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The Crucible Vocab

The crucible

QuestionAnswer
Calumny a false and slanderous statement
Blink overlook, evade
Disentle to conceal one's true motives or thoughts often by giving a false or misleading appearance
Licentious morally loose or unrestrained
Crucible a vessel used for melting materials that requires a high degree of heat; a severe test or trial, a place or situation in which concentrated forces interact to cause or influence change or development
Predilection a strong preference or liking for something
Ingratiate bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them
Prodigious unnatural or abnormal
Begrudge to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of someone else; to be reluctant to allow
Goody (proper noun)a term meaning Mrs, a title for a married woman, short for- “Goodwife”
Pallor paleness
Poppet a small doll
Ameliorate to make better or more tolerable
Daft mad, insane
Effrontery shamelessness, boldness
Qualm a misgiving; a feeling of uneasiness about a point of conscience or propriety
Probity honesty, integrity, adherence to the highest principles and ideals
Manifest evidence; appearance; sign
Base degrading; contemptuous
Slovenly messy, careless
Conciliatory eager to make peace, to reconcile
Beguile deceive by guile or deceit
Floundering proceeding or acting clumsily or ineffectually
Adamant unyielding, unshakable or immovable
Sibilance a hissing sound
Created by: a.n.
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