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Crucibles Vocab
| Question | |
|---|---|
| Fraction | A party or group (as within a government) that is often contentious or self-seeking |
| corroborate | to support with evidence or authority |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation |
| Ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| predilection | an established preference for something |
| pallor | deficiency of color especially of the face |
| Daft | Silly, foolish, mad, and insane |
| providence | divine guidance or care or God conceived as the power sustaining and guiding human destiny |
| magistrate | a principal official exercising governmental powers over a major political unit (such as a nation) |
| falter | to walk unsteadily : stumble |