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Read this excerpt from chapter 2 of the scarlet letter. Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders at the scaffold. On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself. Which best describes the purpose of the words "meagre," "scaffold," "stern," and "punishment of death"?.

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'The Scarlet Letter' is a supernatural thriller novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the novel, the words meager, stern, and scaffold impart a judgmental disapproving mood.

What is in chapter 2, of the novel?

In chapter 2 of 'The Scarlet Letter,' a crowded place is portrayed where Hester Prynne holding a baby emerges from the prison door and is seen moving towards the scaffold to get reprimanded because she gave birth to an illegitimate daughter.

The words, "meager," "scaffold," "stern," and "punishment of death" are used to show the judgemental perspective of the people of the town. The approach of the people towards her showed their prudish nature.

Therefore, the words show a judgemental mood.

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