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English III
The Crucuible Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abrogate | To abloish; to do away with |
| Abyss | Bottomless hole; a vast expanse or depth |
| Adamant | Inflexile; immovable; obstinate |
| Ameliorate | To make better; to relieve; to improve |
| Augury | An omen or prophecy |
| Autocrat | A person with unlimited influence and authority |
| Baseness | The quality of lacking higher values |
| Begrudge | To give relunctantly; to envy a possession of one's enjoyment |
| Beguile | To decieve; to mislead; to persuade with charm |
| Bemuse | To confuse; to bewilder |
| Blasphemous | Irreverent; profane |
| Calamity | A serious event causing distress or misfortune |
| Conciliate | To reconcile; to pacify |
| Confound | To cause one to become confused |
| Contempt | Scorn; extreme dislike |
| Contentious | Quarrelsome; stirring controversy |
| Corroboration | Confirmation |
| Credulous | Believeing on slight evidence |
| Defamation | Act of harming or ruining another's reputation |
| Deference | Courteous going along with opinions or wishes of another |
| Dissemble | To disguise; to pretend |
| Dogmatic | Strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner |
| Ecstasy | Extreme happiness |
| Effrontery | Extreme boldness; audacity |
| Exalt | To glorify; to praise |
| Formidable | Menacing; causing fear or awe |
| Gaunt | Too thin; emaciated; angular |
| Heretical | Contrary to church doctrine or accepted beliefs |
| Hypocrite | One who is insincere or deceitful |
| Indigenous | Native to a certain area |
| Ineptness | lack of competence or judgement |
| Inert | Unable to move; sluggish; lazy |
| Ingratiate | To make an effort to gain good favor with someone |
| Innate | Existing from born |
| Junta | A group of people who join in running a government |
| Licentious | lacking moral or sexual restraint; wanton |
| Malevolence | Evil intentions or ill will |
| Malign | To utter injuriously, misleading reports about |
| Methodical | Proceeding in a regular or systematic order |
| Orthodox | Conforming to established standards; conventional |
| Pallor | Extreme paleness usually relating to the face |
| Paradoxical | Somehing that appears false or contradictory but is correct |
| Parochial | Limited in range or scope; narrow; provincial |
| Partisan | One who wxhibits extreme or possibly blind allegiance to a group |
| Placid | Peacful |
| Predilection | Preference |
| Prodigious | Extraordinary in bulk, quantity,or degree |
| Propriety | Correct conduct |
| Prudent | Wise and careful |
| Quake | To shake from shock or instability |
| Reproach | To blame for something |
| Rescind | To cancel |
| Resurge | To rise again |
| Savory | Appetizing |
| Sectarian | A member of a sect that is faction with extreme beliefs |
| Sublime | Exalted; noble; uplifting |
| Trepidation | Fear; trembling; agitation |
| Vindictive | Revengul; spiteful |
| Wily | Cunning; crafty |
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