These words are synonyms because they have similar meanings
I think it is thrill!!
definitely not score or strike cause that's like something you would say about soccer or something and i don't think it's power!
A. The speaker is saying that she and her peers should be allowed to handle the punishments for people like Hester Prynne. She thinks this because they would band together as a group and be all on the same page in their punishment, rather than leaving it up to the magistrate--whose punishment she does not think adequately fit the crime Hester committed.
