
  
• expedient
• forbearance
• impregnable
• incantation
• melancholy
• ostentatious
• parsimony
• piety
• precarious
• prevalent
• propitious
• prostration
• refuge
• resolute
• superfluous