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The Crucible Vocab
English
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |