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The Crucible Vocab

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Abomination noun - something extremely disgusting or hated
Ascertain verb - to find out or learn with certainty; to discover
Bemused adj - confusded; engrossed in thought
Calumny noun - a false statement maliciously made to injure another reputation - slander
Conjure verb - to summon a devil or spirit by incantation
Dissemble verb - to give a false or misleading appearance; to conceal the truth or the real nature
Heathen noun - irreligious uncultured, uncivilized
Inculcate verb - to implant by repeated statement or admonition
Insoluble adj - incapable or beng solved or explained
Intimations noun - indirect suggestions; vague understanding; hints
Junta noun - council or committee for political/governmental purposes; small group of people who rule = sometimes without authority
Lascivious adj - arousing sexual desire; inclined to lustfulness
Laxity noun - quality or state of being loose or open leniency
Lechery noun - unrestrained or indulgence of sexual desire;
Paradox noun - a seemingly contradictory statement that may none the less be true
Predilection noun - a preference
Pretense noun - a false showing of something; act of pretending
Probity noun - integrity; honesty; uprightness
Prodigious adj - extraordinary in size, amount, degree
Propitiation noun - something that appeases or satisfies a demand
Reprieve noun - a delay from an impending punishment
Sibilance adj - characterized by a hissing sound
Subservient subordinate
Villainous adj - having a cruel wicked, malicious nature
Vindictive adj - dispose or inclined to revenge
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